Lonato Festival Jazz

Jazz arrives in Lonato del Garda

Every year, at the beginning of September, Lonato Festival Jazz enlivens the heart of Lonato del Garda, in the province of Brescia, with three evenings dedicated to jazz music. The festival has chosen the charming Piazzetta Vittorio Emanuele II in the historic centre of the lakeside town as its home, a space that becomes a small open-air club as evening falls.

A quality programme

The festival is the result of a collaboration between the Municipality of Lonato del Garda and the Caligola Association, a Veneto-based organisation with extensive experience in producing and promoting jazz. The result is a programme that alternates established names on the national scene with young talents, ranging from piano solo to big bands, from sophisticated improvisation to jazz with a broader, more melodic scope.

Each evening features a different concert, designed to offer a varied overview of styles and languages: a formula that has won over both enthusiasts and those approaching this genre for the first time, also thanks to the completely free admission.

Music and territory

Lonato Festival Jazz is much more than just a music festival: it's an opportunity to experience the historic centre of Lonato in one of its most charming guises, through the alleys and squares of the town, a short distance from Lake Garda and its hills. The event is part of a rich calendar of summer events that the Municipality dedicates to music, culture, and entertainment, and it represents one of the most anticipated events of the late Garda summer.

If you love jazz and are looking for a different kind of evening on Lake Garda, the September evenings in Lonato are an invitation to sit in the piazza, let yourself be carried away by the notes, and discover a corner of Lombardy that knows how to make itself heard.