Montreal International Jazz Festival

What Montreal International Jazz Festival does

The Montreal International Jazz Festival (Festival International de Jazz de Montréal) is a Montréal-based for-profit private event producer that organizes one of the world's largest annual jazz festivals, running a roughly ten-day program of free outdoor shows and ticketed indoor concerts across multiple downtown venues. The 2026 edition is scheduled for June 25 to July 4, 2026, indicating a stable annual operating cadence. Beyond headline concerts, the organization produces complementary live music events and offers curated tourism itineraries that package the festival experience for out-of-town visitors.

The festival's product surface is hybrid: a free outdoor component (typically sponsor- and concession-monetized) coexists with a paid indoor ticketed program, allowing the producer to capture both mass-market audiences and higher-margin headline buyers. It has also formalized an artist-exchange partnership with Ottawa Bluesfest, linking programming between Canada's two flagship summer music festivals and enabling shared talent cost leverage and cross-market audience exposure.

Revenue mechanics draw on ticket sales for indoor/paid events, sponsorships tied to the free outdoor footprint, concessions, municipal and tourism authority support, and tourism itinerary packaging. The organization operates with a small core team (11-50 employees per available data), supplemented by seasonal production contractors during the festival window. Geographic concentration is in the Greater Montréal / Québec market, with secondary reach into the broader Canadian festival ecosystem via the Ottawa Bluesfest link.

Name

Montreal International Jazz Festival

Website

https://montrealjazzfest.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Montreal International Jazz Festival is a Montréal-based event producer that organizes an annual ten-day jazz festival featuring free outdoor shows and ticketed indoor concerts, plus curated tourism itineraries, for mass consumer audiences and visitors to the city.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Live Music Festival

NAICS

Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events with Facilities (711310), Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events without Facilities (711320), Performing Arts Companies (7111)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Music Festival Organizers & Promoters (MPAGAAAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Concerts & Music Festivals (THAJAFAA)

Keywords

• Live music festival
• Jazz performances
• Cultural events
• Music concerts
• Festival programming

Headquarters

HQ city

Montréal

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

The Montreal International Jazz Festival organizes and produces an annual multi-day live music festival in Montréal, Quebec, showcasing jazz and related genres across multiple stages. Programming combines free outdoor public performances with premium ticketed concerts featuring internationally recognized headliners and emerging artists.

Product overview

The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal is a single annual event offering — a multi-day music festival that showcases jazz and various musical genres. The festival runs annually, with the 2026 edition scheduled for June 25 to July 4. As an event-based offering rather than a software product, it does not include separate modules, sub-products, or a platform architecture.

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Products and services

• Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Annual multi-day live music festival in Montréal, Quebec, showcasing jazz and related genres via main and side stages, combining free outdoor performances and premium ticketed concerts. The 2026 edition runs June 25 to July 4.
• Free Outdoor Performances Open-air, no-cost performances delivered during the annual festival at on-site stages, accessible to the general public without ticket purchase.
• Ticketed Headline Concerts Premium, ticket-required concert performances featuring internationally recognized headliners and breakthrough artists during the annual festival.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Ottawa BluesfestcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOttawa Bluesfest and Montreal International Jazz Festival maintain an artist exchange relationship within the Canadian festival circuit. When artists gain viral recognition at Montreal (such as Angine de Poitrine's free show drawing crowds spanning several blocks), they can be elevated to headlining positions at partner festivals like Ottawa Bluesfest. The festivals operate on overlapping timelines and share talent within the regional music ecosystem.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Austin City Limits Music Festival: Top-tier U.S. multi-stage music festival with multi-day ticketed programming. Comparable as a scaled festival operator with established brand IP and city-level tourism pull.
• Coachella: Premier multi-stage music festival in North America. Comparable as a multi-stage ticketed music festival franchise operating at the top end of the global festival market, though broader in genre.
• Lollapalooza: Established multi-stage music festival with multi-day programming and significant ticketed-event scale. Comparable in operational format and tier of brand recognition.
• Bonnaroo: Major multi-day U.S. music festival with multi-stage format. Comparable as a large music festival operator with ticketed shows and external artist programming.
• Glastonbury: One of the world's largest multi-stage music festivals. Comparable in tier of global recognition and multi-stage, multi-day operational model, though broader in genre than a pure jazz festival.

Direct peers

• Newport Jazz Festival: Long-running U.S. jazz festival with multi-stage programming and headliner-driven ticketed shows. Directly comparable in format (multi-day jazz showcase) and audience positioning.
• Ottawa Bluesfest: Major Canadian summer music festival with multi-stage programming (headliners include Sheryl Crow, Angine de Poitrine) that operates an active artist-exchange partnership with Montreal Jazz Festival, making it the most direct comparable peer.
• North Sea Jazz Festival: One of the largest indoor jazz festivals in the world, held in Rotterdam. Directly comparable as a multi-stage jazz showcase operating at significant scale with international artist lineups.
• Montreux Jazz Festival: Switzerland's flagship annual jazz festival — a direct category competitor producing a multi-week showcase of jazz and adjacent genres for international audiences, with a comparable mix of free and ticketed programming.

Regional players

• Toronto Jazz Festival: Regional Canadian jazz festival operating in Toronto with similar free-plus-ticketed programming model and overlapping audience demographic in the Canadian jazz market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/mtljazzfestival
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