Guelph Jazz Festival

The Guelph Jazz Festival is trying something different this year: the 2025 Guelph Jazz Festival will be FREE.

Bold, boundary-pushing performances, open to everyone.
No tickets. No paywalls.
Guelph Jazz is committed to making adventurous creative music accessible to the broadest audience possible.

In that spirit, a free festival is being offered this September while continuing to care for the music’s creators and offering opportunities for you, the audience, to support the festival in many different ways.

Come gather, come listen, come celebrate live creativity in Downtown Guelph.

September 12th through 14th, 2025.

For more information about the 2025 artists, please click the link 

The 2025 lineup is:
Alex Samaras Meets Judy Garland with Steven Noronha & Allison Au
Aline’s étoile magique
Balance (Marcus Elliot & Michael Malis)
Bellbird
Guelph Youth Jazz Ensemble + Aline Homzy
Liberté Anne/ Dan Loughrin/ Nicola Miller/ Julie Richard
Nicola Miller’s Living Things with special guest Lori Freedman
no beginning, no end (Bea Labikova/ Germaine Liu/ William Parker) with special guest Patricia Nicholson
Massyr Ensemble
Patrick O’Reilly plays the music of Ken Aldcroft
Pursuit Grooves + Jessica Houghton & Nidhi Baadkar
Queen Mab: 40 years on!
Rani Jambak
Saxophone Choir
Six Hands, One Piano
Six Turntables
TDot Batu featuring Mateus Vidal
Thanya Iyer
Tom Richards’ Monophilia
Trash Panda Brass
Turning Jewels Into Water x Infinite Lynn
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