Bahrija Golubović, Croatian Radio editor, 2006.Year after year, struggling with many problems, the festival has developed in extraordinary summer event with both local and international participating musicians, who's performances have refreshed Croatian jazz scene and showed how the music can connect Croatia to the world.
Croatian musicians proved once again that they can stand proudly alongside the finest international performers and thus create extraordinary international jazz orchestra.
And the most important , all of them would like to play on the festival again.
In the first weekend of July, for eleventht years in a row, Opatija will be a host to the Liburnia Jazz Festival, which, according to its level of recognition, number of concerts and visitors, is definitely the biggest jazz festival in Croatia and the region.
Jazz will be heard at six town locations. Evening concerts will take place at the Big Stage of the Open Air Theatre and Street Jazz Festival will fill your afternoons with music played live on Opatija's hotels and cafes terraces along the main street.
Lovers of the sea will have the opportunity to sail along the Opatija's coast on the JAZZ BOAT having a drink and listening to good music.
The 11th Liburnia Jazz Festival can thus announce a total of seventeen concerts on six stages.
Besides the Street Jazz Festival, six concerts will take place on the stage of the Open Air Theatre during the three Festival days.