Ottawa Winter Jazz Festival

It’s the weekend — and with the ongoing state of emergency here in Ottawa, we can bet what everyone needs is an opportunity to rest and recalibrate. Here are some suggestions for how you can go about doing so.

TD Ottawa Jazz Festival will broadcast the greatest hits “from the vault” for the 2022 edition of Winter Jazzfest.

Winter Jazz Fest has been postponed until further notice and the Undercurrents Festival has pushed its dates to March.

See the shows Apt613 contributors look forward to most in Ottawa-Gatineau!

See the shows Apt613 contributors look forward to most in Ottawa-Gatineau!

TD Ottawa Winter Jazz Fest will unfold at Arts Court in 2020.

The 8th annual Winter Jazzfest is happening at La Nouvelle Scène from February 7–9, 2019.

The last 12 months have been very good to jazz singer-songwriter Tia Brazda, and in 2017, she finds herself in a good place.

Montreal-based musician Elizabeth Shepherd is a delight to listen to. With a gorgeous jazz sound that combines several other influences, her music is a truly inventive audio blend.  Local music lovers can see her musical talent first-hand this Friday when she performs at the Dominion-Chalmers Church (355 Cooper St.) at 7:30 pm as part of Ottawa’s Winter […]

The jazz festival is one of my very favourite things about this city. It’s the kind of festival you can entrust your ears to, entrust your nights to, and know that you will be impressed and surprised and introduced to a whole lot of new music. We’re lucky it comes around twice a year. The […]

“ All around, the world was white. The snow that winter had fallen in Biblical proportions. Into this clean-slate landscape stepped four blind men from Alabama. They came to sing the Gospel.” When I opened my new Blind Boys of Alabama CD and these were the first words on the insert, a shiver went down […]