Vancouver International Jazz Festival News

 
Soul and jazz night
Mansfield Chad
Singer-songwriter Ola has performed at some of the most well-known festivals throughout the world, including the main stage at the Montreal Jazz Festival and Vancouver International Jazz Festival. His new album is influenced by souls and blues, ...


 
Django Reinhardt Inspires The Lost Fingers' Jazz Manouche
Twin Falls Times-News
The 2009 Montreal International Jazz Festival selected the group as its closing performers, and the trio has been showcased at the Calgary Stampede and the Vancouver Winter Olympics. To learn more, visit thelostfingers.com. The final two performances ...


 
Renowned Flutist Finds Shen Yun's Music 'Impeccable'
The Epoch Times
She won an International Broadcasting Award from the Hollywood Radio and Television Society, and her credits include CBC TV, National PUblic Radio, CITR, and CBC Radio, the San Diego International Jazz Festival, the Vancouver Du Maurier Jazz Festival, ...

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Vancouver's best events this week
Vancouver Sun
10 Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival Various venues, to Feb. 18 The annual festival celebrates the world's best adventure films with guests including local and international climbers, skiers and paddlers, along with more than 50 films, ...

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Toronto Star
Laila Biali and the womanly wave in jazz
Toronto Star
Jazz's boundaries now stretched further out than ever before, embracing everything from hip hop to Nirvana covers. Adding reggae scion Ziggy Marley to the recently announcement line-up of June's TD Toronto Jazz Festival raised few eyebrows even among ...

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Clark College Jazz Festival strikes gold
The Columbian
Kaleb Armstrong, 16, and Keiko Inouye, 15, play trombones in the Battle Ground High advanced jazz band. It is among dozens of bands that will participate in the Clark College Jazz Festival this weekend. Where: Clark College, 1933 Fort Vancouver Way.

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Jazz singer outgrowing rising star label
Victoria Times Colonist
It's a funny spot to be in - with enough experience under her belt, Biali released her jazz-pop crossover album Tracing Light as a retrospective. She's performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, the North Sea Jazz Festival and Tokyo's Cotton Club.

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