Köpenicker Blues und Jazz Festival

The Kopenicker Blues and Jazz Festival takes place every year since 1996 in the summer months in Berlin- Köpenick. It lasts from late June to late August, making it the longest Berlin Jazz Festival. Around two thousand soloists, instrumentalists, national and international stars were presented from 1996 to 2007 and provided for an ever increasing number of visitors. At the 12th Festival in the summer of 2007, the 125,000 visitors were welcomed.

Initiator and organizer Wolfgang Pinzl, the operator of Köpenick Council cellar. The jazz expert Karlheinz Drechsel acts since 1996 as a patron. At ten summer weekends, from Friday to Sunday, the courtyard of the city hall of Köpenick transformed into a concert venue, which can accommodate more than seven hundred visitors.

The total of thirty concerts are traditionally opened with the Louis Armstrong Memorial Five. The band around Tim Mohn was founded on the occasion of the first festival and has specialized in the early creative period of Louis Armstrong. Regular contact local stars on, inter alia, Uschi Brüning and Manfred Krug, both already with Klaus Lenz stood together in the 1970s on the stage. Also Axel Zwingenberger, the master of boogie piano, Mr. Acker Bilk, Klaus Doldinger with his band Passport or Jocelyn B. Smith repeatedly occur in Köpenick. Blue Friends are annually loaded from the Jonathan Blues Band for "East Blues Session ". A special highlight is the street festival in the old town of Köpenick on the opening weekend. On four stages is offered three days nonstop jazz, blues, boogie and Dixieland.