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Samara Joy to Receive Ella Fitzgerald Award at 2025 Montreal Jazz Festival
Samara Joy is set to receive the Ella Fitzgerald Award at the 2025 Montreal Jazz Festival. Thundercat and Natalia Lafourcade will also be honored.
Samara Joy is set to receive the Ella Fitzgerald Award at the 2025 Montreal Jazz Festival on June 28 at Maison symphonique, Place des Arts. At the inaugural Grammy ceremony in 1959, she became the first woman to receive an album of the year nomination (for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook). Neale, an emerging trumpeter on the Montréal music scene, is the fifth recipient of the award, which is given to young, university-level musicians who identify as members of visible minorities or Indigenous communities.
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