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OttawaJazzScene.ca is giving away a free 2013 Ottawa Jazz Festival Bronze pass – a $185 value. And you could win it! Imagine all the great music you'll be able to hear in the 2013 Ottawa Jazz Festival lineup, from June 20 to July 1.

No matter what your taste in music, the Festival has it!

• renowned jazz musicians like Wayne Shorter and Wynton Marsalis
• a good taste of R&B, soul, or blues with Aretha Franklin, Mavis Staples, and Dr. John & The Nite Trippers
• Latin music with Chucho Valdes, the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Danilo Perez, or Roberto Lopez Afro-Colombian Jazz Orchestra
• big bands ranging from traditional (Vic Vogel) to drenched in soul and R&B (David Murray with Macy Gray)

If you love vocal jazz there's local fav Kellylee Evans, and Montreal jazz wunderkind Nikki Yanofsky, American singer-pianist Patricia Barber, innovative Swedish singer Lina Nyberg, and Cape Verdean original Carmen Souza.

You can also hear the cutting edge, whether it's in the NYC mainstream (Jason Moran, Tom Harrell, Steve Kuhn. Kurt Rosenwinkel, Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein, and Bill Stewart), or in the avant-garde (William Parker, Hamid Drake, Ken Vandermark).

There are big bands from Scotland and Norway, and groups from France and even Lithuania. And to top it all off, a star-packed Great Canadian Jazz series, with two of the Jazz Juno winners from 2013, along with many musicians from Western and Central Canada who haven't played in Ottawa recently.

It's easy to enter the contest - No purchase required.

Read more: Don't miss the 2013 Ottawa Jazz Festival lineup - Win a Jazz Festival Bronze Pass!

Congratulations to Shaina Lipsey, who win a pair of tickets to hear the final Geggie Series concert with William Carn, Tara Davidson, Tim Bedner, and Jim Doxas at the NAC Fourth Stage on Saturday, May 25! The tickets were generously donated by the National Arts Centre.

Read OttawaJazzScene.ca's interview with John Geggie about the 2013 Geggie Series including this concert.

The correct answer to our skill testing question, "Where do three of the musicians in this concert teach?" included information like this:

• William Carn is an instructor for both Humber College and the University of Toronto Jazz Studies program.
• Tara Davidson is a member of the faculty at York University in Toronto, ON.
• Tim Bedner is a performance instructor for jazz guitar at Carleton University.

and could be found at nac-cna.ca/en/community/event/4553 where there is also more details about the concert.

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Congratulations to Marie-Ève Eyahpaise, who won a pair of tickets to hear a jazz guitar concert you will never hear anywhere else, on Saturday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m. at [details].

Guitar Now! is bringing together some of Canada’s (and the world’s!) finest guitarists for a 3-day series of workshops and concerts right here in Ottawa on May 3 to 5 – for the first time ever. This new festival has generously donated these tickets.

The "Jazz and Beyond" concert will feature renowned jazz guitarists Ben Monder, Vic Juris, Mike Rud, Roddy Ellias, Matt Warnock, Brandon Bernstein, Tim Bedner, and Garry Elliott.

Read more: Awarded! a pair of tickets to hear Guitar Now!'s unique jazz guitar concert on May 4