The Guelph Jazz Festival is currently welcoming new Directors to our Board. This is an exciting time to join the Festival; we are celebrating our 30th anniversary in 2023 — three decades of animating the city with world-class live music every September. The GJF Board of Directors focuses on governance and policy, provides oversight on […]

Thanks as always to Stuart Broomer for his keen ears, insights, and turns-of-phrase, all of which contribute vitally to his excellent review of the 2022 Guelph Jazz Festival in Musicworks Magazine.

The title says it all. Who can believe it? 30 years!

The 2022 Guelph Jazz Festival, 15-18 September, was an enormous success, featuring 38 performances by groups totalling hundreds of world-class artists from the regional, national, and international fields of creative music. Beautiful weather made a return to free outdoor programming, GJF in Market Square –– including the amazing Friday Night Street Music Party ––, a joy for the thousands

Following a successful event in 2021 that was reconfigured to meet public health measures, the Guelph Jazz Festival will present a full festival in its pre-pandemic structure in one month’s time, 15-18 September. The 2022 Festival will feature ticketed indoor and free outdoor concerts, including the notable return to its highly popular ‘GJF in Market

Click here to visit our Box Office page to buy tickets and passes for the 2022 Guelph Jazz Festival. You can also access the box office for individual concerts through our Festival Schedule as well as Artist Pages. We are pleased once again to be working with the River Run Centre, Guelph, who are administering

Following a successful event in 2021 that was reconfigured to meet public health measures, the Guelph Jazz Festival is announcing highlights of its 2022 Festival programming, 15-18 September. The 2022 Festival will feature ticketed indoor and free outdoor concerts, including the notable return to its highly popular ‘GJF in Market Square’ events, and effective return to

Thanks to Barking Dog Studios, we have launched the 2022 Guelph Jazz Festival website. In the next month – during the second half of June – we will be announcing the lineup for the 2022 Guelph Jazz Festival, 15-18 September, along with box office and other information. Thanks for your patience while the Artistic team

We are currently looking to fill two positions in the execution of our 2022 festival, 15-18 September: Volunteer Manager • contract position June through September • *DEADLINE EXTENDED* apply by 3 June • see job posting here Production Assistant • Eight-week employment through Canada Summer Jobs (applicants must be under 30 years of age) •

Audiopollination Guelph is a monthly music and arts event featuring ad hoc trios performing creative improvised music, convened by local improvising musician Emjay Wright in partnership with the Guelph Jazz Festival. All ages, skill levels, backgrounds, and artistic disciplines are welcome, including visual artists and dancers. This is a space to experiment and discover new