The Tórshavn Jazz Festival or the Torshavn Jazz, Folk, and Blues Festival is an annual music festival

Music festival

A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...

 held in the month of August in the city of Tórshavn

Tórshavn

Tórshavn is the capital and largest town of the Faroe Islands. It is located in the southern part on the east coast of Streymoy. To the north west of the town lies the high mountain Húsareyn, and to the southwest, the high Kirkjubøreyn...

, capital of the Faroe Islands

Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland...

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The festival attracts musicians from all over North America

North America

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 and Europe

Europe

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 for a week of jamming. Since its first festival in 1983, the Tórshavn Jazz Festival has been celebrated with posters designed by a Faroese or Nordic artist

Musicians such as Faroese-Canadian Lena Anderssen

Lena Anderssen

Lena Anderssen is a Faroese-Canadian singer-songwriter best known for her award winning album "Let Your Scars Dance." Although the lyrics to her songs are all written in English, she is also fluent in both Faroese and Danish.-Early career:...

are regular performers at the festival.