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Khac Chi:
The Khac Chi - Sounds of Vietnam features two of Vietnam's premiere musicians, performing exquisite music on rare and unique instruments native to Vietnam. These virtuoso artists offer an intriguing glimpse into the rich musical tradition of Vietnam and its 4000-year history. Famous for their musical skills innovation throughout Vietnam, the Khac Chi takes you on an adventure in sound.Their rare talents and superb musicianship have won them numerous awards for excellence, as well as many invitations for international appearances. |
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Sapeca: The founding members of Sapeca met in 2005 and began playing choro music together. After performing together with another Choro group for CBC television, Liam and Steve formed a musical connection and with the added ferocity of Marios's guitar playing created a dynamite combination. Sapeca plays a mix of traditional Choros, Baiaos and Sambas with humour and sensitivity. Sapeca roughly translates to mean cheeky or playful. |
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Brody:
Brody creates an exciting blend of original music that fuses world, folk, and jazz idioms. Exploring conversational improvisations, organic curveballs and the potential to count past four, this unique trio has something for everyone. Led by violinist Jaron Freeman-Fox with Robin Layne on marimba and percussion and David Spidel on acoustic and electric bass, Brody was recently featured at CelticFest Vancouver and is currently working on material for their first CD to be recorded this summer. |
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Subnautic: “...in the classic tradition of the chill-out rooms jazz pianist Jacob Elijah Aginsky brings his Subnautic project a sense of urgent creativity while retaining a healthy respect for his antecedents. A protégé of jazz legend Herbie Hancock, Aginsky departs from straight-ahead and infuses electronica and downtempo with an educated flare.... truly a delectable experience.” (Rizga, The New Yorker, 3/02) Subnautic will be performing at the same time as a digital painter. Visuals are painted, transformed, morphed in front of your eyes as you listen to the spell-binding music
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Bruce Freedman Trio:The Bruce Freedman Trio's music is a mix of collective improvistation with themes to springboard from, "running free through the trackless terrain of collective improvistion yet never sounding lost, aimless, or dispirited." (Marke Andrews, Vancouver Sun) "and they play jazz music like there is no more important mission in this world."(Mark Corroto All About Jazz ) This group has a chemistry that works: is uncontrived, full of feeling and honesty. The music this quartet features is all original, with emphasis on spontaneous improvisation within a wide range of elements. Saxophonist, Composer: Bruce Freedman; Bassist: Clyde Reed; Drummer: Stan Taylor
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Four Eyes: (four people in the group who all wear glasses... har har) - Jennifer Hodge on bass, Catherine Toren on piano, Jens Christiansen on tenor sax, and Mike Treadway on drums - is a forward -thinking group of passionate young jazz players from in and around the Vancouver area. They focus on playing music that is fresh and interesting, but accessible to audiences from all walks of life. From sultry, unique originals to Brad Mehldau-esque harmony-tweaked arrangements of Lennon-McCartney songs to swinging Bud Powell and Duke Ellington tunes, this group aims to give their all every time they play and leave their listeners feeling happy. |
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Blackberry Wood : Blackberry Wood is a wonderful combination of oldstyle country/ragtime/circus music and up to date grooves such as live Hip-Hop, Trip-Hop, Funk, D&B, and IDM.
It all started when a friend asked Kris and Corinne if they would Play a New Years Gig, four days before New Years. They quickly put a strange mix of original material together and it was a hit, they where invited back for the next New Years Party.
After a few more gigs and Kris writing a huge batch of very cool songs they decided to invite more musicians into the Blackberry Woods.
First to come waltzing along was Justine Fischer a dazzling, beautiful and talented Stand up Bass Player.
Then Stumbling down the hill, a little intoxicated, came the really really crazy drummer Amrit Basi. not far behind Amrit was the Dreamy Katheryn Petersen squeezing magic from the accordion. Last, straight out of the Blue Sky, fell Jenny Gruber blasting away on her big brass Trumpet.
With Corinne playing Saxophone, Mandolin, and singing like a nightingale, Kris playing Guitar, singing his raspy half Country half Rap/Hip-Hop heart out, and adding a bit of modern lap top enchantments, this little Orchestra conjures up some of the most wondrous music for the whole world to enjoy!
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Blue Island Trio: Steel guitarist Tim Tweedale brought together the Blue Island Trio in Fall 2003 at the behest of a Vancouver ethnomusicologist, who required some Hawaiian music for a Luau. The band was quick to realize a shared passion for bluegrass, jazz, Latin and Indian music. Fusing these styles led to the creation of a sound filled with sweet and sorrowful melodies, compelling rhythms and deep grooves. In its first year together, the trio has been featured on CBC Radio One's North by Northwest and Studio One Sessions. They have also played at a number of festivals throughout the lower mainland including the Listen Up! Festival, the Harmony Music Festival, the Dragonboat Festival and First Night. In January 2004, the group completed its first full-length album, Resonance (available in Vancouver's independent record stores, and through the group's website). Currently, the group is busy playing festivals, clubs and gatherings throughout the lower mainland, and has completed its second album, Beachglass, slated for official release in early 2007. |
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Wes Mackey:
"Wes Mackey is a Bluesman who has a totally unique, individual sound and identity and very few emerging artists can lay claim to those very important and refreshing traits. Wes Mackey has definitely paid-his-dues in full and he's got a special gift that he wants to share …. After all, we know what Real Blues should sound like, right? Wes Mackey has arrived." Andy Griggs of Real Blues Magazine
After more than 46 years in music audiences everywhere are finally taking notice of Wes Mackey. After an incredibly successful European tour in November 2006 Blues Revue Magazine reviewed one of his performances in Germany for its Annual Edition writing “refreshingly old school…He had to beg the audience to let him leave the stage!” Even while working on his next album, going on the road with Chicago blues diva Zora Young, planning his next tour and shooting a new piece for TV you will find Wes consistently affable, energetic and funny. It's an attitude that took years to refine and it's an attitude that he always brings to the stage with his upbeat earthy swingin' style.
