{"id":627975,"date":"2026-04-25T15:42:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627975\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:42:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:42:41","slug":"made-in-manitoba-celebrating-winnipeg-jazz-orchestras-juno-award-win-steinbachonline-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627975\/","title":{"rendered":"Made in Manitoba celebrating Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra&#8217;s Juno award win &#8211; SteinbachOnline.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for <a href=\"https:\/\/podcastville.ca\/shows\/41\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Made in Manitoba<\/a>. This weekend we&#8217;re celebrating the Juno win by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winnipegjazzorchestra.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra<\/a>\u00a0(WJO). The group won Jazz Album of the Year: Group\u00a0for the album &#8220;East Meets West: Connections&#8221;, which features new works by Canadian composers Fred Stride and Jean-Nicolas Trottier<\/p>\n<p>This was the first time the group was nominated for a Juno, with this being their eighth album release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Richard Gillis is Artistic Director of the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, and he&#8217;s joining us tonight for the conversation about the award win and the story behind the album &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.winnipegjazzorchestra.com\/cd-details---connections--east-meets-west--winnipeg-jazz-orchestra.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">East Meets West: Connections<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0which builds on the WJO&#8217;s desire to foster connections between composers and jazz performers.<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago, the WJO approached Montreal-based Trottier to propose a collaborative commission. Without hesitation, he suggested Fred Stride, whom he had met in 2011 when Stride was presenting masterclasses at the University of Montreal. The collaboration resulted in the stunning nine-movement suite featured on this album.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for listening to Made in Manitoba.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time for Made in Manitoba. This weekend we&#8217;re celebrating the Juno win by the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra\u00a0(WJO).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":{"0":"post-627975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-winnipeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}