The WJO 2023 - 2024 Season

Trombone And Other Delights
featuring Audrey Ochoa 


Sunday, Oct 22, 2023
2:00 pm  
West End Cultural Centre (WECC)

The 2020 Western Canadian Music Award winner of Jazz Artist of the Year, Audrey joins the WJO for a can't miss evening of exceptionally elegant, highly original and powerfully lyrical jazz.

Kwassa Kwassa: Music and Dance of the Congo
with the Congolese band True Generation
Saturday, Nov 11, 2023
7:30 pm
Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain (CCFM) 

Music is the cultural bloodline running through the Congo and its influence stretches across the continent and beyond. It is at once a joyous dance, radiant happiness, poetry and prayer merged into a relentless groove guaranteed to get audiences out of their seats. Joining the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra is 8-piece Congolese band True Generation, led by the talented and charismatic Enee Nyelele, to showcase the fantastic music of the Congo.

Music of Our Time
featuring Sean Irvine

Thursday, Nov 30, 2023
7:30 pm
West End Culturel Centre (WECC)
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Music by Sean Irvine, Tetyana Haraschuk and Andrew Balfour present an evening of vibrantly textured, excitingly emotional and culturally resonant music that will live with you long after the final note fades.
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Elvis and the Grinch
special guests Quinn Greene, Helen White and Dave Greene

Thursday, Dec 14, 2023 
1:00 pm​ &  7:30 pm
West End Cultural Centre (WECC)

A Blue Christmas turns green when the King of Rock & Roll and The Grinch share a double bill at this unique yuletide concert with our special guests and the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra.

Women in Jazz 3.0
featuring the WWJO - Winnipeg Women's Jazz Orchestra

Thursday, March 7, 2024
7:30 pm
​West End Cultural Centre (WECC)
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Our annual Women's Day concert has an added opportunity for learning! In the afternoon, the WJO is hosting its third Women in Jazz Symposium. We welcome all to the women-led symposium, followed by an evening of music by the WWJO (including a student group to open the concert).
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Ellington's Great Paris Concert

 Sunday, March 24, 2024
 2:00 pm  
 Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain (CCFM)

In the early 1960's an extended stay in Paris was particularly fruitful for Duke Ellington and his musicians. The iconic bandleader would score and star in a movie, write and record an album and perform a memorable concert at the L'Olympia. That concert was recorded and released nearly a decade later - titled The Great Paris Concert - and was truly one of the great live band performances of all time. Join the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra as we celebrate that magical evening with performances of Kinda Dukish, Rocking' in Rhythm and other classics from the set-list of Ellington's Great Paris Concert.

Reeling In The Years: A Tribute to Steely Dan

Thursday, April 18, 2024
7:30 pm
West End Cultural Centre (WECC)

The distinctive 70's sound of Steely Dan is revived onstage again for one night only with the WJO and special guests Larry Roy and Leonard Shaw, keyboardist for The Guess Who.

Fascinating Rhythm: The Music of Gershwin

Saturday, May 11, 2024
7:30 pm
Sunday, May 12, 2024
2:00 pm
Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain (CCFM)

Harken back to a Golden Age of Music as we explore the exciting and eclectic career of one of the greatest jazz composers of all time. From Broadway standards to Rhapsody in Blue, we got you rhythm, we got your music and who could ask for anything more.
The WJO's 2023/24 season continues our tradition of classic arrangements, new compositions, surprise guests, old friends, talented young instrumentalists and vocalists, and themes that we think will pique your interest!