this year’s festival: free jazz tent
14,000 attend GJF 2008
The 2008 Guelph Jazz Festival was a resounding success and surpassed all previous years for attendance. We estimate our total 2008 audience was 14,000 - the combined attendance of all 23 concerts, including the 12 hours of tent programming. If you were unable to make it to some of the concerts, listen up for regular updates about hearing some of the Festival's performances on CBC Radio 2 (the first broadcast was on October 6).Subscribe to enews (right) for concert notifications.
(photo: Art Kilgour)
next year’s festival
Guelph Jazz Festival 2009
The 2008 version of the festival is over, and we're in the early planning stages for 2009, to be held Wed. Sept. 9 to Sunday, Sept. 13. In the meantime, watch this space (or subscribe to enews, below) for our off-season events and news:
• occasional concerts
• Jazz in the Schools (early 2009)
• Jazz Art Auction (spring 2009)
• Three Thursdays of Jazz (spring 2009)
Carnavalissimo: Jazz Festival Street Parade
A festival highlight was Saturday night's street parade, led by Jane Bunnett, with dancers from Toronto's Ballet Creole. See three short parade videos on YouTube (click below, or search "carnavalissimo" on YouTube):