Fest'OFF 2025
From July 2 to July 27, 2025
The Fest'OFF is a multitude of creative, original and festive events that reflect the values and identity of the Nice Jazz Fest!
Nearly 100 artists will take over the streets of downtown Nice and the Metropole, bringing a vibrant mix of New Orleans jazz, soul, funk, rock, ska, hip-hop... and many other unexpected surprises!
Le Piano du Lac
2, 9, 16 and 23 July from 8pm
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
The piano du lac criss-crosses the landscape, offering a floating show from evening to evening. Residents and travelers are invited to settle down along the banks or quays to enjoy this poetic moment. A magical moment in an exceptional setting.
Musical strolling visible from restaurant terraces and from the upper terraces of the port.
Free performance.
Ouiches Lorenes
12 and 13 July at 7pm
Lantosque & La Trinité
Ouiches Lorènes are little gastro-acoustic tarts that you really mustn't eat: you just slip them in your ears to make your stomach churn! With a taste of ska and New Orleans, with real bits of funk and a pinch of punk, they'll surprise grown-ups and get the kids up on their feet... or the other way round. Chef's advice: shake vigorously during use. An original rhythm section combining bass drum, snare drum, sub-bassophone and banjo is supported by an inexhaustible brass section: trombones, trumpets and saxophones gone wild.
Program
- Saturday, July 12: Lantosque
- Sunday, July 13: La Trinité
Les Fo' Plafonds
19 July at 7.30pm
Nice - Place du Palais de Justice
Welcome to rue Eugène Poubelle - a street that, at first glance, seems quite ordinary!
And yet... listen carefully. Can you hear it? Here, everything is music! Everything is in tune, everything is transformed. The street and its elements take on a second life - sometimes even a third! Nothing is thrown away, everything is reclaimed: that's how instruments are born.
A nod from the NJF to the year 2025, marked by the protection of seas and oceans, and by collective intelligence to rethink our modes of consumption!
Let yourself be carried away by this second-hand orchestra, passionate about fair recovery. Noise becomes sound, sound becomes note, note becomes rhythm.
Open your ears wide and let them lose themselves in this joyful musical jumble... while your eyes are deceived by sounds that are too often ignored.
Are you ready? Then don't hesitate: enter their world!
90 minutes of musical entertainment - 8 rag-pickers - All ages - Free!
Desmadre Orkestra
19, 20, 22, 23 and 24 July
Saint Martin Vésubie, Roquebillière, Belvédère & Nice
Desmadre Orkesta is a festive, eclectic bundle of energy straight from Argentina!
The band will take you on a musical journey through Balkan brass, Colombian colours, cumbias tinged with New Orleans-style swing, and milongas with a Buenos Aires flavour.
Buoyed by the power of its brass section, the band offers popular melodies that are both rooted in tradition and brilliantly reinvented, with touches of virtuosity and chiselled arrangements.
But music is only the starting point: Desmadre Orkesta is also about dance, movement, interaction and a mad desire to share. The result is an explosive, joyous and generous show that leaves audiences with a smile on their face and a festive heart!
Program
- Saturday 19 July: 12pm - Saint Martin Vésubie
- Saturday 19 July: 7pm - Roquebillière
- Sunday 20 July: 11.30am-12.15pm - Marché de la Libération (Nice)
- Sunday 20 July: 8pm - Belvédère
- Tuesday 22 July: 11am-11.30am - Marché de la Libération (Nice)
- Tuesday 22 July: 6pm-6.30pm - Place Masséna (Nice)
- Tuesday 22 July: 7.45pm-8.15pm - Pedestrian precint (Nice)
- Wednesday 23 July: 6pm-6.30pm - Place Masséna (Nice)
- Wednesday 23 July: 7pm-7.30pm - Pedestrian precinct (Nice)
- Wednesday 23 July: 8.15pm-8.45pm - Place du Pin (Nice)
- Thursday 24 July: 5.15pm - 5.45pm - Place Masséna (Nice)
- Thursday 24 July: 6.30pm-7pm & 7.45pm-8.15pm - Saleya-Place du Palais de Justice (Nice)
Lazcar Volcano
19, 20, 22, 23 and 24 July
Nice, Saint André de la Roche, Eze & La Gaude
Another fine example of artistic vitality, far removed from fixed formats and cultural boundaries, with this group that has no qualms about mixing traditional songs with contemporary urban rhythms.
