Calgary Music Association president John Hyde told the Calgary Sun, "It's a sad day for everybody involved. I know everything that could have been done was done to keep this festival alive."

Festival founder and producer Marc Vasey told the paper, "This is a sad day for the arts community, but we still have the C-Jazz festival which keeps progressing and I hope to see even more this year." He had told the Sun before the 2005 festival that the event was profitable in both 2003 and 2004, and was "doing well."