About the Festival

For ten days each summer, the city of Saskatoon bursts into song as the SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival plays host to hundreds of world class artists. Over 60,000 hungry music fans devour the sounds of jazz, blues, funk, pop, and world music each year, with a program that spans as many genres as it does continents.

About the organization
The Saskatchewan Jazz Festival, Inc. (SJF) was incorporated in 1992 and is owned by the Saskatoon Jazz Society. The mandate of SJF is to stage an artistically significant annual Festival of jazz and related music. SJF is a nonprofit organization and registered charity.

SJF is governed by a board of directors and employs a permanent staff of three. Over two hundred volunteers are recruited each year for the ten days of the Festival.

Mission
The Saskatchewan Jazz Festival Inc. is an international jazz festival that fosters, promotes and presents jazz music in its diverse forms to the people of Saskatchewan.  The festival provides opportunities for the professional development of Saskatchewan musicians and a variety of educational experiences for the people of Saskatchewan.

Vision
That Saskatchewan people enjoy opportunities to be involved with jazz in a festival of music that is recognized internationally because of its high quality performances to capacity audiences, financial self-sufficiency, sense of community ownership and cultural impact.

Board of Directors
Lyle Bolen – Chair
Paulette Traynor – Vice Chair
Spencer Early – Past Chair
Dave Nielsen – Treasurer
Sheldon Corbett – Member
Bob Eaton – Member
Louis Christ – Member
Irene Seiferling – Member
Brian Storey – Member
Heather Griffith – Member
Rick Peddle – Member
Lars Nissen – Saskatoon Jazz Society Liaison