jazzahead! teams up with its partners Knutpunkt and Semente Cultural Productions from Sweden to realize the first green jazzahead! tour ever. It features the great band „Mother“ of bandleader Athina Kontou and gives them the chance to play an international tour for the first time. A Green Pilot Tour is a tour of a single artistic project between different venues or festivals, organized by different members from the Europe Jazz Network. It is an innovative touring model based on the principles of sustainable touring and fair and balanced practices in the music sector. The format aims to help the jazz community overcome the pandemic caused disconnection, fertilize the international exchange and stand up against global climate change. Together with its partners jazzahead! steps up for sustainable touring, tries to set a good example and use this impact to promote green and sustainable conception and production of concerts.

Green Pilot Tours

With Athina Kontou a musician is promoted that has a clear opinion on environmental issues and who is known as a climate activist in the field of jazz. In 2023 she played a much praised concert at the jazzahead! showcase festival. She works with a sustainability rider in all her concerts and engages for environmental issues as well as the sustainability of cultural exchange. With her three fellow musicians Luise Volkmann, Dominik Mahnig and Lucas Leidinger she forms a colourful and lively sound body. Their debut „Tzivaeri“ was released in August 2022 on nWog-Records and was nominated for the german Critics Award (Preis der deutschen Schalplattenkritik) and the German Jazz Award (Deutscher Jazzpreis).

Athina Kontou

Dates & Tickets:

19/10 - Stockholm Jazz Festival / Semente Cultural Productions

20/10 Musik i Lerum 

21/10 Vänersborgs Musikförening 

22/10 Jazz i Halmstad 

23/10 Victoriateatern Malmö 

24/10 Jazz i Helsingborg 

25/10 Professional Music Business Meeting at GBG Utopia | Göteborg (fraisse@jazzahead.de)

26/10 L’Jazz Ljungskile