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Tauranga Jazz Festival, 2004

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Tauranga Jazz Festival, 2004

The Tauranga Jazz Festival, which has been an annual event since 1962, is the longest running jazz festival in the southern hemisphere and the longest running consecutive single-venue jazz festival in the world. This photograph from the 2004 festival shows a street performance.

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Chris Bourke, Jazz and dance bands – Later 20th and early 21st centuries, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2066/tauranga-jazz-festival-2004 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Chris Bourke, published 3 March 2009.