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| The Finnish Jazz Federation
(FJF) founded in September 1966,
is a non-profit umbrella organization
for over 40 local jazz societies
which altogether have about
4,000 individual members of their
own. FJF promotes and supports
Finnish jazz home and abroad.
The FJF supports its member societies
mainly by organizing 10 subsidized
tours, including about 80
concerts, annually, also by giving
travel support as well as helping
and instructing the active people
running the local societies. In one
of the tours called Free Voices and
Sounds (Voix et sons libres) a
Finnish and a French band gives
double billed concerts together,
this is co-produced with producer
Charles Gil. One tour goes to the
annual Sony Jazz Prize winner.
The FJF also organizes, every July,
the one month long Jazz-Espa-festival,
an annual series of 20 free
open-air concerts at 'Espa Stage' in
Esplanade Park, in the very heart
of the city of Helsinki.
The Finnish National Jazz Days
(Valtakunnalliset Jazzpäivät) is an
event that gathers together all the
members of the federation, held
during each November. The Jazz
Days include the formal annual
meeting of the federation and the
announcement of the annual
Georgie Award winner, the Jazz
Musician of the Year, chosen by
FJF.
The FJF takes part each year in
YNJC -the Young Nordic Jazz
Comets contest.
The annual budget year 2005 is
415 080 euros.
The main source of income
(55,4%) is the annual support of
the Ministry of Education.
Other significant supporters are
The Finnish Music Promotion
Centre ESEK, and the City of
Helsinki.
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