Jacksonville Jazz Festival a Huge Success

Sights and scenes from Downtown's 2011 Jacksonville Jazz Festival. There is no doubt that this year's Jazz Festival an unqualified success, one of several for the City, and its vivacious Special Events Office. More than that, it was also solid proof that a properly planned urban festival creates the synergy and crowds that will help breathe life back into the urban core. Check out these amazing photos, showing the densest crowds packed into downtown streets in recent years.

Images by Wiatt Bowers, Mike Fields and Metrojacksonville discussion board member Peestandingup