🇿🇦 Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2026

Latest edition27-28 Mar 2026

LocationCape Town, South Africa

Real-Time Online Performance (1st Showday to 5 days after last showday)

82 postsi39.7k engagementsi3.7% Real-Time ERi424.6k video viewsi38.6k likesi706 commentsi171 sharesi218 savesiSentiment: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥i

GenresJazz · Soul

Daily capacity20,000

OwnershipIndependent

LinksWebsite · Instagram (27.6k followers) · TikTok (11.7k followers)

FESTIVAL ENGAGEMENT INDEX SCORE

52.4

2026

FEI

🌎 Ranked: #98 Worldwide

🇿🇦 Ranked: #1 in South Africa

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For Real-Time Posting Volume (82)

🌎 Ranked: #116 in the World

🇿🇦 Ranked: #1 in South Africa

For Real-Time Posting Volume (82)

🌎 Ranked: #116 in the World

🇿🇦 Ranked: #1 in South Africa

For # Total Engagements (39.7k)

🌎 Ranked: #173 in the World

🇿🇦 Ranked: #1 in South Africa

For Real-Time Engagement Rate (3.7%)

🌎 Ranked: #81 in the World

🇿🇦 Ranked: #1 in South Africa

For Sentiment Rating (🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥)

🌎 Ranked: #9 in the World

🇿🇦 Ranked: #1 in South Africa

What's shaping this score?

Warmest crowd response, smallest reach

What's Working

Instagram is where Cape Town lands hardest: it turns more of its reach into reactions than the top half of Instagram accounts worldwide, and the platform met the live coverage benchmark at 31 posts per day during the PAW (peak attention window).

Read the comments and it is overwhelmingly people who had a good time. The sentiment is scorching, warmer than three quarters of festivals worldwide get, and ranks among the top three warmest comment sections of any Jazz or Soul festival on the planet.

People stop and react when a post appears at a rate above the worldwide average for festivals, a real strength given the modest reach the clips pull in.

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Most engaging posts, this edition

1Insta ReelView post ↗
Ahead of his debut performance at the @capetowninternationaljazzfest, 7-time Grammy Award Winner, @jacobcollie
5.7k engagements · Engagement Rate 20.6% · Sentiment: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
2Insta ReelView post ↗
Fatoumata Diawara 🇲🇱
2.6k engagements · Engagement Rate 9.6% · Sentiment: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
3Insta CarouselView post ↗
Moments that changed us 🧡 @jacobcollier
2.0k engagements · Engagement Rate 7.4% · Sentiment: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
4Insta ReelView post ↗
The moment we have been waiting for 🧡 @jacobcollier
1.8k engagements · Engagement Rate 6.6% · Sentiment: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
5Insta CarouselView post ↗
From Mali to our stage - Fatoumata Diawara 🇲🇱 West African rhythm. Fearless artistry.
1.8k engagements · Engagement Rate 6.3% · Sentiment: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