Date: November 22, 2024

Show Time 7:30pm

Doors Open: 7:00pm

The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra (WJO) is Canada’s first community-based, non-profit professional jazz orchestra. Founded in 1997 (registered charity in 2000), the WJO has matured to become an important part of Winnipeg’s cultural landscape, reflected in the ongoing support the organization receives from the Manitoba Arts Council, the Winnipeg Arts Council, the Winnipeg Foundation, and other sponsors. The mandate of the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra is to be an instrumental force in the promotion and development of big band jazz in Manitoba and beyond, through performance, composition, recording and education.

With a Little Help From My Friends:The Beatles Songbook

The WINNIPEG JAZZ ORCHESTRA explores the music of The Beatles with a unique big band take on classic compositions by perhaps the most influential band in the history of rock and roll.

The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, with singer Jamie Buckboro as our special guest, will play some Beatles favourites on NOVEMBER 22, 2024. Please join us for With A Little Help From My Friends: The Beatles Songbook.

The song-writing of John Lennon and Paul McCartney was a fruitful and fascinating partnership and, together, they generated hit song after hit song. The Beatles had been toiling in obscurity for years when success finally came, and it was a landslide. Often overshadowed by the cultural phenomenon that was Beatlemania was their magnificent song-writing that sounds fresh and inventive even today. Featuring songs arranged by Winnipeg's own: Niall Cade, Richard Gillis, Greg Crowe, Jeff Presslaff, Brady Gill and Neil Watson as well as Chico O'Farill's arrangement of All My Loving (Count Basie and his Orchestra: Basie's Beatles Bag) and Bill Holman's arrangement of Norwegian Wood (Buddy Rich and his Big Band.)

PCI Jazz band will be taking the stage right before the show!