EUROPAfest

This year's EUROPAfest festival will take place between July 16 - 25 in Bucharest, Sibiu and Sinaia, producer of international music events jmEvents announced in a release on Wednesday. "We are optimistic, and even if it will be an atypical edition, the music events will be at the same quality standards the public has already become accustomed to.

Over 300 musicians from 31 countries will take part in Bucharest and Sibiu, May 9-18, in the 26th edition of EUROPAfest, the only European festival that incorporates jazz, blues and pop music, according to organisers.

This year's edition of the EUROPAfest will kick off, as a first, with two opening concerts to take place in the same evening in Bucharest, where Finnish band Turn On will perform, and in Sibiu, where Japanese piano player Momoka Masuda will take to the stage.

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Twenty-two bands from 21 countries all around the world are to perform live next month in Bucharest in EUROPAfest, one of the most important jazz festivals in Eastern Europe.