The Monterey Jazz Festival is the world´s oldest running jazz festival. The two-day and three-night celebration brings together 43,000 fans to listen to over 500 world-renowned jazz artists perform on eight stages across the Monterey Fairgrounds. Slide on over for a soulful time.
Harvest some fun at the Old Monterey Market. Discover a marketplace covering three-and-a-half city blocks, that runs year-round come rain or shine. Gather baskets full of certified organic produce from vendors that come from all over California. In addition to produce, you can shop for handmade crafts and art treasures that come from around the world.
Zoom Zoom! Speed over to the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey to watch Motorcycle Grand Prix and AMA Superbike racing. Discover a Monterey tradition and attraction that started with a love for world-class racing on the inaugural running of the Pebble Beach Road Races in 1950. Those sports events outgrew public roads and laid the tracks in 1957 for today´s racing facility.