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Concerts may be changed or cancelled due to health regulations or travel regulations.
​Your subscription will be pro-rated accordingly.
We thank you for your patience.

WJO 2021 - 2022 Season

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Carpathian Blues - Cancelled
with pianist and composer John Stetch

Sunday, Oct 25, 2020
1:00 pm
• 4:30 pm • 7:30 pm
Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG)
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​ - Muriel Richardson Auditorium

Jazz music, since its humble beginnings in Congo Square, has been a fusion of folk, classical and popular music. As the artform spread, jazz embraced and adapted music from all over the world, giving us countless flavours and variations. To help the WJO explore folk music in jazz, six-time Juno nominee John Stetch joins the group as our special guest. Stetch, over the span of his 15 recordings, has fused classical and folk music with his own fearless creativity, boundless imagination and humour.

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Basie Straight Ahead - Cancelled
with conductor and trumpeter Derrick Gardner
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​Sunday, Nov 15, 2020
1:00 pm
• 4:30 pm • 7:30 PM
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Seven Oaks Performing Arts Centre (SOPAC)

Oh, that Basie sound! One of his band members famously said, “Count don't play nothin', and it sure sounds good.” Steeped in the blues, Basie's straight-ahead swing was the style arrangers like Frank Foster, Sammy Nestico and Neil Hefti channelled when they arranged for his band. With the help of trumpeter Derrick Gardner, who spent some time in Basie's trumpet section, the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra will explore music from those legendary composers, alongside other Basie staples, for a feel-good show that'll get toes tapping.



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Cheek to Cheek - tentatively postponed
We will feature Charito in a future season

Sunday, February 14, 2021
1:00 pm
• 4:30 pm • 7:30 pm
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Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG)
​ - Muriel Richardson Auditorium

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From Tokyo, Japan, Filipino vocalist Charito grew up listening to Nat King Cole and Stevie Wonder. Her highly personal, expressive vocal style reflects the breadth of her musical interests, from straight-ahead soulful ballads to hard-swinging grooves. When asked her greatest wish, she stated, “to make jazz a household word.” It's that passion that brings her all the way from Tokyo to Winnipeg next February for a Valentine's Day to remember!​

Giants of Jazz - Exploring the Music of Miles Davis and John Coltrane - tentatively postponed
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Sunday, March 21, 2021
1:00 pm • 4:30 pm • 7:30 pm
Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain (CCFM)
​ - Pauline-Boutal Hall
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In 1959, Miles Davis released Kind of Blue. The record's sparse melodies, simple chord progressions and extended improvisations struck a chord with listeners. Sixty years later it is the best selling jazz record of all time and one of the most important recordings ever made. John Coltrane's ferocious, endlessly searching sound and torrential soloing were the perfect foil for Miles. He would go on to record many of his own important records and become another giant of jazz. Adapted for big band, the WJO explores Miles and Trane, two musicians who forever changed the jazz landscape.

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The Best is Yet to Come - tentatively postponed
with vocalists Jennifer Hanson and Del Baroni

Sunday, May 2 2021
1:00 pm
• 4:30 pm • 7:30 pm
Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG)
​ - Muriel Richardson Auditorium

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Del Baroni's silky vocals have been a fixture on the Atlanta music scene for more than two decades. Together with Flin Flon-born singer Jennifer Hanson and a handful of surprise guests(!), the WJO's season finale promises a program of signature swing chart-toppers that are synonymous with the sound of Big Band.

The WJO's 2020/21 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!

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The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra is Generously Funded by:

Funding assistance provided by the Manitoba government. Aide financière accordée par le gouvernement du Manitoba.
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Education Sponsors:

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The Play-Along App project is supported by the Government of Canada’s Healthy Communities Initiative.
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We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada.
Nous reconnaissons l'appui financier du gouvernement du Canada. 

Concert Sponsors:
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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.
Music is an agent of hope. A dynamic and valuable device that helps us to heal and to bring us together. The First Peoples of Canada understood this and used music to reunite, resolve and reconcile.  In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that WJO activities take place on Treaty Territory – land that was maintained and earnestly cared for by Indigenous peoples before European settlement.  Manitoba is the original lands of Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and is the homeland of the Métis Nation.  We acknowledge that Winnipeg benefits daily from Treaty 3 water that comes from Shoal Lake 40.  It is with sincere sentiment that we recognize the mistakes of our recent and distant past.  In working towards a Canada that benefits us all, we commit to seeking a greater understanding of Canada’s diverse cultural relationships through continued work with Indigenous communities; we commit to live in ways that honour and respect the treaties that were made on these territories; and we commit to stewarding the land in harmony for all who will come after us.
- Please refrain from wearing any fragrances or scented products as other patrons are allergic to them.
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- Please do not attend if you do not feel well. Call the box office at 204-632-5299 to arrange to go to another concert.

Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra  / Box 68114, RPO Osborne Village, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3L 2V9
Main: 204-421-9398 / [email protected]     Box Office: 204-632-5299 / [email protected]