Category: jazzfest

wrawesome: 2017 UPTOWN WATERLOO JAZZ FESTIVAL FRIDAY July 21st,…



wrawesome:

2017 UPTOWN WATERLOO JAZZ FESTIVAL

FRIDAY July 21st, 2017

Waterloo Town Square stage

11:00am  Youth Jazz Ensemble
12:30pm  Club Django Toronto
 2:00pm   Dave Young
 3:30pm  Jason White Trio with AManda Kind
 5:00pm  Torq Percussion Quartet

Waterloo City Hall stage

6:00pm The Shuffle Demons
7:30 Emilie-Claire Barlow
9:00 Busty & the Bass

SATURDAY  July 22nd, 2017

Waterloo Town Square stage

12:30pm  Cadence
 2:00pm   Reverse
 3:40pm   Adi Braun
 5:00pm   Saturday Night Superstars

Waterloo City Hall stage

10:30am  Youth Jazz Ensemble
12:00am  The Koopa Troop
 1:30pm   Modus Factor
 3:00pm   Laila Biali
 4:30pm   Tim Louis & the Ambassadors
 6:00pm   Huu Bach Quintet
 7:30pm   Barbra Lica
 9:00pm   Matt Dusk

SUNDAY  July 23rd, 2017

Waterloo City Hall stage

10:30am Youth Jazz Choir
12:00am Joni NehRita
 1:30pm  Robi Botos & Paul Novotny
 3:00pm  Brass Transit

For more information visit the Uptown Waterloo Jazz Festival web page
[note: *lots* of Javascript … too heavy to load on my cellphone]

 For those of you attending the festival this weekend.  

Why I’m not going back to the Sunlife Financial UptownWaterloo…



Why I’m not going back to the Sunlife Financial UptownWaterloo Jazz Festival this weekend

I am very disappointed in the Festival this year.  Not because of the music, it’s as good as always.

The audience had to get through a security check before gaining admittance because we are presumed guilty.  A guard stuck her nose in my husband’s water bottle, presumably to make sure he wasn’t smuggling in alcohol.  I’d forgotten my own water bottle in the car, but not having it with me didn’t spare my own even worse invasion of privacy as the guard perused the contents of my bag.  

A festival stops being free when the price is an invasion of privacy. 

It looks like they’re trying to catch folks smuggling alcohol in.   so as not to have to buy it on site, they probably don’t realize the only reason someone might choose to smuggle it in is because they can’t afford to buy it there.  Possibly people will learn not to bring water bottles, but instead buy that onsite too.

Not very inviting.  I’m not doing that again.