Dixieland

Dixieland or Dixie is a name for the south-eastern portion of the USA; see: U.S. Southern States, Dixie. This article is about the musical genre.

Festivals

• In Dresden, Germany, Dixieland is the name of Europe's biggest international Jazz festival. 500,000 visitors celebrate it mainly on the river. A smaller festival, called "Riverboat Jazz festival" is held annually in the picturesque danish town, Silkeborg.
• In the US, the largest traditional jazz festival is held in Sacramento CA annually on Memorial Day Weekend, with about 100,000 visitors and about 150 bands from all over the world. Other smaller festivals and jazz parties arose in the late 1960s as the Rock revolution displaced many of the jazz nightclubs.