Sunday August 18 McKay Wine & Beer Garden Stage 12:30 pm Her name is Alejandra, but she is making a name for herself as Ale in major jazz venues such as The Rex, Jazz Bistro, Hugh’s ... [Continue reading →]

Sunday August 18 McKay Wine & Beer Garden Stage 2:00 pm A performance by Alex Pangman goes to the heart of jazz. With half a dozen albums to her credit, the vivacious singer is a specialist ... [Continue reading →]

Sunday August 18 Varley Art Gallery Patio Stage 1:30 pm The tenor sax holds a revered place in jazz history and composition. Special players can add their own voice to its mystique. Bob Brough has been ... [Continue reading →]

Saturday August 17 Millenium Bandstand Stage 1:00 pm Jazz comes from India, too. Listen to Dhaivat Jani PLUS and discover a fascinating combination of Indian classical music, contemporary jazz and rock music brought to life and ... [Continue reading →]

Sunday August 18 Millenium Bandstand Stage 4:00 pm At its best, jazz is not safe. Jazz takes chances. Jazz struggles to give rise to new sounds and genres. Disaster Pony is a band that combines jazz ... [Continue reading →]

Saturday August 17 Millenium Bandstand Stage 5:30 pm Dominique Fils-Aimé is a two-time JUNO Award-winning singer-songwriter from Montreal who puts the history of African-American musical culture into the heart of her work. Her fourth album Our ... [Continue reading →]

Friday August 16 Millenium Bandstand Stage 7:30 pm Duchess, a vocal trio from New York, combines beautiful swing music with plenty of fun. Singers Amy Cervini, Hilary Gardner and Melissa Stylianou have performed since 2013 at ... [Continue reading →]

Saturday August 17 Millenium Bandstand Stage 4:00 pm Here is mainstream jazz at its best. Two celebrated Toronto-based musicians, saxophonist Mike Murley and pianist Mark Eisenman, perform selections from their JUNO-nominated album Recent History. Two rhythm ... [Continue reading →]

Saturday August 17 McKay Wine & Beer Garden Stage 3:30 pm From Montreal comes Elizabeth Shepherd, who has been hailed as “a jazz virtuoso blessed with a pop sensibility” (The Globe and Mail). A classically trained ... [Continue reading →]

Sunday August 18 Main Street Unionville Sunday afternoon Montreal-based trumpeter Jacques Kuba Séguin brings his brass band to Unionville for an afternoon of great fun. The young crew explore their festive side by venturing into traditional ... [Continue reading →]

Sunday August 18 Millenium Bandstand Stage 5:30 pm “He’s one of a kind, on a genius scale,” Nick Krewen of The Toronto Star has written. Hilario Duran brings his Latin Jazz Big Band to the Millenium ... [Continue reading →]

Saturday August 17 Millennium Bandstand Stage 7:00 pm Jackie Richardson is an award-winning singer and actor whose career spans more than five decades. Canada’s reigning queen of jazz, blues and gospel has earned kudos ranging from ... [Continue reading →]

Sunday August 18 McKay Wine & Beer Garden Stage 5:00 pm There is a sincerity in Jake Chisholm’s music that is immediately identifiable. Inspired by classic blues, soul and rock n roll, Jake’s quartet gives listeners ... [Continue reading →]

Saturday August 17 Varley Art Gallery Patio Stage 12:00 pm When GTA-based drummer Joel Haynes sat down in Vancouver to create a recording called The Return! with three old friends in February 2023, he was surprised ... [Continue reading →]

Saturday August 17 Millenium Bandstand Stage 2:30 pm Irresistible rhythms and tunes combined with spectacular drumming and jazzy improvisations – that’s pembiche. It is a musical genre and dance form related to merengue, the national dance ... [Continue reading →]

Sunday August 18 McKay Wine & Beer Garden Stage 3:30 pm Singer and pianist Kari van der Kloot is an original – a Canadian by birth and a world citizen by career. Following her musical education ... [Continue reading →]

Saturday August 17 McKay Wine & Beer Garden Stage 12:30 pm Come on a musical journey around the world with Los Variants. This Toronto-based group of six versatile musicians incorporate flamenco flourishes, middle Eastern groove and ... [Continue reading →]

Saturday August 17 McKay Wine & Beer Garden Stage 5:00 pm A sense of fun and vitality infuses Paloma Sky, a new quintet led by Toronto-born trumpeter Marie Goudy. Their first album, Hold On To Me, ... [Continue reading →]

Sunday August 18 Varley Art Gallery Patio Stage 3:00 pm The Varley Art Gallery Patio Stage enables musicians to get personal with audiences, and that’s what drummer Mark Kelso has in mind. His eighth album, The ... [Continue reading →]

Sunday August 18 Varley Art Gallery Patio Stage 4:30 pm Jazz fans in both the northern and southern hemispheres keep asking Mira Choquette to come and sing. This year she has performed in Puerto Rico, Armenia, ... [Continue reading →]