National Youth Jazz Festival

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The National Youth Jazz Festival runs as party of the National Arts Festival also known as the Grahamstown Festival which has been running in Grahamstown since 1974, and is the world's second-largest single cultural festival,^{[citation needed]} attracting performers in all art forms from around South Africa and all over the world.

It attracts a heterogeneous audience of over 140 000^{[citation needed]} 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 such as school and church and community halls. The National Youth Jazz Festival takes place on the campus of the Diocesan School for Girls, Grahamstown.