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Whiskey Jar:
Hailing from the dark hills and hollers of Main Street, WhiskeyJar features Chris Suen on the clawhammer banjo, Mark Vaughan playing mandolin, Mike Zinger on guitar and lap slide, our fantastic fiddler Ajineen Sagal and Edward Porter holding it all down on the doghouse bass.
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Jacob Elijah Aginsky: "...one of the more dynamic young figures on the jazz circuit, a self-described "cheerleader" for a scene that many have written off as moribund. When asked, the pianist insists that [the scene] is still packed with a vibrant pool of talent, and that the music itself is vital and evolving. He uses his own career as an example -- Aginsky has released five solo albums in as many years and plays in over a dozen groups, ranging from the jazz-funk ensemble Mingus Amungus to such Brazilian bands as Vivendo de Pão and Boca do Rio to his own straight-ahead jazz ensembles and electronica chill-out project, subnautic." (Kay, Bay Guardian, 1/02) |
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Jess Hill: Like the intuition implied by synchronized movement, Jess Hill's music reminds you of something you thought you'd forgotten. Anchored in the tendencies of jazz, folk, and blues, Jess tells stories: cyclones and downpours, hovering birds, white skies. Seven years ago, she picked up a careworn guitar. A little while later she grabbed hold of a banjo. Since then, she has collaborated with acclaimed spoken word trio Tons of Fun University at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival and played to spellbound audiences in cafes, bars and living rooms from Vancouver to Cape Town. 2006 marked the release of her first full length album Road. In the dim light of midnight living rooms and in the hearts of singing shadows, Jess Hill is building something beautiful.
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Yael Wand :
True to her divergent roots and wanderings, Yael Wand delivers songs with the sensibility of folk and allusions to jazz, all set in the landscape of a wild country. Her shift from big city to small town plays out in her music. Yael sings urban lullabies along side tales from the rustic cabins of the backwoods. She navigates the political terrain of the middle-east with the same ease and passion as she does the wilderness of the Canadian west. Her classical vocal training and 17 years of live performance make her a powerful performer. She draws in an audience with the sound of her voice, clear and passionate, and captivates with the colour and substance of her songwriting. |
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Dharmakasa: An alchemy of spiritual music that fuses ancient instruments and musical traditions from around the world with unique, modern instrumental inventions. What do Japanese monks, Australian Aborigines, African Shamans, Indian traditional musicians, and mad scientists have in common? Absolutely nothing! Except for the fact that they have all contributed to the musical inspiration behind the band Dharmakasa. |
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Kurai Blessing Mubaiwa: Kurai Blessing was born in 1977 in the village of Murewa in Zimbabwe. He began playing mbira at the age of 6, learning from his father, his uncle, and other village elders. He has been singing and dancing since the first moment he could talk and walk, growing up in the rich cultural environment of his father’s village. He often played mbira and drums and danced in traditional ceremonies and other public gatherings. Currently living in Vancouver, Kurai plays in the Zimbabwean group Feso. He will be performing solo at the In the House Festival.
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Cris Derksen: Cris Derksen is a young half-Cree cellist, emerging from the classical structure of UBC's Music program and is sharing the Principle Cellist of the UBC Symphony Orchestra title. She is a diverse musician, easily melding into hip-hop, rock, folk, country, or whatever type of music to bring an intense ball of musical passion to her work. Cris has played in professional concert halls, outdoor festivals, overseas, on the streets in crummy bars and classy venues, collaborating with a wide variety of musicians. Currently Cris is using a Loop Station to create a multi-dimensional sphere of sounds. She uses her voice in spoken word and song to layer melodies on top of each other to construct a song form in a way that is uncharted for most classical players. Using sounds from her inherited past Cris mixes the traditional with the contemporary over and over again in both the cultural world as well as the music sphere.
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Emily Cheung:
Emily Cheung studied with Bruce Pullan and Marisa Gaetanne. Recipient of numerous awards and scholarships for her solo work from Kiwanis, BCAPAF Provincial Festival and other music festivals, she has also been recognized with a Vancouver Women’s Musical Society Bursary. Emily plans to continue her specialization in Early Music at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag in the Netherlands. Currently enjoying her second season with the Vancouver Chamber Choir, Emily has been chosen to represent British Columbia in the prestigious National Youth Choir twice and will represent Canada in the World Youth Choir in South Africa this July. In other musical endeavors, Emily was just seen as the lead role of Phyllis in the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of UBC’s production of Iolanthe, and can be found every Sunday singing in The Holy Rosary Vocal Quartet at Holy Rosary Cathedral, Vancouver. |
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Martin Reisle: Martin Reisle began playing the guitar in 1996 when he was 12 years old, on an instrument that he and his father reassembled from non-functional remains found in the attic of the local church. Since then, he has acquired less spurious instruments through which to channel his expression, studied under the world renowned classical guitarist Michael Strutt, and learned to write about himself in third person. Martin is also quite an active composer, and while he spends most of his time writing or arranging music for his own or other artistic pursuits, he has yet to write any serious solo music for the guitar (something he has intended remedy for some time now). He performs quite regularly with the musical/theatrical ensemble 'Maria in the Shower'.
His favorite colour is brown
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In the House Festival 2007
