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Unwritten Thursdays: City Poems

Unwritten Thursdays

Thursday, April 18, 2024Tyrant Studios9:00PM$15-$20

Myriam Gendron + Jim White & Marisa Anderson

Special Engagement

Thursday, May 23, 2024St. James Community Square8:00PM$35 plus fees

Journeys to the Bandstand – A Conversation with Author Chris Wong

Free Jazz Around Town

Friday, June 21, 2024Ocean Artworks4:00PMFREE

SUMAC with Moor Mother

Fortune Sound Club

Friday, June 21, 2024Fortune Sound Club7:00PM$37 plus service fees

Garret T. Willie

Granville Island Jazz

Friday, June 21, 2024Ocean Artworks8:30PM$10 (at the door)

DJ Paisley Eva

Free Jazz Around Town

Friday, June 21, 2024Ocean Artworks10:30PMFREE

The Jason Winikoff Hot 5

Downtown Jazz

Saturday, June 22, 2024Downtown – Georgia Street Stage12:30PMFREE

Parlour Panther

Downtown Jazz

Saturday, June 22, 2024Downtown – Georgia Street Stage2:15PMFREE

Itamar Erez Quartet

Downtown Jazz

Saturday, June 22, 2024Downtown – Georgia Street Stage3:45PMFREE

Biboye Onanuga Quartet

Free Jazz Around Town

Saturday, June 22, 2024Ocean Artworks4:00PMFREE

See you June 21 - 30!

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Apr 17

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Our Granville Island Jazz programming has arrived! 🌊 This year’s lineup features a wonderful array of Festival first timers and seasoned friends of the Festival from June 21 to 30. Afternoon programming at Granville Island is entirely free, with shows at Performance Works from 1:30PM-3:30PM. Here you will find performers like Norway’s leading piano trio Kjetil Mulelid Trio and local Indo-Jazz fusion quartet Raagaverse. Our free Ocean Artworks series starts at 4:00PM on most days and features some fresh faces like a key figure in the Alberta jazz scene drummer Biboye Onanuga and guitarist/composer Sam Wilson who blends finger-style guitar with the far-roving possibilities of jazz improvisation. As well as returning players like organist Chris Gestrin who will be performing the music of the legendary Shirley Scott.

New this year is the addition of three late night free shows at The Revue Stage starting at 11:00PM. Part of our Innovation Series, you can catch some impressive heavyweights in creative music, including an improvised set with French saxophonist/flutist Sakina Abdou, Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist/composer Shahzad Ismaily, and one of the West Coast’s most agile and inquisitive drummers, Dan Gaucher.

PLUS don’t miss our Ocean Artworks evening series. Tickets will only be available at the door.

Highlights include the 23-year-old blues sensation Garret T. Willie (June 21) with a shredding, hard-stomping rock ‘n’ roll blues set. You might recognize Pasquale Grasso from his set with Samara Joy in 2022. Known as one of the best guitar players on the jazz scene today, Pasquale performs his own set (June 30) with André Lachance and Andrew Millar.

There are so many great offerings this year, head to our 🔗 in bio or coastaljazz.ca for the full Festival lineup!

#vanjazzfest

Apr 15

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Our 2024 Downtown Jazz series is going to be full to the brim with fun danceable grooves–from traditional jazz to blues, from Latin-influenced experimental rock to hip hop🕺✨ Pitchfork calls drummer Kassa Overall “one of modern jazz music’s most audacious futurists”. Blue Moon Marquee just won the JUNO for Blues Album of the Year. You may recognize Odario (or maybe his voice) from his late night show on CBC called Afterdark. The Wire called Juana Molina’s music “essential for all humans on planet Earth.” We’ve got something for everyone! Head over to our website to see more on our free programming this year.

