The Formentera Jazz Festival celebrates its eighth season from June 2nd – 5th with a return to its pre-pandemic format and usual stages, “with the aim of connecting the public and the music industry with the nature and magic of the island through live music,” the organisers said yesterday in a press release. The stars of the FJF 2022 lineup will be Marco Mezquida, Thaïs Morell, Martín Burguez, Alexey León Reyes, The Plaza Band, the MIDI Jazz Club with former Ojos de Brujo Marinah and Tonina, who returns to the festival.
The Formentera Jazz Festival kicks off on Thursday, June 2nd at the Blue Bar with the line-up of singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music producer Thaïs Morell and her Samba Jazz ensemble.
On Friday June 3rd, the Formentera Jazz Festival will return after two years to its original stage in the Plaza de la Constitució in Sant Francesc with The Plaza Band, the formation of Tony Gartell and the musicians of the summer ‘Jazz a la plaça’, before Martin Burguez, an artist who moves between swing, jazz and rock.
On Saturday June 4th, again in the Plaza de la Constitució, the main courses will arrive. Opening the night, the proposal of Alexey León Reyes, who draws from the great masters of jazz and Latin jazz and who won the first round of the Latin Grammys in 2018 with his album ‘Cuban connection’ along with Perico Sambeat, Iván ‘Melón’ Lewis and Carlos Sarduy. This will be followed by the Menorcan pianist Marco Mezquida, with his Mediterranean jazz. Closing the night, the traditional performance by MIDI Jazz Club, a group that focuses its sound research on electronic music and that in this eighth season will have Marinah as guest of honor.
We are very excited that for this year’s edition we can once again provide an in-person Formentera Jazz Festival and return to the the Plaza de la Constitució main stage
On Sunday June 5th will come the closing, with the traditional jam session at Chezz Gerdi, but with a surprise: the artist Tonina, who already performed in the 5th edition of The Formentera Jazz Festival.
In addition to the concerts, the FJF has a series of parallel activities, which will focus on the importance of the intersection and synergies that exist between the music industry and sustainability with the masterclass ‘Music and Sustainability’ and the presentation of ‘shesaid.so Spain’, a platform to make the role of women and gender dissidence visible in the music industry.
In addition, live broadcasts will continue from different locations in the middle of nature on Formentera with their ‘Sound Connections’ – one from a cave and another from the sea- “inviting all those who are on the island to listen and observe it,” they said in the statement. In addition, on Sunday the organisers and artists will once again be collecting microplastics on Formentera’s beaches.
Quality cultural offerings
Formentera’s Vice President and Councillor for Tourism, Alejandra Ferrer, explained yesterday that the Consell “promotes this event at the beginning of the season to present visitors with a quality cultural offer, far removed from the sun and beach, and which residents can also enjoy”. In addition to the recreational side of the festival, Ferrer stressed “the awareness-raising aspect of sustainability”.
Culture councillor Susana Labrador said that “after two years of the pandemic, which has prevented a festival with concerts in the Plaza de la Constitució de Sant Francesc, we are very excited that for this year’s edition we can once again provide an in-person Formentera Jazz Festival and return to this place as the main stage.
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