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Jazz in Marciac

music festival in Marciac

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ266260 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jazz in Marciac (JIM) is an annual jazz festival that takes place in Marciac, Occitania, France. The festival takes place over a period of three weeks, usually from late July to mid-August. The first festival took place in 1978.

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“Jazz in Marciac” enters the record as music festival in Marciac. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jazz, Marciac and music can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jazz, Marciac and music.
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“Jazz in Marciac” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jazz, Marciac and music provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q266260. VIAF identifies the subject as 127967484. The Library of Congress control number is n89636144. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1978.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jazz in Marciac” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.