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It honours jazz legend and piano virtuoso Oscar Peterson, chronicling his rise from Montreal’s working-class Little Burgundy neighbourhood to world renown.
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Peterson’s daughter Céline Peterson, a producer at the Kensington Market Jazz Festival in Toronto, believes her father would be thrilled and especially proud of seeing his story in a Heritage Minute.
“I think this is one of the ones that would really overwhelm him,” she said.
“People all over the world are familiar with the Heritage Minute, and it’s such a monumental form of recognition.”
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