June 22
Jason Winikoff Hot 5 | @jasonwinikoff
Parlour Panther | @parlour.panther
Itamar Erez Quartet | @itamarerezmusic
Juliana Molina | @soyjuanamolina
Kassa Overall | @kassaoverall

June 23
Peggy Lee Band
Blue Moon Marquee | @bluemoonmarquee
GEORGE
Y La Bamba | @ylabamba
Odario | @odario

Apr 11

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The season finale of Unwritten Thursdays is coming up on April 18th at Tyrant Studios with the theme City Poems ✍️ Seasoned jazz performers will improvise music to accompany four acclaimed local spoken word artists as they perform pieces inspired by the city. Fiona Tinwei Lam, Vancouver’s 6th poet laureate, and the author of 3 collections of poetry and a children’s book, hosts. Co-presented by @coastaljazz and @barkingsphinx. Tickets at the 🔗in bio.
Spoken word artists: Tawahum, Jillian Christmas, Johnny Trinh & RC Weslowski.
Featured musicians: Feven Kidane, John Gross, Lisa Cay Miller, Théo Girard & Josh Zubot.

Apr 8

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Our 2024 Festival branding is looking mighty fine thanks to the wonderfully creative minds at @massifcreative 🙌 While the Festival ushers in the start of the summer season, this year’s creative showcases the day ☀️ and night 🌙 with visual imagery that harkens back to the last two Festivals but with a darker, moodier vibe. Let us know what you think in the comments!

We already have lots of shows on sale including:
June 21 - SUMAC with Moor Mother
@sumacbandofficial + @moormother
June 22 - Irreversible Entanglements
@irreversibleentanglements
June 23 - The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis
@themessthetics + @jamesbrandonlewis
June 24 - Veronica Swift
@veronicaswiftofficial
June 25 - Julian Lage
@jlage
June 29 - Killer Mike
@killermike
And more - plus more announcements to come!

Hit the 🔗in bio to browse our lineup and get tickets.
#vanjazzfest

Apr 2

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Our Innovation Series lineup at The Revue stage has arrived. 🙌 This series hosts experimental music on the outermost edges of the jazz periphery. For many of the shows at the Innovation Series, our programmers pair up musicians from out of town with locals to perform a completely improvised set. This creates such a unique and creative atmosphere that simply can’t be replicated. #IYKYK Catching an Innovation Series show is a must for frequent Jazz Fest goers. Tickets are on sale now for the 9:30PM shows, the rest will be by donation, PWYC at the door.

Grab tickets at the 🔗 in bio and see below for lineup details!

✨9:30PM Ticketed Series✨
June 26 - Emmeluth’s Amoeba
June 27 - Peregrine Falls + Shahzad Ismaily
June 28 - Team Hegdal
June 29 - Dàlava
June 30 - Horse Lords

✨5:00PM PWYC Series✨
June 26 - Hand to Earth: The Crow
June 27 - Umeda, Hegdal, Stackenäs, Naylor, Loewen
June 28 - Sakina Abdou + Peter Knight & JP Carter
June 29 - Robin Holcomb, Torsten Müller, Dylan van der Schyff
June 30 - Saba Amrei, Lisa Cay Miller & Adrian Avendaño + Emad Armoush, Josh Zubot & Parmela Attariwala

Mar 25

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Brace yourself, Granville Island, things are gonna be lit this June.

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We are beyond thrilled to announce the first slate of Performance Works shows as part of this year’s Granville Island Jazz series at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. These artists twist jazz, punk, dub, spoken word, avant-garde, free improv and even Haitian Vodou into a musical vibrancy that is bound to blow your mind.

🎟️ Tickets go on sale to the public Tuesday, March 26 at 10:00am!

June 22 - Irreversible Entanglements
June 23 - The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis
June 26 - aja monet
June 27 - Lakecia Benjamin and Phoenix
June 28 - Ulysses Owens Jr’s Generation Y
June 29 - We All Break

Two additional Performance Works shows will be announced at a later date. Head to our link in bio for more on our 2024 Festival artists and tickets, or head to coastaljazz.ca.

Who are you most excited to see? Tell us in the comments below!

#vanjazzfest

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