The Montreal International Jazz
Festival celebrates its 35th anniversary this summer and
this week they announced their free outdoor concerts!
Hundreds of artists - from Diana
Krall, Woodkid, Vintage Trouble and Deltron
3030 to chamber jazz for the wild west with Rob Mosher's
Polebridge, Balkan Gypsy Party - give free Jazz Festival
concerts.
The world's largest jazz festival takes
place June 26 - July 6, 2014 from noon - midnight with 1,000
concerts and activities - 2/3 of which are free -on 9 outdoor stages
and 10 concert halls in a car-free area in the heart of downtown
Montreal. More than 3,000 musicians and public entertainers from 30
countries participate. It's a family-friendly event with special
kids performances, percussion workshops, a musical park with a walk-on
playing keyboard, saxophone slide, face painting and much
more.
As NPR Music says: "Anyone who's ever been to the Montreal International Jazz Fest knows there's nothing quite like it in North America." And DownBeat Magazine's Frank Alkyer writes: "With more than 800 acts presented over 10 days, Montreal is a joyous blur, a mad dash from concert to concert and a glimpse at some of the best live acts in jazz today."
Indoor, ticketed concerts, which were announced April 23, include
more than 200 shows including Diana
Ross, Keith Jarrett, Michael Bublé, Terence
Blanchard, Rufus Wainwright, Trombone Shorty,
Beck, Marcus Miller, Bobby McFerrin, Jack
DeJohnette, Earth, Wind & Fire, Tony Bennett,
Ben Harper, Ginger Baker, Tord Gustavsen, Stacey
Kent, Brad Mehldau, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Tom Harrell, Keith Jarrett solo, Oliver Jones, Cassandra Wilson and
more.
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