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Each summer, the SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival brings diversity to the city. The range of music is as wide as the prairie horizon — and even more so this year with mainstage headliner Brett Kissel. Running from June 23 to July 2, the festival attracts tens of thousands of music fans to ticketed and free shows.

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In person: Lobby of the Bessborough Hotel. Phone 306.652.4700. Hours are noon to 7 p.m. during the festival.

Online: www.saskjazz.com

Ticket prices: Vary greatly, from $70 for Amanda Marshall and Michael Franti at the mainstage to $15 covers at Amigos and The Capitol to $65 for Blind Boys of Alabama at the Broadway Theatre (oops, sold out) to $35 for Kurt Rosenwinkel Caipi Band at the Bassment. There’s a long list of free shows as well.

VENUES

Many. Many. Several are outdoors like the TD Mainstage at Bessborough Gardens and PotashCorp Club Jazz north of the Bessborough. There are small, informal performance spots on Second Avenue, at Fourth Avenue and 22nd Street, City Hall Square and Spadina and 22nd Street. There’s music in select clubs and restaurants: The Capitol Music Club, Drift Sidewalk Café and Vista Lounge, The Bassment, Amigos, Finn’s Pub at the Parktown Hotel, Second Ave. Grill, Scarlet restaurant in the Sheraton Hotel. Don’t forget the Broadway Theatre. There’s even the odd show in the lobby of the Bessborough.