Around Town: Jazz Festival

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Summertime, and the livin’ was easy at the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival’s VIP tent Friday night.
Dozens gathered there for a reception hosted by prominent businesswoman Sheila Whyte, owner of Thyme & Again. The company has been the official catering sponsor for the festival’s VIP tent for at least 16 years.
Whyte and her husband, Clayton Kennedy, invited friends and clients to the party.

The evening, blessed with idyllic weather, featured Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite on the festival main stage in Confederation Park.
“Tonight is about taking a break and celebrating summer,” Whyte told Around Town.
Guests ranged from prominent lawyer and humanitarian Warren Creates to Rick Watson, who manages the kitchen at The Ottawa Mission shelter, to journalist Chris Cobb, who certainly gets around on the music festival circuit; he’s just put out a new book chronicling 20 years of Ottawa Bluesfest.

Invited guests enjoyed the live music, fresh air and fun at a reception held in the VIP tent Friday, June 27, 2014, during the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)

From left, lawyer and humanitarian Warren Creates with party hosts Sheila Whyte from Thyme & Again and her husband, Clayton Kennedy, in the VIP tent on Friday, June 27, 2014, during the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)

Peter Honeywell from the Council for the Arts in Ottawa with arts adviser Natalie Stern at a reception hosted in the VIP tent during the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Friday, June 27, 2014. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)

Elizabeth Kaulbeck and her husband David Caulfield attended a reception hosted in the VIP tent during the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Friday, June 27, 2014. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)

From left, Michael Scrivens, Heather Bradley, Karen Reynolds and Dr. Jonathan Angel hung out at the VIP tent during the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Friday, June 27, 2014. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)

Ottawa Citizen journalist Chris Cobb with his wife, Margot Sunter from Ginsberg Gluzman Fage & Levitz, in the VIP tent on Friday, June 27, 2014, during the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)

From left, Ottawa sommelier Debbie Trenholm with Leslie Coates in the VIP tent on Friday, June 27, 2014, during the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)

Rick Watson, chef and manager of food services at The Ottawa Mission, with his colleague, Kristyn Berquist, enjoyed themselves Friday, June 27, 2014, at the VIP tent during the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)

Joseph Cull is flanked by Carolyn Hunter, left, from the Ottawa School Breakfast Program and Renata Soutter from Propeller Dance at a reception held in the VIP tent held during the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Friday, June 27, 2014. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)

Wall Space Gallery co-owners Tom Barr and Patricia Barr at a reception held in the VIP tent during the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Friday, June 27, 2014. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)

From left, journalist and editor Jenn Campbell with her husband, Ottawa Citizen arts-editor-at-large Peter Simpson, and TD Ottawa Jazz Festival board member Tom Burrow and sommelier Debbie Trenholm in the VIP tent on Friday, June 27, 2014, during the festival. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)

Jeff Mains from Centrepointe Theatre with his wife, Debra Beauregard, at a party held Friday, June 27, 2014, during the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)

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