Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival launches GoFundMe appeal.

Sunday, June 01, 2025

In the light of funding cuts Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival has launched a GoFundMe campaign to help finance the 41st edition, scheduled for 18th -27th July 2025.

We have received the following information;

Support The Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival

For every one of the last 40 years, The Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival has been the highlight of this region’s festival attractions, the only event determined enough to continue to present a free live music programme through both of those Covid years.

In 2024, the festival’s 40th edition, Birmingham City Council found themselves unable to provide any financial support as they had done for the previous 39 years. Nevertheless, against all the odds we presented 239 performances, 230 of them free admission in 120 venues over 10 days, attracting a total audience of nearly 88,000.

This year the festival faces an even sterner position with our other major funder, Westside BID, unable to offer any financial support. This, combined with the lack of Birmingham City Council funding, has resulted in a total loss of £45,000 for the Festival since 2023.

We are determined to present The 41st Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival from July 18 to 27 this year, but we are forced to face the reality. If we cannot raise sufficient funding to fill the gap, then after this year the City and its residents and visitors, will lose this internationally known and respected festival.

So we have to ask your for your support to help us through these troubled times.

Your contribution, no matter how big or small, will make a difference to keep the festival going and, most importantly, to keep it growing.

Click Here for the Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival GoFundMe
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-birmingham-jazz-blues-festival?attribution_id=sl:ed03a5a8-cada-452b-a239-19c84c25a135&lang=en_GB&ts=1748431631&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_content=amp13_t1-amp14_c&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&v=amp14_c

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