By Francois Biber, CBC News, June 26, 2016
The first Jazz Festival had about 80 people back in 1987
What started out as a wild idea by a handful of jazz buffs in Saskatoon three decades ago is now Saskatchewan’s most popular music festival of the summer.
In 1987, Jim Hill founded the Saskatchewan Jazz Festival as the first artistic director, and he told CBC Radio’s Saskatchewan Weekend the first festival lineup featured a couple of performers who returned to the festival in 2016.
