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I’m interupting your regular jazz fest posting here to inform you about the fact that the seventy year old CBC Vancouver Radio Orchestra is being disbanded in November 2008. The pudits will tell you that radio orchestras are a dying breed (this was the last one here in the Americas, but such organizations are still flourishing in Europe). What has been forgotten is that the mandate of our national broadcaster is to promote and foster home grown Canadian talent in both the classical and jazz idioms. The CBC orchestra has been responsible for many commissions of new music by Canadian composers. Also the CBC has cut its Young Composers Competition and is currently removing most of its quality jazz and classical music programing from Radio 2.

If you care about classical and jazz art music in Canada, please sign the petition at savecbcorchestra.com

Our main workshop faculty has now been confirmed and bios are now up on our faculty 2008 page. We welcome the return of some familiar faces this year including Rob Kohler from New Orleans, Len Aruliah from London England, and Chris Tinidad and Brad Muirhead from here in Vancouver.
We welcome saxophonist Ed Orgill to the faculty this year (picture on right). Faculty bios are found on our site here.

The 2008 edition of the South Delta Jazz Festival will be held from July 7 – 12th, 2008. More information about this years events will be posted here and on our website over the next few months.