It's a veritable alchemy of sound, born of a daring blend: a bit of sand from the beaches of Rio, a sliver of tarmac from the 93, a handful of red earth from Lagos, a few pebbles from the Caribbean, an ounce of mud from the marshes of Louisiana, and a pearl of coral from Reunion Island…
Lazcar Volcano is unpretentious sophistication, raw delicacy, the wild and the refined, the raw and the cooked... It's everything we love about life, with its reliefs and contrasts. An eruption of dance, freedom and life!
Program
- Saturday 19 July: 8pm - Saint André de la Roche
- Sunday 20 July: 10.30am - Eze Village
- Sunday, July 20: 8pm - La Gaude
- Tuesday 22 July: 11am-11.30am - Marché de la Libération (Nice)
- Tuesday 22 July: 7-7.30pm & 8-8.30pm - Place Masséna (Nice)
- Wednesday 23 July: 6.30-7pm - Place Masséna (Nice)
- Wednesday 23 July: 7.45pm-8.15pm - Saleya-Place du Palais de Justice / Pedestrian precinct (Nice)
- Wednesday 23 July: 8.45pm-9.15pm - Place du Pin (Nice)
- Thursday 24 July: 17:45-18:15 - Place Masséna (Nice)
- Thursday 24 July: 7-7.30pm - Saleya-Place du Palais de Justice (Nice)
- Thursday 24 July: 8.45pm-9.15pm - Place du Pin (Nice)
Nojo
22, 23, 26 and 27 July
Nice
The Nice-Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) was founded in January 2020 by Imago records & production, under the artistic direction of James Andrews, a leading figure in New Orleans jazz. Made up of professional musicians as well as semi-professionals and amateurs, the band, thanks to James Andrews, perpetuates the New Orleans tradition but adds a certain French Touch thanks to the presence of a choir, which sings along with the musicians' groove.
Program
- Tuesday 22 July: 6.30-7pm - Pedestrian precinct
- Tuesday 22 July: 7.30-8pm - Saleya-Place du Palais de Justice
- Tuesday 22 July: 8.30-9pm - Place Masséna
- Wednesday 23 July: 11am-11.30am - Marché de la Libération
- Wednesday 23 July: 17:45-18:15 - Saleya-Place du Palais de Justice
- Wednesday 23 July: 7.30-8pm - Pedestrian precinct
- Saturday 26 July: 7.15pm-8pm - Pedestrian precinct
- Saturday 26 July: 8.30pm-9.15pm - Saleya-Place du Palais de Justice
- Sunday 27 July: 11am-11.30am - Marché de la Libération
- Sunday 27 July: 7pm-7.30pm - Place du Pin
- Sunday 27 July: 8-8.30pm - Saleya-Place du Palais de Justice
Radio Kaizman
23, 24 and 25 July
Nice
Somewhere between the musical bubbling of New Orleans, the psychedelic dimensions of rock and the urban crackle of hip-hop, Radio Kaizman, led by its singer and rapper, will take you into an unprecedented trance.
Ultra-hot riffs, hypnotic drums, throbbing, energetic brass underpinning a razor-sharp flow, the band's recipe is to bring brass band and hip-hop together in a unique, shared story.
Program
- Wednesday 23 July: 11.30am-12.15pm - Marché de la Libération
- Wednesday 23 July: 7pm-7.45pm - Place Masséna
- Thursday 24 July: 6.15pm-7pm - Pedestrian precinct
- Thursday 24 July: 7.45pm-8.30pm - Saleya-Place du Palais de Justice
- Friday 25 July: 7pm-7.45pm - Place du Pin
- Friday 25 July: 8.45pm-9.30pm - Saleya-Place du Palais de Justice
Beatboxmaton
24, 25, 26 and 27 July: 12.30-2pm / 5.15-6.15pm / 6.45-8.15pm
Miroir d'eau (fixe) - Nice
A participatory musical installation open to all!
