The Tanglewood Jazz Festival, is a summer music festival, featuring contemporary jazz artists. It is held every year on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of Labor Day weekend. It has been held for approximatelt ten years now, at Tanglewood, which is a beautiful outdoor festival grounds, and the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, during June, July, and August, and given over to the jazz festival on the final weekend of the season. It is located in Lenox, Massachusetts. Artists who have appeared in the past include Diana Krall, Winton Marsalis, Natalie Cole, Ahmad Jamal, Nancy Wilson, Roy Haynes, Roy Hargrove, Jimmy Smith, Freddy Hubbard, Ray Charles, and many more.
Tanglewood, a music venue located in Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts, has been the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home since 1937.
In addition to hosting world-renowned programs of classical, jazz, and popular music, it also provides musical training in the form of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) for high school students and the Tanglewood Music Center for preprofessional musicians.
Tanglewood was named by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, who moved to a small house named Tanglewood Cottage, in Lenox, Massachusetts in March 1850, on the advice of his publisher William Ticknor.
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