Apr 29, 2025 11:53 AM
Vocalist Andy Bey Dies at 85
Singer Andy Bey, who illuminated the jazz scene for five decades with a four-octave range that encompassed a bellowing…
Vancouver, B.C.’s Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, which produces the TD Canada Trust Vancouver Jazz Festival, has announced that Sonny Rollins will kick off this year’s 22nd-annual festival with a concert at the Orpheum Theatre on June 22.
The festival, which runs for 10 days through July 1, will envelope the city with the sounds of jazz, blues, funk, Latin, fusion, electronica and world music with more than 400 concerts at venues large and small, indoor and outdoor.
More than 1,800 musicians from Canada and around the world will participate in this year’s festival, which includes 130 free concerts like the Gastown Jazz street festival (June 23–24), Canada Day on Granville Island and the Jazz at the Roundhouse extravaganza on the final two days of the festival.
For more information, visit: www.coastaljazz.ca
“It kind of slows down, but it’s still kind of productive in a way, because you have something that you can be inspired by,” Andy Bey said on a 2019 episode of NPR Jazz Night in America, when he was 80. “The music is always inspiring.”
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