The 41st annual Optimist International Band Festival continues with the Jazz Bands this week. Adjudicator Gordon Foote, and a Sturgeon Heights jazz band director, Kathy Byrne chat with Michael Wolsh on Morning Light. Missed it? Watch it here!

The 41st annual Optimist International Band Festival continues in Winnipeg this week. But we now switch from concert bands to jazz bands. Former Winnipegger Gordon Foote is one of the adjudicators this year. He is a professor in the Jazz Studies Program of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music. Before that, Gordon spent 26 years teaching in the Jazz Studies Program at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec. Gordon joined Morning Light host Michael Wolch Thursday morning along with Kathy Byrne who is the jazz band director at Sturgeon Heights. Kathy has competed in deveral Band Festivals over the years.