Vancouver International Jazz Festival announces headliners Julian Lage, Veronica Swift, and SUMAC with Moor Mother for summer event

Guitarist, genre-crossing jazz singer, and supergroup are to play at June event

GUITARIST JULIAN Lage, vocalist Veronica Swift, and post-metal group SUMAC are set to perform at the 2024 Vancouver International Jazz Festival.

Tickets will go on sale here on March 21 at 10 am.

New York-based Lage, whose latest Blue Note album is Speak to Me, is to play the Vancouver Playhouse June 25, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society announced.

Swift brings her unique meld of jazz with bossa nova, blues, industrial rock, funk, and more to the same venue on June 24.

And supergroup SUMAC—guitarist-vocalist Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom, Mamiffer), drummer Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists), and bassist Brian Cook (Russian Circles, These Arms Are Snakes) hit Fortune Sound Club on June 21, with an opening set by poet and musician Moor Mother.

The 39th annual fest runs June 21 to 30, 2024, headquartered at Granville Island.

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