Montreal Jazz Festival, June & July 07

More reasons not to give your money to th Montréal International Jazz Festival Mafia. As I`ve said I used to enjoy this event but now avoid it like the plague. Well, they`re about 3 million bucks in the red, and now they`re trying to recoup the money by ripping off women and children.
From The Montréal Gazette June 18, 2007, Letters to the editor,

I bought three tickets to the jazz festival with my kids, our tradition, as we have done for 25 years.
I asked for the tickets to be mailed, and they said it would cost $6. I thought this was excessive but said okay. They charged me $18- for three tickets in one mailing.        

This kind of abuse makes a fun exercise not fun anymore.

Lorraine Semienchuck
Montréal

What did I say earlier, NOT FUN ANYMORE!!!!!
Avoid this event. It  embarasses the hell out of me and others as music loving Montréalers.
Mr. Simard and his henchmen should be ashamed of themselves.



Edited by Vibrationbaby - June 18 2007 at 16:37

I had a friend that went to see Mike Stern and he said the guy was uninspired just like the rest of the Montréal  "not really jazz " Fe$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$tival. 

Can you believe they had a band called "God Made Me Funky" on the main stage last night! Believe me I wasn`t there but I saw a clip of it on CFCF 12 a local news station. The master of jazz , Bob Dylan also played at our famous classical music concert hall, Place Des Arts which is another dinosaur of Montréals past.. And the monkeys who organize this spiritual lobotomy are still losing money. They won`t even let people on the site with bottles of water and from what I`m told a beer is going for $4.85 Can and since  our dollar is almost on par with the US dollar ,with the giant tip they expect it`s more than $5 US for a skunky warm Heiniken in a plastic cup.

Edited by Vibrationbaby - July 05 2007 at 17:01

Don't listen to what vibration can write; this festival is not only there for the money. It's a good festival. There is nothing like a Quebecor to say bad things about others Quebecors, or about Quebecors success. Vibration is a good exemple of this negative embiance among several quebecors. 

That's bullsh*t Vibration or maybe because you are too poor to attend some payable concerts. Anyway, there are many free concerts on this festival, and also some free guitar clinics etc...

Just for your information, the Montreal Jazz Festival is a non lucrative organisation;

Just a bunch of pigeons flocking to another rip-off. I`d really like to see their books. I have a friend who helps out with the financial end for the African Festival and he says that they ( the MIJF ) must cook their books. At least the African Festival takes their losses each year without whimpering to the federal government like the jazz festival does because of their ineptitude. Besides there were a lot of dismal shows this year including both the Marsalis brothers, John Abercrombie and that stupid airhead from the Cranberries who was playing so loud that even some of the organizers were telling people not to go!

Unfortunately the Gazette couldn`t publish my letter because it was too long and I refused to edit it.

Here`s another thing. These moneymongers are not only out to destroy the spirit of jazz but they`re also out to help wipe out the planet while they`re at it! The plastic cups they were selling the overpriced warm beer ( the biggest seller ) in were made of polostyrene #6 which is niether bio-degradable or compostable! Same with the dixie cups they were selling the coffee in. And just to make themselves look good and keep the  environmentalists off their back they had recycling bins for cans they weren`t even selling or allowing into the barricaded festival site!

Just for a joke I went down to Place Des Arts with a friend from out of town where this abomination  was taking place because I had other business downtown. I couldn`t believe they wanted to check my friend`s wife`s purse. Not the kind of  impression to give to the Americans who are starting to stay away from Montréal because of the rising Canadian dollar. At least I had the foresight to warn her in advance that someone with a grade two education would be searching her..

Anyway, the third Montréal International Nazi Jazz Festival that didn`t get a red cent out of me.

For those of you who don`t speak French  " de mauvaise foi " translates to  " You are a very nice man" in English and doesn`t have anything to do with rotten liver.


Edited by Vibrationbaby - July 10 2007 at 17:02

Prog.Sylvie wrote: This festival is still very popular, and every year, there is more and more sold out shows, and more people attend the outside and free shows and events. It's very positive.  This year edidion was fantastic according to the press and specialised journalists; it was more Jazz oriented, compares to the previous edition.

Edited by Melomaniac - July 10 2007 at 17:07

Melomaniac wrote: Vibrationbaby wrote: For those of you who don`t speak French  " de mauvaise foi " translates to  " You are a very nice man" in English and doesn`t have anything to do with rotten liver.     Well, "foi" in that context actually means faith, not liver !

I knew that. It`s a French expression which just doesn`t translate that well into English and liver is spelled f-o-i-e. It`s just like ostie siboire and other coloqiuolisms.