When?
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No date recorded — please check with the organiser.
- Recurrence
- one-off
Where?
- Town
- Port Morris
- Region
- Randalls Island
- Country
- United States of America
- How precise?
- coordinate of the town or municipality
This position is the town's, not the festival ground's.
Details
- Status
- unclear
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Excerpt from the Wikipedia article
The Carnival of Swing was a music festival that took place on 29 May 1938 on Randall's Island, New York. It is considered the first outdoor jazz festival. Performing at the concert were twenty-five swing bands, including the Duke Ellington and Count Basie orchestras, and Stuff Smith. Though newsreel footage of the event exists, no audio recordings were thought to have survived until radio recordings known as the Savory Collection were acquired by the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article „Carnival of Swing“ (en.wikipedia.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.