Montréal International Jazz Festival

Ranked as the world’s largest jazz festival by Guinness World Records, the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal has been synonymous with a passion for music for over three decades.

Every year, North America’s French-speaking metropolis welcomes global music fans to 10 days of jazzcentric celebration, where fans of all types of jazz-related music rub shoulders with aficionados of the genre in its purest form.

The Festival hosts some 30 countries, 3,000 entertainers, 1,000 concerts and activities—two-thirds of them free – in 15 concert halls and on 8 outdoor stages, welcoming more than 2 million visitors every year.

Among the legends who have appeared are : Dave Brubeck, Stéphane Grappelli, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Oliver Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, John McLaughlin, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Diana Krall, Tony Bennett, Vic Vogel, Herbie Hancock, Paco de Lucia, Astor Piazzolla, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Charlie Haden, Oscar Peterson, Wynton Marsalis, Uzeb, and B.B. King.