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CTV News
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Inaugural jazz festival strikes a chord in Windsor's Via Italia
The inaugural Electric Avenue International Jazz Festival seen in Windsor, Ont. on July 5, 2025. (Robert Lothian/CTV News Windsor) A new outlet for Windsor's jazz musicians took off on Saturday afternoon with the press of a valve. Rhythms from the Electric Avenue International Jazz Festival echoed down Erie Street from the WindsorEats Food Hall. 'The way sometimes I think about it is, it's most often sort of contemporary, improvised, conversational,' explained Russ Macklem, a Windsor-Detroit-based musician who helped organize the show. 'It's a mostly instrumental version of contemporary Black music.' The festival began Friday evening and will continue into Saturday night, with musicians from Windsor, Vancouver, Toronto, and Detroit, including Macklem himself. Windsor's proximity to Detroit has made it a home for the 'evolving art form' of jazz, Macklem said. 'Because of the influence of Detroit, and not just jazz, but really all kinds of Black music, Windsor has a pretty diverse musical community, kind of thanks to that,' he said. Macklem said the goal is to make the festival an annual part of Windsor's jazz landscape each summer. For more information on the schedule for the show click here.
CTV News
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Live jazz festival coming to Windsor's Via Italia
The Electric Avenue International Jazz Festival is all set to come to Windsor's Via Italia. The festival will take place this weekend, beginning Friday and running through Saturday. Some highlights to look forward to include Windsor's JUNO-nominated artist, Russ Macklem, who will be joined by Detroit bassist Michael Abbo, Toronto's Sam Dickinson, and Vancouver's Nick Bracewell, Detroit's Kasan Belgrave Quintet, and the Detroit/Windsor Tenor Sax Battle between Stephen Grady Junior of Detroit and Len Temilini of Windsor. Local favourites The New Standard, Organization Trio, Assumption Jazz Band, and Russ Macklem Detroit Quintet will finish off the weekend. Wondering when this all takes place? Here's a full schedule: Friday, July 4 Electric Ave Festival Quartet on the steps of St. Angela Merici Church – 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. The New Standard at the Medica Pharmacy Bocce Courts – 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. For both Friday events, you are asked to bring your own lawn chair. Saturday, July 5 Assumption Jazz Band – 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Andrew Levasseur's Organization Trio – 2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Detroit/Windsor Tenor Sax Battle – 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Kasan Belgrave Quintet – 5:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. Sam Dickinson Trio – 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Russ Macklem Detroit Quintet – 9:15 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. No outside drinks will be permitted for any of the shows, as it is a licensed area.
