- GJF nominated for Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts
- Three Thursdays of Jazz: Thursday 1
- GJF Art Auction raises $21,000
- WORKSHOP: Burnt Sugar, on conduction technique
- CONCERT: Burnt Sugar brings hot sound to Guelph
- 2008 Winter Concerts
- Jazz Festival restructures, hires new staff
- Three October 2007 concerts
- 2007 Post-Festival Thanks
- People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz is Now!
Current News
GJF Art Auction raises $21,000
Over 100 people turned out for the Guelph Jazz Festival Art Auction last month at the e-bar. And they helped us raise an astounding (to us) $21,000! That's our most successful one-off fundraiser ever. Thanks to all who attended, to the artists who contributed, to the dozens of volunteers who helped us stage the afternoon - and especially to new board member Stella Pasion who courageously took on this new assignment in January, and blew us all away with her execution!
Contributing Artists:
Scott Abbott | Chris Ahlers | Marilyn Clarke | Nick Craine | Greg Denton | Susan Dobson | Kenny Doren | Will Gorlitz | John Heward | Lise Janis | Marilyn Koop | Mary Karavos | Ed Kuris | Gordon Laird | Susan Lapp | Cesar Leiva | Tania Love | Toby MacPhee | Joel Masewich | Barry McCarthy | Andrew Miles | Ryan Price | Glenna Rebick | Reinhard Reitzenstein | Cheryl Ruddock | Don Russell | Vanya Ryan | Kristin Samuel-Stevens | Candace Sepulis | Anne Schnurr | Graeme Sheffield | Karin Silverstone | Jerrard Smith | Mark Stutman | Annette Twist | Robert Weaver
John Zorn’s The Dreamers
The Dreamers is a new suite by the ever-prolific composer for a band with the same personnel as Electric Masada. Here, John Zorn unabashedly mines a feeling of nostalgia, as the ensemble explores material that draws on surf music, organ-trio jazz, film music, and psychedelia, with Marc Ribot’s inimitable guitar playing nearly always at the centre of the music-making.
