Music will be taken to the masses when top national and international artists perform live on public stages in Queenstown, Frankton and Arrowtown during the 2010 ASB Queenstown JazzFest over Labour weekend.
Promotion for the 32nd annual festival intensified this week with the distribution of the pocket-sized programme, which features the line-up of more than 150 Wakatipu, national and international artists. They will perform at more than 50 gigs over five days.
Community stages will be set up on Queenstown's Village Green and Earnslaw Park, Remarkables Park's Town Centre and on Buckingham Green in Arrowtown between October 21 and 25.
The Daniel Gassin Trio, avant garde three-piece Pan Francis and Mike Frost and the Icemen with Mojo Webb will be among the artists playing free lunchtime concerts.
Wakatipu High School ensemble Best Served Chilled, along with Jeff Bradley and the Delta Swing, will close the festival on the Village Green.
The More FM Jazz Village main stage in the centre of Queenstown will return, "and we take the jazz on tour with travelling spotlight stages, so if people can't come to us then we'll just come to them", JazzFest Trust chairman Luke Baldock said.
