Edition 2025
Finished
Music
Jazz
Blues
Jazz City Bilk Festival Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf — Kreisfreie Stadt Düsseldorf (05111)
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07 May 2025
— 11 May 2025
Edition
2025
2025
Edition 2025 — Finished
Edition 2025 — Jazz City Bilk
The second edition of the Jazz City Bilk Festival in May 2025 ran for five days again in Düsseldorf-Bilk. Over 30 events were spread across around 12 locations, the Pub Rally proved to be a crowd-puller, and the genre-diverse program attracted visitors from Düsseldorf, Cologne, Wuppertal, and Krefeld to Bilk.
The second edition in 2025 built on the successful premiere in 2024. Once again, the venues Jazz-Schmiede, Bürgersaal, Metropol cinema, Stage 47, as well as several Bilk churches, pubs, and squares transformed into a continuous festival stage. Latin, flamenco, classical jazz, and experimental improvisation sessions alternated over the five days.
The Bilker Pub Rally was again the most surprising format in 2025 — free concerts throughout Bilk's local scene attracted a young audience that wouldn't normally afford a festival pass. The festival has thus definitively established itself as an important part of Düsseldorf's cultural calendar.