All subscribers of the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra are also a members of our corporation and as such are invited to our Annual General Meeting on Monday, September 28, 7:00 PM. Please request the Zoom link before September 27  from manager@winnipegjazzorchestra.com.

WJO  2020-2021 Season updates being installed.

​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
   July Update
I hope you are all healthy and stay that way. We miss you all and can’t wait to see you again.

​Thank you so much to those of you who have bought your subscriptions already. Our last subscriber draw will be on this Friday, July 31. The winner will receive a complimentary subscription identical to the one they have purchased.

We will adapt concerts to the new reality. The audience size will be a fraction of the usual audience size, and there will be a two meter distance between family groups. Be assured that we will meet or exceed the recommendations for cleaning and sanitizing. Chairs and touch points will be sanitized before and between concerts. We ask that you keep a six foot or more distance from the other patrons on entrance and exit. We welcome everyone in the audience to show us your creativity by using your most interesting mask. We will also have masks available. We will waive our no-refund policy and ask that patrons stay home if at all ill. 

We are thinking of eliminating the intermission as an additional safety measure. Please let us know your thoughts.

We have planned a wonderful 2020-2021 season. If some concerts have to be cancelled, we will let you know immediately and will refund that portion of your subscription. Our box office is available by phone at 204-632-5299 or by email at tickets@winnipegjazzorchestra.com. A printable copy of our season can be downloaded here, and you can download an early-bird subscription form here. There will quite likely be a few small changes as we start our season in October, so please refer to our website for the most up to date information.

The health of our ticket holders, musicians, volunteers and staff are very important to us.  We hope to see you all again safe and sound when we start the 2020-2021 season. Thank you for staying with us to share the joy of live big band music. 

Joan Gillis, Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra

A statement of solidarity with Black Lives Matter

The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra stands in solidarity with people of colour to recognize our failings as a society to address and extinguish the inequality experienced by African-Americans and other marginalized minorities including, in Manitoba, our indigenous population. We denounce systemic racism and violence. We took the day on June 2, Blackout Tuesday, with other music and arts organizations to listen to the voices telling of horrific injustices and systemic issues. We will continue to listen to these communities and we will find opportunities to support them.
 
Jazz music originated in the African–American experience of oppression and has evolved through the contributions of mostly African-American musicians. Now enjoyed by (and performed by) people of all ethnicities and backgrounds throughout the world, we recognize and acknowledge those who developed jazz and big band jazz music.
 
Further, we urge jazz lovers to support local, Canadian, and International jazz artists of colour by purchasing their music.
 
The musicians, staff, volunteers, and Board of Directors of the WJO all understand that silence is not an option. We welcome information about other organizations that we can partner with. Our society has to correct the systems that endanger health and safety of minorities, systems that hold people from achieving and keeping wealth and status, and to correct individuals biased preconceptions.
 
The WJO supports the dignity and value of people of colour as we continue to bring you this music we all love.
 
The WJO
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WJO in the news:
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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 



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