Preparations for the 43rd in 2025 are underway

The committee is back in action and we're starting our preparations for the 2025 Merimbula Jazz Festival. In the next few weeks we aim to have more information and we very much look forward to welcoming you all in Merimbula in June 2025. The Merimbula Jazz Festival is more than a music festival, bringing together musicians in our beautiful town to play jazz, but also bringing together long-term friends, with the opportunity to make new ones through a shared love of jazz. We encourage younger musicians to be part of the festival and delight in hearing their interpretations of works, old and new.

"The Merimbula Jazz Festival is unique for its welcoming encouragement of young musicians. Bands like us play to real audiences in real venues and are made part of the community of jazz musicians and fans that make the MJF so special and so enduring. Where other festivals exclude young bands or shunt them off to an obscure ‘youth stage’, the MJF includes and respects the future of jazz – not just some cherry-picked ‘stars’, but everybody."

Saul Richardson, Jazz Workshop Australia

"I have been attending the Merimbula Jazz Festival for 38 years, about 30 as a musician.  I just wanted to congratulate you on the registration process leading up to the Festival.  The online registration was very straight forward and easy.  Also, when I contact a member of the Committee about something, the response was quick and most satisfactory, this made me feel valued as a musician supporting the Festival. I wish the Committee all the best for the 2025 Festival and sincerely thank you for your hard work on putting on the 2024 Festival.  We have already made plans to come back again."

Bill Lawler

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We very much look forward to seeing you all in paradise for the 43rd Festival

Denise Dion
President