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Get Excited for the Vancouver International Jazz Festival

by Rick Chung in Entertainment, Events, Family Friendly, Outside on May 27, 2024

Jonny Tobin, Photo: Matt Taylor/Coastal Jazz

Jazz lovers, get ready to kick off summer by heading to the 39th edition of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival (VIJF) at various indoor and outdoor venues across the city from June 21-30. Once again featuring a mix of free and ticketed performances, 2024’s ten-day festival promises a wide array of jazz programming with plenty of choices for concertgoers to choose from.

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Get Excited for the Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Get Down This Summer at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival

by Rick Chung in Entertainment, Events, Family Friendly, Outside on May 30, 2023

The Suffers, Photo: Craig Sinclair/Coastal Jazz

Get down and celebrate summer in the city at the 38th annual Vancouver International Jazz Festival (VIJF) from June 23 to July 2. Featuring 140 shows and more than 50 free performances hosted at a variety of venues around the city, this year’s ten-day festival offers a diverse array of programming with a balance of free and ticketed live events to choose from.

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Get Down This Summer at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Coastal Jazz & Blues Society Announces IronFest: A Fall Jazz Concert Series

by Inside Vancouver in Entertainment, Events on October 22, 2021

Jodi Proznick. Photo: Michele Mateus

Coastal Jazz & Blues Society is thrilled to present IronFest: A Fall Jazz Concert Series from Thursday, November 18 to Saturday, November 20, 2021 at The Ironworks (235 Alexander Street). Tickets for each performance are $25 (plus applicable fees and service charges) and go on sale to the general public on Wednesday, October 20 at 10:00am PT.

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Coastal Jazz & Blues Society Announces IronFest: A Fall Jazz Concert Series

Enter to Win a Musical Prize from the Vancouver Jazz Festival, Douglas Hotel at Parq, and the JUNO Awards

by Inside Vancouver in Deals on February 7, 2018

Image by Lindsay Elliott

It’s a musical year in Vancouver! The Vancouver Opera, Chutzpah!, the Talking Stick Festival, and the JUNO Awards are all coming up quick this season with new sounds to lift you into a songwriter’s bliss, take in long notes of melancholia, dance you into heart-pounding percussion, and carry you through the human experience in a way that only music can – and they’re doing it all live and in-person in venues across the city. The music continues all year with the Vancouver Jazz Festival and much more from spring to summer and into fall and winter.

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Enter to Win a Musical Prize from the Vancouver Jazz Festival, Douglas Hotel at Parq, and the JUNO Awards