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Myriam Gendron + Jim White & Marisa Anderson

Special Engagement

Thursday, May 23, 2024St. James Community Square8:00PM$35 plus fees

Journeys to the Bandstand – A Conversation with Author Chris Wong

Free Jazz Around Town

Friday, June 21, 2024Ocean Artworks4:00PMFREE

Shannon Thue

Club Series

Friday, June 21, 20242nd Floor Gastown (at the Water St. Café)4:30PM$6

Jennifer Scott, Karla Mundy, and Dawn Pemberton

Club Series

Friday, June 21, 20242nd Floor Gastown (at the Water St. Café)6:30PM$18

SUMAC with Moor Mother

Fortune Sound Club

Friday, June 21, 2024Fortune Sound Club7:00PM$37 plus service fees

Mary Ancheta Quartet

North Shore Jazz

Friday, June 21, 2024West Vancouver Memorial Library7:30PMFREE

FROM NEW YORK: LEZLIE HARRISON

Club Series

Friday, June 21, 2024Frankie’s Jazz Club8:00PM$30-$40

Garret T. Willie

Granville Island Jazz

Friday, June 21, 2024Ocean Artworks8:30PM$10 (at the door)

Bryan Chung & Co.

Club Series

Friday, June 21, 2024Tyrant Studios9:30PM$16 advance/$20 at door

DJ Paisley Eva

Free Jazz Around Town

Friday, June 21, 2024Ocean Artworks10:30PMFREE

Thanks to our 2024 Festival Partners!

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Lass Chance

Downtown Van

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May 13

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Julian Lage is one of the greatest guitar players on the jazz scene today 🎸His technical skill is undeniably incredible but it’s his ability to communicate emotion through the strings that makes his playing really special. He just released a new album called Speak to Me to rave reviews, “To put it simply: Speak to Me is a vibrantly colorful panorama of mood and melody that captures not only the joy of making music, but also of sharing it”. (Sputnik Music)

@jlage will be performing on June 25th at Vancouver Playhouse in his adventurous and deeply attuned trio featuring bassist @jorge_roeder and renowned @thebadplus Bad Plus drummer Dave King (@googlebully). Get your tickets now at the 🔗 in bio!
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May 10

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Myriam Gendron’s gorgeous new album Mayday is out today ✨ It is a deep record about the heaviness of life and the existential questions of mortality that we all face. In a glowing review by Exclaim! they say, “Between its instrumental interplay and Gendron’s singing and structural vision, it’s a deep and gorgeous classic that moves her into the pantheon of our greatest living songwriters.” We invite you to dive into this beautiful record now and get to know it before her performance on May 23rd at St. James Community Square. She will be joined by Jim White and Marisa Anderson for an opening set, who are collaborators on Myriam’s new album and released their own album today called Swallowtail. What a glorious day for music! We are proud to co-present this show with @vanfolkfest, you can find tickets at our linkinbio.

May 6

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Here’s a first look at our 2024 artist lineup poster which just premiered in the Festival Issue of DownBeat Magazine 👀 We’re thrilled to partner with @downbeat_mag this year, a magazine that is famous for their reviews of jazz, blues, and beyond since 1934. And we thought we’d been around a long time! That’s almost 130 combined years of jazz love! 😍 We know that our audiences love jazz too, that’s why we’re pumped to present our 39th edition of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival! Over 150 performances with more than 50 free events. Swipe through to see our audiences enjoying themselves at last year’s Festival 👏

Who was your favourite performer of 2023? Tell us your fave in the comments below.
📸 by @mjtphoto.org_
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Apr 30

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Killer Mike is one of the biggest names in rap right now🎙️🔥 Hot off the heels of his three GRAMMY wins for his incredibly powerful album MICHAEL, we’re thrilled to feature @killermike as our headlining performer on June 29th at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. MICHAEL is Killer Mike’s first solo record in over a decade, with its central theme revolving around spirituality, and it’s no surprise he’s bringing his Mighty Midnight Revival choir for a truly unmissable show. 🙌

“On a technical level, Mike’s raps are seismic. That deep baritone and Atlanta drawl has long rendered his voice one of the most distinct in hip-hop.” ~ Pitchfork

JUST ADDED! An opening set by @djshub 💿
Social activism and a feverish dance party make a tantalizing combination, and Dan “DJ Shub” General is the grand marshal we nominate to lead this jubilant parade. The 2022 JUNO Award winner for Contemporary Indigenous Artist of the Year, Shub is a true original: a title-holding battle DJ/producer, a joyful collaborator and a non-stop creator who skillfully weaves craft, message and heritage. Shub’s uncompromising pride in Aboriginal heritage and talent is the driving force behind his art. Join the parade – Shub’s made sure there’s enough hip hop, Indigenous culture, power, protest and humanity for all of us.

Now that’s a party. Tickets at linkinbio or coastaljazz.ca.

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Apr 26

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Apr 24

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We will have three incredibly talented Artists in Residence this year including Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist/composer Shahzad Ismaily, French saxophonist/flutist Sakina Abdou, and BC’s own DJ O Show 👏 Each will be doing multiple performances at the 2024 Jazz Festival as well as their own Artist Talk at @western_front which are free to attend! Scroll down to learn more about our Artists in Residence and head to coastaljazz.ca to see the workshops we’re offering this year.

The New York Times called Brooklyn-based composer/multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily“ one of music’s most in-demand collaborators, flitting like a mischievous butterfly through genres as diverse as honeyed folk, rambunctious free jazz and spectral meditations sung in Urdu”. Over the last thirty years he’s played all manner of instruments with a diverse crew of artmakers, including Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Feist, Keiji Haino, Ceramic Dog, and more.

French saxophonist/flutist @sakina_abdou_officiel’s multifaceted sound is sometimes caustic, sometimes full of grace and quietude, and always full of suspense and surprise. She’s worked with the likes of Eve Risser, Dedalus, and the Muzzix collective. Of Franco-Nigerian origin, an upcoming collaboration will feature drummers from Niger and flutist Yacouba Moumouni. “She can be as fiery as she is fierce, but what has impressed me is Abdou’s ability to bring moments of swing-derived blowing to the equation, evoking Lee Konitz as much as Peter Brötzmann” (The Quietus).

Passion, positivity, and professionalism make @djoshow one of the most sought-after DJs working today. O Show—a.k.a. Orene Askew—is a proudly Afro-Indigenous, and embraces teachings from both lineages. Winner of the 2022 International Indigenous Hip Hop Award for DJ of the Year, a BC Indigenous Business Award, and Vancouver Pride Society’s StandOut Award, she’s also a powerful speaker who shares knowledge and spreads the positive message that diversity makes beautiful music!
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