The Beatboxmaton is like a photo booth... but for the sounds! Step into the booth, follow the instructions and have fun recording your best human beatbox sounds.
All the sounds collected are then mixed to form a 100% vocal, original and collaborative musical creation.
Outside, two screens allow the public to follow the creation of the piece live, and to cheer on the most inspired participants.
And to extend the experience, the tracks can be downloaded via a dedicated application.
Factoria Circular
24, 25, 26 and 27 July
Nice
Rodafonio is an invention that has completely transformed the street theatre and music scene in Barcelona, Spain.
Created by designer and musician César Alvarez Bayer, the attraction consists of a giant wheel 4 metres high and 15 centimetres thick.
The wheel is home to the five musicians of the Catalan group Factoria Circular. Three musicians sit on the wheel in their respective metal circles, playing their musical instruments: guitar, saxophone and a set of drums, sometimes spinning inside the giant wheel.
The other two members are actors who pedal the moving wheel, bringing the enormous mechanical structure to life.
The musical show lets you combine the principles of geometry and music.
Never before have mathematical formulae and scores been combined with the intention of creating a similar spectacle.
Program
- Thursday 24 July: 6.15pm-7pm & 7.30pm-8.15pm - Place Masséna
- Friday 25 July: 6.15pm-7pm - Place Masséna
- Friday 25 July: 8-8.45pm - Pedestrian precinct
- Saturday 26 July: 17h30-18h15 - Espace Miroir d'eau-Médecin
- Saturday 26 July: 7.30-8.15pm - Place Masséna
- Sunday 27 July: 17:15-18:00 - Espace Miroir d'eau-Médecin
- Sunday 27 July: 7.15pm-8pm - Place Masséna
Imperial Kikiristan
24, 25, 26 and 27 July
Nice
Always with the street as a privileged space, with no ties and no electricity, Orchestre Imperial Kikiristan condenses the best of its know-how, born of 10 years of musical peregrinations. Interaction, choreography, humour, music, song and dance, from tightly-crafted tableaux to total improvisation, frenetic solos, serenades or the search for new members, our folk group on the move is at the service of all kinds of events in an acoustic formula with multiple accents.
From Beirut to Bogota, Romania to northern Russia, the band has played at festivals of all shapes and sizes.
There have already been over 1,000 performances in more than 30 countries,
are not imaginary.
Program
- Thursday 24 July: 6.30pm-7.15pm - Saleya-Place du Palais de Justice
- Wednesday 23 July: 7pm-7.45pm - Place Masséna
- Friday 25 July: 11.30am-12.15pm - Marché de la Libération
- Friday 25 July: 7.15pm-8pm - Place Masséna
- Saturday 26 July: 6pm-6.45pm - Saleya-Place du Palais de Justice
- Saturday 26 July: 7.30-8.15pm - Place du Pin
- Sunday 27 July: 6.30-7.15pm - Place Masséna
- Sunday 27 July: 8-8.45pm - Pedestrian precinct
Gipsy Pigs Fissa Papa
24 and 25 July
Nice
La Fafara Fissa Papa
Their musical credo: traditional cumbias, jazzy hits in ska, calypso and caliente rock versions, covers of well-known or outdated songs in festive versions: ‘On nous cache tout’ (J. Dutronc) Rage Against The Machine style, ‘Rum and Coca-cola’ (Andrews Sisters), ‘Ya mustapha’ or classic tunes revisited in Latin versions: ‘Gnossienne n°1’, ‘Lettre à élise’ and many more in preparation in their secret studio!
