14th Annual Pender Harbour Jazz Festival: The Line Up Is Complete! The Line-up is Sweet! Plan to be there! September 17,18 &19, 2010. Tickets on sale NOW!

Tickets - here
Program at a Glance - here
Musicians - here

Mix great jazz of all styles with small venues on the Sunshine Coast of B.C. and you have the phenomenon that is the Pender Harbour Jazz Festival. First established in 1966 by the local Music Society, the Festival is now an annual destination event for a crowd of jazz lovers from across the Pacific Northwest and Canada.

The first Festival was in 1996, produced by the Pender Harbour Music Society to provide world class music for the locals, and create a destination event for tourists. It has now blossomed into one of the best jazz Festivals in Canada.

Why?  First of all, as many styles as possible are offered each year, so audiences are exposed to 40's swing, Gypsy, fusion, straight up, Dixieland, Afro Cuban and more. Wherever your musical heart lay before you came, you are bound to find something new to love. Next, most of the events are free. Seriously. This year, there are 30 performances, and only 4 are ticketed. A free jazz clinic with Miles Black is available to students of all ages on Friday afternoon.

Groups play all around Pender Harbour, in tiny villages and corners (too small to be called villages) smack dab on the ocean. At an alfresco performance, fish boats launch, birds wheel, and the smell of seaweed fills the air. A local water taxi plies the Harbour, dropping off folks at venues. Great local crafts are available at the Copper Sky's Craft Affaire, to get you going on your Christmas shopping. To attend this Festival is to immerse yourself in Harbour life.

The 14th Annual Pender Harbour Jazz Festival September 17-19, 2010 is headlined Friday night by renowned vocalist, Dee Daniels. Dee sang gospel in her stepfather's church choir in Oakland California, then travelled to Europe in the '80's where she was lucky to have performed with Sarah Vaughn. A vocalist of extraordinary range and expression, Miss Daniels is also known for her social conscience. In November 2009, Miss Daniels performed a concert of Duke Ellington's Sacred Music in a benefit for the people of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

The headliner Saturday is a young up and coming sax player from NYC, Dmitry Baevsky. He is an old soul, no doubt about it. Sweet melodic sound, beautiful mellow phrasing, and impeccable technique, he plays straight ahead jazz at its very, very best. Baevsky just signed with Sharp Nine records, and his cd should be out by the time he reaches the stage in Madeira Park.

Others in the '10 line-up include a Big Band from Cuba, Wil Campa y su Gran Union, all youth and verve, Nancy Ruth, Astrid Sars, Zapato Negro, Swing Patrol, Doc Fingers, and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Django Reinhardt's birth, Pearl Django from Seattle. Check our our Program-At-A-Glance for all the performers in our line-up.

Bring a blanket, umbrella, sun hat, your walking (and dancing!) shoes and get yourself to one of the best jazz festivals in Canada: Pender Harbour's 14th Annual Jazz Festival, September 17,18,19, 2010. Make a list of ticketed events you plan to attend, and be ready on June 15th .... events sell out quickly!

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Sponsors, Friends & Advertisers Information

We would like to thank our major sponsor and friends of the festival.  Click here for our sponsors list.

If you would like to sponsor our Festival, become a "Friend" of the Festival or place an ad in our Program, click here to find our information sheet.

If you are interested in taking part in the Artisans Craft Affaire on Saturday, September 17 contact Cindy from Copper Sky Cafe & Gallery for full details, info@earthlycreatures.ca

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Volunteer Information

If you would like to volunteer at our 2010 Festival, please click here to find our volunteer information

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Plan to be at our best show ever.

A fabulous ARTISAN'S JAZZ AFFAIRE craft fair is being organized by Cindy Cantelon of Copper Sky Gallery, with net proceeds benefiting the Jazz Festival.  We would like to thank Cindy for participating with us.  Talk to Cindy for space.  Don't hesitate, there are a limited number of available spaces and they will go quickly.  

Each year, we offer a music clinic for high school students on the Coast.  Thanks to the Oak Tree Market and the Province of B.C. for their support of this continuing tradition.

To remind you of the good time everyone had last year, check out photo gallery from 2009 at this page.

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