For our latest Sense of Place series, we sat down with historian Dorothy Williams, who grew up in the heart of Montreal's ...

One of the charges that has historically been leveled against the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (the FIJM, or popularly, the Montreal Jazz Festival) is that the programming had gone from ...

Jazz vocalist Samara Joy's career has been advancing rapidly. She drew a large, enthusiastic audience to the Maison symphonique, which was also a celebration of her receiving the festival's Ella ...

In almost any other French-language city in the world, this inquiry would translate as: “Do you speak cutting-edge jazz?” But at Canada’s 44-year-old Festival International de Jazz de Montreal— better ...

Last week, we previewed the first five days of the 34th Montreal International Jazz Festival — the world’s biggest jazz fest — which starts on Friday and runs until July 7. This week, we look at ...

‘We’re having a party,” said trumpeter/saxophonist/MC Marcus “Tennishu” Tenney, of Richmond, Virginia-based band Butcher Brown, which delivered its self-described “solar music” — a vibe-friendly ...

The post Montreal Jazz Fest 2024 Offered a Blueprint for Fixing the Broken Music Festival System appeared first on Consequence. In the dimly lit back bar of a venue on Saint-Catherine Street, a woman ...

The Nigerian music star will be one of the headliners for the famous music festival. Ayra Starr will headline the Montreal International Jazz Festival in Canada Grammy-nominated Nigerian superstar ...