Vancouver Wine and Jazz Festival is at Esther Short Park, Vancouver, WA

Saturday, August 26th is Jazz Night. Come join us at this world class festival

11:45a - 12:30p             TBA

12:45p - 1:30p                Adriana Wagner Jazz Quartet

Trombonist and composer Adriana Wagner draws inspiration from a wide array of influences, combining traditional and modern jazz sounds. Based in Portland, Oregon, she was selected for the Young Jazz Composers program and was named one of the inaugural recipients of the Music Oregon Echo Fund grant to help create her debut album, to be released in 2023.  

1:45p - 2:30p                  The Ne Plus Ultra Jass Orchestra

Since 2016, The Ne Plus Ultra Jass Orchestra has been delighting audiences with the music of the roaring 20s and Depression era 30s.  Under the leadership of master showman Sammuel Murry-Hawkins, the ensemble transports audiences to the golden age of Hot Jazz and Sweet Dance Music, specializing in the tunes of Cab Calloway, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, and George Gershwin. The Ne Plus Ultra Jass Orchestra is recognized as one of the most authentic early jazz ensembles on the West coast.

3:00p - 4:15p                  Sue Foley

Sue Foley is a multi-award-winning musician, and one of the finest blues and roots artists working today and has shared the stage with greats such as B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Jimmie Vaughan, and Billy F Gibbons.  Her latest album, Pinky’s Blues is a raw, electric guitar driven romp through the backroads of Texas, and debuted at #4 on the Billboard Blues Albums chart. In 2020, she won “Traditional Blues Female” at the International Blues Music Awards in Memphis, holds the record for the most Maple Blues Awards including “Best Guitar Player,” and has earned three Trophées de Blues de France.

4:45p - 6:00p                   Alison Brown Quartet

Alison Brown throws out the textbook when it comes to playing the banjo and the result is a sound that blends the rugged drive of bluegrass with the harmonic sensibilities of jazz, earning vast acclaim and a GRAMMY award in the process.  After touring with Alison Krauss and Union Station, she formed The Alison Brown Quartet in 1993.  Alison has recorded 12 critically-acclaimed solo albums and received multiple GRAMMY- nominations.  Alison is the co-founder of the internationally recognized roots music label Compass Records Group which Billboard Magazine has called “one of the greatest independent labels of the last decade.” Compass Records Group oversees a catalog of nearly 1,000 releases across multiple label imprints, including Red House Records, Green Linnet and Mulligan Records.

6:30p - 7:45p                  Bonerama Brass Band

In its 25th year, Bonerama is a New Orleans-based trombone fronted brass rock band that fuses everything that has made that city’s music famous into a genre defying gumbo. The band - 3 trombones, sousaphone, guitar & drums – has taken the best elements of rock, soul, fusion, pop, jazz, funk, brass, gospel, and blues to forge its unique sound.  Equally adept at delivering extraordinary originals or blistering covers of artists as diverse as Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, and The Allman Brothers, Bonerama’s distinctive, inimitable, genuine, one-of-a-kind sound is unmatched, high-energy, and fun.  It’s current full-length album, “Bonerama Plays Zeppelin” (Basin Street Records), was one of the best-selling albums at the 2019 New Orleans Jazz Fest. The band’s most recent release, the “Empty World” single features Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers.  

8:15p - 9:30p                    Spyro Gyra

"Music Legend" is usually marketing hyperbole.  Not so with Spyro Gyra, which has long been known to its peers in the contemporary jazz world as a “well oiled road machine” due to its relentless schedule of nearly 50 years of performing. To date, they have logged more than 10,000 shows on six continents and released 35 albums, garnering platinum and gold records along the way. Spyro Gyra rose from humble beginnings in Buffalo, New York in 1974 to their current international - and legendary - prominence in the jazz world. They continue to exhibit how to remain among a relative handful of artists who are able to mark 50 years in the business next year. Their energy and joy in concert mirror their unmatched musicality,  Join us for a virtuosic closing performance on Saturday night after a day FILLED with great music!

• Fri: $25 Advance / $35 At the Gate
• Sat: $40 Advance / $50 At the Gate
• Sun: $35 Advance / $45 At the Gate
• 3 - Day Pass: $100 Advance Only (Includes 3 $5-glass Wine Scrip)
• 2 - Day Pass: $80 Advance Only (Includes 2 $5-glass Wine Scrip)