Moers Festival

Moers Festival
2004
Genre	Jazz
Dates	Whitsun
Location(s)	Moers, Germany
Coordinates	51°27′33″N 6°37′11″E / 51.45917°N 6.61972°E / 51.45917; 6.61972
Years active	1972–present
Founders	Burkhard Hennen
Attendance	40,000
Website	moers-festival.de/en

The Moers Festival is an annual international music festival in Moers, Germany. The festival has changed from concentrating on free jazz to including world and pop music, though it still invites many avant-garde jazz musicians. Performers at Moers include Lester Bowie, Fred Frith, Jan Garbarek, Herbie Hancock, Abdullah Ibrahim, David Murray, Sun Ra, Archie Shepp, and Cecil Taylor. The festival is officially named "mœrs festival" with lowercase letters.