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Get
ready for the world's best jazz festival, The Montréal Jazz
Festival, which will run from June 27 to July 7 this year.
The biggest festive celebration of jazz music is offering advance
ticket sales for the first block of seven concerts.
The
complete schedule for indoor concerts (150 total) and free outdoor
concerts (350 total) will be announced the beginning of May and in
mid-June, respectively.
The
2002 edition of this major event, presented by General Motors of Canada,
in collaboration with Labatt Bleue, will be welcoming many jazz greats,
including trumpeter, composer and arranger, Wynton Marsalis, the recipient of
eight Grammy Awards.
Two
great singers will be appearing in Montréal for the first time
at the Festival, for a double-header at the Salle Wilfred Pelletier
of Place des Arts: Omara Portuondo, the only female vocalist in the
mythical BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB, who is to Cuban music what Edith
Piaf is to French song, and South African singer Miriam Makeba, seen
largely as a prime symbol of the struggle against apartheid.
Equally
exciting, Dianne Reeves, who recently won a Grammy for "Best
Jazz Vocal Album" with The Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan,
and sang at the closing ceremonies for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics,
will seduce audiences at the Théâtre Maisonneuve by breathing
new life into jazz standards with her always laudable voice and virtuosity.
There
are many, many more artists on the line-up -- for more information
on the festival, click here.
For
more information on other attractions in Montreal, click here.
