On these pages you will find practical information, helpful tips for those planning your festival visit and some nice-to-know about Kongsberg. Click on what you want to know more about the menu on the left – and ask / Tips us if there is any info you miss these pages: Send an email tokine@kongsberg-jazzfestival.no. So you will help both us and future festival goers!

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SOME GOOD LINKS WE RECOMMEND (sorted alphabetically):

All About Jazz – the world's largest website for jazz
All Music Guide – rich encyclopedia of music nerds
Amnesty International - important partner for the festival

Ballade - recommended site for those who want to know more about the Norwegian music scene than the VG-lista
Just Jazz – great record store in Oslo with a clear definition of the product range
Ticket Service - billettbua our, and most others
Buskerud County – important partner for the festival

Downbeat - brilliant American jazz magazine, among the largest in the world
Dølajazz - recommended Lillehammer Festival in late summer

Energy Mill – great cultural center in the city without culture
Ethnic Music Club - diverse record provider
Itum - festival's IT partner
Jazzfests.net – excellent overview of the hundreds of jazz festivals

Jazzland Recordings – one of the nation's few really good labels
JazzTimes – among the world's greatest jazz magazines

Kongsberg Links – recommended path 10 minutes outside of downtown
Kongsbergnett - new and useful information about Kongsberg
Kongsberg kommune have a lot of useful info

Laagendalsposten - festival partner and savvy local newspaper
Lågdalsmuseet - museum and the museum, animals 5 minutes from downtown

MaiJazz - Stavanger's pride
Molde Jazz Festival - Largest

Night Jazz - highly commended jazz festival in Bergen
Norwegian Mining Museum – important festival partner and history manager
Norwegian Film Institute – Jazz festival's Film Partner
Norwegian Council – Norwegian music life – and festival – biggest supporter
Norwegian Jazz Forum - Norwegian jazz’ common voice
Notodden Blues Festival – Scandinavia's blues center “right over the hill”
NRK – best jazz in the Norwegian broadcast media

Oslo Jazz Festival - capital jazz festival in August with a varied and wide application

Rune Grammofon – one of the nation's few really good labels

Sildajazz - Haugesund's biggest festival; broad program with a lot of traditional jazz
Smalltown Supersound/ Superjazz – one of the nation's few really good labels
Sofa – label still end up under the program committee Loupe.
Sølvbyen - Kongsberg Food Association and Chamber of Commerce

Visit Kongsberg - Kongsberg Tourist Service's pages
Your Jazz - the season's first of the important Norwegian jazz festivals during the Easter weekend.