When the Fort Langley Jazz & Arts Festival returns as a virtual festival this September, Richmond-based jazz guitar player, Alvin Brendan will be featured as the event’s rising star jazz award winner.
Brendan, a 22-year-old fourth year music student at Capilano University, earned a $1,000 scholarship and performance slots at the festival with his band and as a soloist at the jazz education faculty concert.
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Organizers are asking for public opinion on what people would like to see in September
This year’s in-person edition of the Fort Langley Jazz and Arts Festival has been postponed to July 23 – 25, 2021 in light of the global pandemic and restrictions for large public gatherings.
In the meantime, festival organizers are exploring the possibilities and opportunities of a virtual festival running online and are seeking public input.
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Fort Langley Jazz and Arts Festival is moving to September long weekend.
Originally scheduled to take place in July, festival organizers have decided to move the event to the Sept. 4 to 6 weekend “given the unprecedented time.”
“Bringing the community together to enjoy music and art is what we do, but with the COVID-19 outbreak, we need to take precautions,” said Karen Zukas, a festival executive director.
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With the opening day of the 2020 Fort Langley Jazz & Arts Festival about four and a half months away, our team continues with caution, care and optimism in planning the 2020 Fort Langley Jazz & Arts Festival, July 24 – 26.
The health and safety of festival attendees, volunteers and artists is our top priority, and we are monitoring the situation closely. We will continue to follow the guidance of health authorities and public officials and to make well-considered and fact-based decisions.
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Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne is kicking off Jazz in the Vine with a performance at Glasshouse Estates Winery March 19.
Fort Langley Jazz and Arts Festival is offering up a new set of concerts across the Fraser Valley.
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Langley, BC (February 19, 2020): Few of the finer things in life complement each other as beautifully as wine and jazz. In fact, there are events and festivals celebrating this uniquely magical pairing around the globe — from Toronto and Manhattan to Southern California and Southern France.
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Few of the finer things in life complement each other as beautifully as wine and jazz.
In fact, there are events and festivals celebrating this uniquely magical pairing around the globe — from Toronto and Manhattan to Southern California and Southern France.
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Winner will receive a scholarship of $1,000 and a main stage performance opportunity.
When the Fort Langley Jazz and Arts Festival (FLJAF) returns for two full days of live music in July, an up-and-coming jazz musician will be featured as the festival’s Rising Star award winner.
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Blues legend Dalannah Gail Bowen will play the Fort Pub and Grill on Saturday, Jan. 18, through a series hosted by the Fort Langley Jazz and Arts Festival (FLJAF).
With African and Cherokee ancestry, Dalannah has been making music for forty years on the Canadian blues, rock, and soul scene.
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Jayleen Stonehouse will give the final Jazz in the Fort performance of 2019 – and perhaps, one of the final musical performances of the decade; the jazz and blues artist will be delivering a tribute to legendary musician Dinah Washington on New Year’s Eve.
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Behind an unassuming grin and underneath a pair of Doc Watson glasses, lurks a mosaic of musical genres – perhaps most prominently, jazz.
Paul Pigat will play at the Jazz in the Fort’s monthly concert series, an initiative launched earlier this fall by the Fort Langley Jazz & Arts Festival (FLJAF).
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Jennifer Scott is bringing her jazz trio to Saba Café on Nov. 30, performing as this month’s featured guest with Jazz in the Fort’s concert series.
Dave Quinn, artistic director for the Fort Langley Jazz & Arts Festival, said Scott is one of the most important jazz artists working in Canada and the U.S. today.
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The queen of Vancouver jazz vocalists, Jennifer Scott is the featured guest at Jazz in the Fort monthly series presented by the Fort Langley Jazz & Arts Festival on November 30 at Saba Café.
Vancouver musician Al Foreman has dabbled in a lot of different genres, particularly one he calls New Orleans gumbo.
Now, through Jazz in the Fort’s monthly concert series, Foreman is coming to Beatniks Bistro in Fort Langley Oct. 26 to play a wide mixture of sizzling tunes.
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Fort Langley, September 30, 2019 -- The Fort Langley Jazz & Arts Festival is accepting applications from professional, emerging and young jazz musicians interested in performing at the festival, July 24 to 26, 2020.
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