Program
- Thursday 24 July: 11.30am–12.00pm – Marché de la Libération
- Thursday 24 July: 7.00pm–7.30pm – Place Masséna
- Thursday 24 July: 8.30pm–9.00pm – Pedestrian precinct
- Friday 25 July: 7.45pm–8.30pm – Place du Pin
- Friday 25 July: 9.15pm–10.00pm – Saleya–Place du Palais de Justice
Poboys
24, 25, 26 and 27 July
Nice, Ilonse & La Roquette sur Var
In 2016, the Po’Boys set off for New Orleans, the birthplace of Afro-American music, where they met and worked with some of the biggest names in the local brass band scene: Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Hot 8 Brass Band, Stooges Brass Band, and the legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
A living symbol of Louisiana, brass bands — ensembles combining percussion and brass instruments — set the rhythm of local life. Funerals, carnivals, sporting events, community celebrations, or political gatherings: they are present at every moment of social life.
Beyond the music, they embody values of solidarity and collective pride. You’ll find them in the streets, restaurants, jazz clubs, parks... the celebration is everywhere.
It's in this musical whirlwind that the Po'Boys immerse themselves in a rich cultural mix of French heritage, Afro-American traditions and Caribbean influences.
Program
- Thursday 24 July: 11.00am–11.30am – Marché de la Libération
- Thursday 24 July: 7.15pm–7.45pm – Pedestrian precinct
- Thursday 24 July: 8.30pm–9.00pm – Saleya–Place du Palais de Justice
- Friday 25 July: 11.00am–11.30am – Marché de la Libération
- Friday 25 July: 7.30pm–8.00pm – Pedestrian precinct
- Friday 25 July: 8.45pm–9.15pm – Place du Pin
- Saturday 26 July: 11.45am–12.30pm – Marché de la Libération
- Saturday 26 July: 8.00pm – Ilonse
- Sunday 27 July: 11.30am–12.15pm – Marché de la Libération
- Sunday 27 July: 8.00pm – La Roquette sur Var
Le gros tube
26 and 27 July
Nice
In 2004, Le Gros Tube was formed by musicians passionate about the brass bands of New Orleans (Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Rebirth Brass Band, Hot 8...) and inspired by those who paved the way in France, such as Ceux Qui Marchent Debout and Uranus Bruyant.
Le Gros Tube never misses a chance to ignite the stages, cafés, streets, and festivals they visit, getting even the shyest to move! Led by a singer-flutist, this high-energy brass band takes the audience on a journey through original compositions blending fun, jazz, funk, rock, hip hop, reggae, and afrobeat with an acoustic twist.
Program
- Saturday 26 July: 11.00am–11.45am – Marché de la Libération
- Saturday 26 July: 6.45pm–7.30pm – Place Masséna
- Saturday 26 July: 8.15pm–9.00pm – Place du Pin
- Sunday 27 July: 5.45pm–6.30pm – Place Masséna
- Sunday 27 July: 7.30pm-8.15pm - Pedestrian precinct
- Sunday 27 July: 8.45pm-9.30pm - Saleya-Place Palais de Justice
Fest'OFF Students
22 June and 8 July
Nice
WYOMING AMBASSADORS OF MUSIC
The Wyoming Ambassadors of Music are made up of music students selected from all over the state of Wyoming. Since 1994, this organisation has been taking Wyoming music students to European destinations twice a year, with the aim of sharing music and discovering the art, culture, history, food and languages of Europe.
The students are all aged between 14 and 19 and are part of their own secondary school music programme. They have toured in England, France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Italy, Slovenia and Germany.
- Sunday 22 June: 4pm - KAM
PHILADELPHIA JAZZ ORCHESTRA
The Philadelphia Jazz Orchestra is a Big Band made up of the best jazz musicians from the high schools and colleges of Philadelphia and New Jersey.
The orchestra is conducted by Maestro Joe Bongiovi, and as well as performing in the United States and Europe, they tour Italy every year.
This year's young talents will perform in various cities from 06 to 19 July: Sanremo, Nice, JAZZ FESTIVAL in Genoa, Montecatini, UMBRIA JAZZ in Perugia, Bolsena, Proceno, Carbognano, Ronciglione and Rome.
- Tuesday 8 July: 7pm - Miroir d'eau