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Big Band is Back!
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20/21 Season
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​Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra
Box 68114
RPO Osborne Village
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3L 2V9
Box Office:
204-632-5299
tickets
@winnipegjazzorchestra.com

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Main Line:
204-421-9398
manager
@winnipegjazzorchestra.com

​Free Jazz Orchestra Concerts

Divas of Jazz
- Featuring Jennifer Hanson, Stacey Nattrass, Jayme Giesbrecht, and Jocelyn Gould 
- stream release date March 1, 8:00-8:30 pm
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​Click here at 8:00 on Monday, March 1 to access the free concert.
Manitoba is blessed with a wealth of wonderful vocalists. This program will feature four of our province’s finest jazz “divas”: Jennifer Hanson, Stacey Nattrass, Jayme Giesbrecht and Jocelyn Gould, on some great standards, all arranged  by our own WJO musicians. Songs include All of You, Route 66, Summertime, and You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To. Thanks to Safe at Home Manitoba for making this program possible. The 30-minute concert can be accessed through: winnipegjazzorchestra.com from March 1 (8:00pm) until March 15.
Thanks to Manitoba Safe at Home 


​Free Jazz Quintet Concerts
It Could Only Happen With You
​Click here at 7:30 on Monday, March 8 to access the free concert.
Jeff Presslaff Quintet - WJO live stream concert on Monday, March 8 from 7:30-8:30 pm 

A show about reuniting with old friends and making new ones after our year apart. New and old tunes, originals and beautiful, but rarely heard tunes from some of the great jazz composers.

MPTF live stream quintets - every second Monday from 7:30-8:30 pm
Thanks to the Musicians' Performance Trust Fund for supporting these concerts.

The link goes live fifteen minutes before the concerts. You cannot access the concerts at any other time.
Streamed at the ROYAL MTC TOM HENDRY DIGITAL STUDIO. 

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Feel free to phone us (204-632-5299) or email us at tickets@winnipegjazzorchestra.com anytime. (If you leave a message on the phone line we will answer it within 48 hours.)
WJO in the news:
​Article: Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra preparing to get back into the swing of things, https://www.lh-inc.ca/ , Lögberg-Heimskringla, Stefan Jonasson, Published January 15, 2021 

Article: CJNU Presented: The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, https://www.cjnu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CJNU-2020_June_final-2-min.pdf , CJNU Nostalgia Notes Community Newsletter, Published: June, 2020

Article: Celebrating Christmas in the City, https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communities/column/Celebrating-Christmas-in-the-city-565734412.html  , Canstar Community News, RoseAnna Schick, Published: December 3, 2019 10:12 AM

Article: WJO Bringing Charlie Brown Christmas to Winkler, http://www.winklermordenvoice.ca/split_document.aspx?doc=WinklerVoice112819.pdf&fbclid=IwAR1np4jwY1IIN_gD3_opGFFqP0gEWCaUlt8fo44VTN7d6uaO5YQ_2oPN3-8 , Winkler Morden Voice, Published: November 28, 2019

Article about WJO involvement in the formation of the Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra. https://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon-jazz-orchestra-continues-big-band-tradition-1.4591236,  Joseph Bernacki, CTV News Saskatoon, Published Thursday, September 12, 2019 7:16PM CST 

The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra was
​nominated for a 2019 Western Canadian Music Award
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 Jazz Artist of the Year!


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  • Free ticket exchange privileges within a concert. Can’t 
make the afternoon show? Catch the evening show instead. 

  • Unable to attend a concert? Return your tickets to us at least 48 hours before the concert and receive a tax receipt! 
(Note: During the COVID pandemic our 48 hour limit will be waived. Contact us if you feel unwell before a concert and we will exchange your ticket, send you a tax receipt, or refund your money.)
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MUSIC IN THE ‘PEG

Calendar of Big Band and Jazz Events

Generously Funded by:

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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
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Education Sponsors:

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Concert Sponsors:
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Radio Sponsors
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Special Event Supporters
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The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra acknowledges that we perform in venues on Treaty One Territory; the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples and the homeland of the Métis Nation.
The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra welcomes and shares its performance and creation of music - a universal language to all people irrespective of culture, race, sexuality, ability, language and gender.

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Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra Inc. / P.O. Box 68114, Osborne Village, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3L 2V9
Main: 204-421-9398 / manager@winnipegjazzorchestra.com     Box Office: 204-632-5229 / tickets@winnipegjazzorchestra.com