Jazz Sudbury Returns with Live Festival, September 8-10

• Alex Cuba, winner of the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album.
• Avataar, featuring Sudbury’s Sundar Viswanathan, winner of the 2022 Juno Award for Jazz Album of the Year (Group).
• Caity Gyorgy, a sensational vocalist who is the winner of the 2022 Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year.
• Rich Brown & the New Abeng Quartet, a fusion band with jazz-funk and jazz rock influences.
• ES:MO, the jazz duo of vocalist/pianist Elizabeth Sheppard and guitarist Michael Occhipinti.
• Ernesto Cervini’s Turboprop, a Juno-award-winning jazz band.
• Tevet Sela with John Roney, a Montreal-based saxophonist, blending bop, blues and Middle Eastern influences
• Tio Chorinho, Canada’s first ensemble dedicated to Brazilian choro music, a blend of traditional and Afro-Brazilian jazz.

• Harvey King and the Grindstone, a Sudbury group that combines jazz, soul, and rock and roll.
• The Heavyweights Brass Band, some of the coolest, brashest young brass instrument players in Canada.
• Soul Stew, a Toronto band performing jazz, blues, and soul.

JAZZ WALK, SATURDAY AFTERNOON JAZZ & OPEN JAM SESSION
This year’s Jazz Sudbury Festival will also see the return of the downtown Jazz Walk, with the Nickel City Dixie Stompers leading a New Orleans-style jazz parade from the Alibi Room to Oscar’s Grill and 84 Station. The Jazz Walk concerts are free of charge and start at 12pm.

• The Zack Martel Trio, 12:15pm @ The Alibi Room
• Sundar Viswanathan Workshop, 1pm @ Place des Arts, Studio Desjardins
• The Tony Simpkin Trio, 2:30pm @ Oscar’s Grill
• The Sarah Craig Trio, 4:15pm @ 84 Station
• Open Jam Session, 11pm @ The Laughing Buddha

AFTER PARTIES
Jazz Sudbury is also introducing different ticketing options, including nightly concert passes, limited edition passes, and all-access passes. In addition to the nightly concerts, there will be after-concert performances in the Studio Desjardins at Places Des Arts, as well as daytime concerts at various clubs in the downtown.