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Jan 2020Ottawa Winter Jazz Fest Presents Digital Creative Music Summit
How does the art of jazz balance with new technologies while still connecting with the human experience? From Jan 30 – Feb 1, 45 musicians, 14 panelists and 16 delegates from Europe, across Canada and the United States...
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Dec 2019Jazz Sudbury Festival Announces New Summer Dates
SUDBURY, ON – Next year’s installment of Jazz Sudbury Festival is set to be moved a month earlier in August. Since its inception in 2009, Jazz Sudbury Festival has occurred annually outdoors at the beginning of September. Despite...
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Jun 2019Help Restore Funding to OJF!
On May 31, the Ottawa Jazz Festival received notice from the Ford Government that a Celebrate Ontario grant in the amount of $290,000 would not be available any longer. This grant had been awarded to the Ottawa Jazz...
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Apr 2019Big News For the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal
In 2019, the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, presented by TD Bank Group in collaboration with Rio Tinto, will celebrate its 40th birthday with a grand gesture for the benefit of Montréalers, Montréal and its neighbourhoods.
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Sep 2018In Memory of Ken Pickering
In the early hours of August 10th, 2018 co-founder of the Vancouver International Jazz festival, and long-time artistic director of Coastal Jazz and Blues Society Ken Pickering peacefully departed this life in the loving presence of his wife...
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Mar 2017Guelph Jazz Festival Announces New Artistic Director
The Guelph Jazz Festival Board of Directors is thrilled to announce that Scott Thomson has been hired as the Festival’s new Artistic Director. “The quality and richness of the candidates from Canada and beyond who expressed their interest...
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Jan 2017JFC Welcomes TD Markham Jazz Festival & Jazz YYC
Jazz Festivals Canada (JFC) is pleased to welcome two new members to the national festival network: The TD Markham Jazz Festival and Jazz YYC. TD Markham Jazz Festival is an exciting and vibrant four-day event featuring well known...
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Dec 2016Winnipeg International Jazz Festival Announces New Artistic Director
On December 19, Jazz Winnipeg announced the naming of Michael Falk at the organization’s incoming Artistic Director. Falk has over 13 years of experience in the music industry, all of which is distinctly rooted in developing and promoting...
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Aug 2016Attention Canadian Musicians
As you may be aware, the Canada Council for the Arts is rolling out a new funding model on April 1, 2017. The time sensitive news on this front is that the final 2016 deadline for the Music Touring...
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Feb 2016Toronto Downtown Jazz Appoints New CEO Howard Kerbel
Toronto Downtown Jazz, producers of the annual TD Toronto Jazz Festival, is pleased to announce the appointment of Howard Kerbel as the new Chief Executive Officer who, effective immediately, will take over from Patrick Taylor, co-founder of the...
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