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Summer festival season is a lot different this year, but there is good news to deliver too.

The 35th annual TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival features over 50 free streamed concerts and workshops from June 25 to July 4, 2021.

Tickets and info: YouTube Jazz is all about coming up with creative solutions to musical challenges. In 2021, the folks behind Vancouver’s jazz festival have taken that to heart. After the pandemic led to the cancellation of the 2020 event, this year’s edition will feature more than 100 virtual events. Among them are 52 free performances, six interactive workshops and the annual festival Colloquium, presented in partnership with the Western Front, UBC and the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. The free program includes daily concerts running from noon to 4:30 p...

by Steve Newton on April 22nd, 2021 at 9:49 AM 1 of 5 2 of 5 The Coastal Jazz & Blues Society has announced a massive lineup of streamed performances for the 35th edition of its TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival. After cancelling the festival last year due to COVID-19, the CJBS has put together an impressive array of online shows by musicians from across B.C. and around the world. This year the performances will be streamed from the festival's four main venues: Ironworks, Performance Works, Pyatt Hall, and Frankie's Jazz Club. The Sun Ra Orkestra closes out the International Strea...

by Steve Newton on February 13th, 2021 at 2:34 PM 1 of 4 2 of 4 Missy D remembers well the day her love affair with hip-hop started. She was an 11-year-old schoolkid in Zimbabwe, and her class was preparing for the year-end talent show. But they were learning to play the recorder, which isn't the most thrilling instrument in the world. "We pretty much sucked," recalls the 29-year-old rapper on the line from her East Van home, "and we were all complaining to our music teacher, 'Hey, you should be teaching us music that's relevant to us.' Hip-hop was a big thing at the time, and he somehow...