The Open Door

A History of Jazz in Niagara

July 20, 2022 The Brown Homestead Season 2 Episode 4
The Open Door
A History of Jazz in Niagara
Show Notes

The Niagara Jazz Festival is a highlight of summer in the Niagara Region and this year the festival comes to The Brown Homestead for the first time. In this episode, social anthropologist, Black music historian and musician Wade Pfaff shares a history of Canadian jazz in the context of his research into local Black history.