National Youth Jazz Festival
The National Arts Festival has been running in Grahamstown (Eastern Cape, South Africa www.nafest.co.za ) since 1974, and is the world’s second-largest single cultural festival, attracting performers in all art forms from around South Africa and all over the world.
It attracts a heterogeneous audience of over 140 000 from around the country, who cram into what is normally a small settler town best known for its academic and legal institutions. Performance venues are thus created in any available venue (school and church halls etc.) and accommodation is at a premium.
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