It would be hard to find a more devoted convert to the TD Canada Trust Vancouver International Jazz Festival than Ramona Boos, or anyone who goes to it for a better reason: she's into it because it's all about social music.
Boos, 33, is an administrator for a condominium presale company and works downtown, so she would have been right in the middle of the jazz festival from the very beginning.
She first went six years ago and immediately wondered, “Why didn't I know about this, and how is it that I came to miss this amazing experience? To say I liked it would be a gross understatement of the way that I felt. I loved it."
That year she spent four out of five lunch hours a week at the TD stage by the Vancouver Art Gallery and went back after work. “And of course, all weekend." That said, “I may not have purchased a ticket," she says."You don't necessarily have to spend money to afford the privileage of being entertained by such artists."
John Orysik, who runs the festival, wouldn't have a problem with that at all. He's proud of the fact that 130 of the festival's more than 400 events are free to the public.
For Boos, going opened up a whole other world that she says is “just waiting to be experienced, one that people may not know about."
Boos, 33, is an administrator for a condominium presale company and works downtown, so she would have been right in the middle of the jazz festival from the very beginning.
She first went six years ago and immediately wondered, “Why didn't I know about this, and how is it that I came to miss this amazing experience? To say I liked it would be a gross understatement of the way that I felt. I loved it."
That year she spent four out of five lunch hours a week at the TD stage by the Vancouver Art Gallery and went back after work. “And of course, all weekend." That said, “I may not have purchased a ticket," she says."You don't necessarily have to spend money to afford the privileage of being entertained by such artists."
John Orysik, who runs the festival, wouldn't have a problem with that at all. He's proud of the fact that 130 of the festival's more than 400 events are free to the public.
For Boos, going opened up a whole other world that she says is “just waiting to be experienced, one that people may not know about."
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