Festival International de Jazz de Montréal

Stacey Kent is an American jazz singer in the mold of the greats, with a legion of fans and a host of honors and awards including a Grammy nomination, and most recently, the Prix Ella Fitzgerald from Montreal Jazz Festival. 

Melody Gardot is a musician of rare and remarkable sensitivity and balance. She is a singer whose voice is instantly recognizable, distinguished by haunting delicacy and penetrating, emotional precision. 

18-time Grammy winner Béla Fleck—the world’s premier banjo virtuoso and a celebrated musical adventurer—will be performing at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal as part of a trio in the summer of 2026.

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah — formerly Christian Scott — is a two-time Edison Award-winning, six-time Grammy Award-nominated, Doris Duke Award in the Arts awardee. He is a sonic architect, trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, designer of innovative technologies and musical instruments.

Taj is a towering musical figure — a legend who transcended the blues not by leaving them behind, but by revealing their magnificent scope. As he traced origins to the American South, the Caribbean, Africa, and elsewhere, he created entirely new sounds.