Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival

"Awesome festival this year!!! Thank you to all the artists, vendors and volunteers for putting this great event together. Fantastic lineup!! Thank you for the fun weekend!!"

"Looking forward to attending again this year. We attended for many years before the pandemic closed everything down. The music lineup is always eclectic, amazing fine art, good selection of wines. We left Seattle for Tucson, but will be returning this summer to attend the Festival, and we are bringing friends from Eugene with us. We will be staying at the new Marriott on the waterfront, it looks amazing! Got our 3 day passes! PS - we met Sue Foley at the 2022 Festival, and looking forward to hearing her again this year."

"We have attended in years but it was cancelled due to covid and lockdowns for 2 years (crazy!). 2022 was fantastic music - a fun mix of blues, Latin, fusion jazz, and straight ahead. Great lineup: Diane Schuur, Poncho Sanchez, Yellowjackets. Sue Foley (who I did not know) was a fantastic blues set on Friday, and I hope they bring her back sometime. The Festival has excellent fine artists, good food, and a nice mix of wines. We will be back for a fun 3-day weekend in 2023 - we already have our tickets!"

"(New 2022) I originally wrote this review in 2015 and nothing has changed. I’d hoped with time off from covid and more the organization & event would have gotten better. But no. One month out of the 2022 festival is when they finally released the music talent names- and again it’s lame basic talent. I am sure the food and wine will be too. This could be so amazing if they’d put forth effort. Go big or go home!!! ….Hopefully 2015 will be better than last year. The festival seems to be going downhill, almost as if they are trying to kill it. Same entertainment as previous years- while good, let's get some new blood PLEASE! And the wines? They contract in the big name distributors, so we see way too many California and supermarket mass produced wines. Meanwhile, we are living in the Northwest- home to some of the most amazing wines in the world!! Maryhill is local, but they are no where near as good as whats from Oregon or even farther out in the Washington hills. And then there is the food. We are a captive audience inside the fence. We need to eat. Last year it was hot dogs and fried food, and basically that was all!! Nothing that goes with wine (cheese? Pizza?) and nothing edible. This could again be a wonderful, worldwide event if the right people got their acts together. Esther Short park is the perfect place for this. Bring back the glory days. Get decent wine, food & music!!"

"The increased rules for no outside food, no outside water put a damper on the event. Water had to be purchased in 8 oz. bottles for $1. That seems counterintuitive when running a wine festival. Esther Short Park is a lovely setting. The Saturday line up was lower energy than last year. But Shemekia Copeland and her band were worth waiting for. Probably will not attend again."