- Three Thursdays of Jazz: Thursday 2
- Festival artistic director Ajay Heble suffers heart attack Monday, now stable
- 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
Current News
GJF nominated for Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts
May 23, 2008 – The Guelph Jazz Festival is one of six arts organizations shortlisted for the 2008 Premier’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts, with the announcement coming just before the Festival announces its 15th season’s program.
The Festival is in distinguished company for the $50,000 award: Coach House Books, of Toronto (Literature - Cultural Industries), Hot Docs, of Toronto (Media Arts - Cultural Industries), Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, of Toronto (Theatre), Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, of M'Chigeeng (Arts Centre), Réseau Ontario, of Ottawa (Theatre). Dancer David Earle, of Guelph, was one of six artists nominated in the Artist category. The awards will be presented early this summer, in Toronto.
“The nomination recognizes the Guelph Jazz Festival’s unique artistic vision to showcase new creative and improvised music, which continues in this, our 15th season,” says Ajay Heble, the Festival’s Artistic Director. “We will announce an exciting series of mainstage shows next week and the full program in mid-June, when we’ll launch our redesigned website.”
Tickets for the September 3-7, 2008 Festival go on sale on July 2.
The festival planning team this year includes Heble, Derek Andrews (Executive Director), Julie Hastings (Director of Operations), Thomas Silvani (Administator) and Mary Rankin (Volunteer Coordinator).
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John Zorn’s Electric Masada
‘Masada’ refers to John Zorn’s book of 500-plus brief compositions that, in their deployment of traditional ‘Jewish’ modes as provocations for improvisation in oft-extreme contexts, are at the core of his exploration of what he calls “Radical Jewish Culture,” played here by the most active of his many ensembles.
