As of 31 August, the Guelph Jazz Festival Board of Directors has updated its COVID-19 policy regarding indoor ticketed concerts during the 2021 Festival. Attendees at any of these seven indoor concerts, 16-19 September, must be prepared to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination on site (print-out or on mobile device) prior to entry. Those who […]

Please read this preview in the online version of the Toronto-based WholeNote Magazine by Stuart Broomer, published on 24 August.

You can now peruse the artistic lineup and schedule for the 2021 Guelph Jazz Festival, 14-19 September, which includes descriptions of the brand-new ‘GJF in the Parks’ program, featuring nine stellar groups in City parks throughout Guelph, 16-17-18 September.

We are thrilled to announce our plans to present an in-person live music festival, 14-19 September in Guelph, Ontario. The 2021 Guelph Jazz Festival programming is conceived to offer our audiences a range of exciting musical experiences that can be engaged both safely and festively. It includes three streams of programming, featuring exclusively Canadian talent:

Registration for Arborienteering, 25 & 26 July in the University of Guelph Arboretum is now full. The University has capped attendance each day at 120, and we have been delighted with the public response, which has meant that those spots are currently filled. We are keeping a waiting list in case some registrants cancel in

Click here to visit the registration page for Arborienteering, our site-specific event-piece for fifteen musicians in the University of Guelph Arboretum, Sunday 25 and Monday 26 July, 1pm. Attendance is free, but advance registration is mandatory so that we can comply with health-measure capacity limits.

We at the Guelph Jazz Festival are thrilled by the prospect that we can present live music this summer, and are working diligently to do so in a way that is both engaging and can be done safely. This year’s Guelph Jazz Festival will necessarily be in a very different structure than previous years. With

During a period when conventional live music presentation is not feasible, the Guelph Jazz Festival is once again presenting live music in unconventional ways. Arborienteering is a live-music event-piece conceived and composed for the University of Guelph Arboretum. Fifteen musicians will play ten-minute solos, each under specific trees. These solos will begin at five-minute intervals so, with the

While the Guelph Jazz Festival is committed to and looks forward to a time when we can present live music more readily, we are partnering on this project convened by the National Arts Centre and the Canada Council for the Arts. New York-based Canadian pianist Kris Davis, who last performed at the Guelph Jazz Festival in 2015,

We are happy to launch our new website design, featuring details from our 2021 GJF image, a painting by Winnipeg artist, Caroline Mousseau, tangle, oil on canvas, 43” x 46.125”, 2017. Thanks as always to Dave Steele at Barking Dog Studios and our graphic designer Helen Dimitrijevic. While plans for 2021 remain uncertain at this point, we are optimistic