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Freeflow: Freeflow has been distributing its brand of funk-soul brother, for the past 5 years, most recently expanding it's influence to the North American stage. An eclectic collective, Freeflow masterfully blends hip-hop, reggae, and rock. This is music for and of the people.
Chocolate Soup: Chocolate Soup is a Vancouver-based rock fusion quartet that will make you want to dance. This crew has been in the heart of the city's music scene since early 2003. With Tess Kitchen on lead vocals and trumpet, Kim Model on lead guitar, Jake Wyman on drums and Joel Etherine on bass, they can mix rock with reggae, punk, ska and funk and melt it into a style of their very own. These four have chemistry and charisma that has brought the dance back in to rock and roll. When the Soup is playing, leave your worries at home and come out for a night of fun and laughs.
Po' Girl: Vagabond lullabies, hobo-poetry, inner-city blues. These urban minstrels pen harmony drenched melodies to warm your toes. Guitar, banjo, fiddle, clarinet, and harmonica create sultry and rustic ambienChe blues, the wail of a gypsy fiddle, punk-rock street poetry, a cajun love song, and depression-era jazz, mix it all up and add some old R&B. The sound of Po' Girl is elusive yet rich with musical references. It's all in there.
Yvette Narlock: Yvette has played on many stages for intimate crowds to festival crowds of 10,000 people. On stage, she is a storyteller, a seductress, a siren with a big lush voice, and a guitar style that's accomplished, ranging from intricate finger picking to ripping rhythms. Her songs are diverse and emotionally evocative, dealing with social and political commentary, sexuality, introspection, and, of course, love.
Ora Cogan: Ora Cogan has for the past seven years graced the streets and stages of Europe, Mexico, and Canada with nothing but her luscious and haunting voice, her soulful turn of phrase, and her sweet and savvy guitar playing.
Kytami Music: Kytami is a Vancouver-based electric violinist who has been playing for 23 years. One of the most versatile and sought-after musicians in her field, she has rocked with some of the best players in punk and metal as well as performing and recording with reggae, hip hop and jungle producers, DJ’s and MC’s. In 2002 she released her first album independently, titled “Conflation”. Currently she hosts Wednesday nights at DV8 Lounge and performs regularly with Third Eye Tribe, Lownote and Blackie LeBlanc.
MAGI: MAGI is an a cappella trio comprised of three Vancouver musicians : Andi Alexander, mezzo-soprano, Nathan Zadworny, tenor, and Peter Alexander, baritone.  What makes them special is their ability to sing convincingly in any style, from jazz to classical, early music to gospel.  Many of their contemporary pieces are original arrangements by Ms. Alexander, who is an arranger and composer of choral music.  
Amicus Music Duo: Clarinet and piano duo.
Heart Expressions: Ya-wen Vivienne Wang, composer, piano, percussion; Deborah Caldwell, composer, piano; Gabriel Alden, composer, vocals.
In this musical chic flick, Caldwell, Alden and Wang make up an engaging trio that gushes with passion and intimacy. Love need not be a guilty pleasure, as these three composer-performers artfully demonstrate. Deborah Caldwell's lyrical torch tunes plumb the jazz standard for all its heartbreak and hope. On the surface simple, her rich melodies breathe a fresh breath of honesty into a timeless idiom. Gabriel Alden combines voice text and electronics for a maximum impact performance that lays bare the memory of a spiritual encounter. Ya-wen Wang is known far and wide as a broadcaster, performance chameleon and musical genius, but when she falls, she falls hard!
Karma Sohn: With a background in classical piano, Karma branched out into jazz ensemble, musical theatre, experimental and new music.  She has studied piano performance and composition with Paul Plimley, Giorgio Magnanensi and Andrew Czink.  On piano, keyboard and accordian, she has shared the stage with locals Peggy Lee, Masa Anzai, Skye Brooks and Jesse Zubot.  
Karma has worked for many years as a music instructor, accompanist, and composer for independent film and theatre.  She is currently writing for voice, guitar and keyboard as well as re-interpreting the music of late 19th and early 20th century piano masters.
Sangha:Sangha is a Tar, Oud, Tombak and Tabla Quartet from Vancouver B.C. Like its instrumentation suggests Sangha is a combination of a number of improvisational traditions, predominantly Arabic, Persian and Indian. Due to each traditions emphasis on listening, subtlety and space the music comes off as purposeful and organic.
Rayhan Music Group: "Rayhan" features Turkish Saz player Erdal Kun, Emad Armoush, a local Professional Flamenco and Arabic musician, and Denis Franck for whom exploring rhythms using various percussion and techniques has been his focus for the last 15 years. Together, and using unique instruments, such as the Nay (Arabian Flute), the Turkish Saz, Flamenco guitars, percussion and voice they create a sensitive mix - a glimpse into different cultures through the sounds of their instruments and the flow of melodies, songs, and rhythms.
Adama - World Jazz Ensemble: The music of Adama is exploring the boundaries of classical, contemporary jazz and world music. Adama is creating an exciting and original material, rich with Middle-Eastern and Flamenco sounds, unusual melodies and complex rhythms.
The members of Adama are: Itamar Erez - Guitar/Composition, Tony Nickels- Oboe/English Horn, Laurence Mollerup- Bass, Stefan Cihelka- Percussion
Kristin Lindell + Steven Charles: Kristin Lindell, a jazz vocalist trained at York University, has appeared at festivals in BC and Ontario. Guitarist, Steven Charles, trained at Capilano College plays in several local Vancouver bands. Together they create a spicy set of world-fusion tunes from Brazilian bossas, to African folk songs and original roots tunes.
Feso: Central to FESO music projects is the desire and the skill to combine some of the oral traditions of Zimbabwe with the contemporary cultural expressions.
The outcome empowers musicians and audiences alike.
push3: From Amsterdam to New York, Australia, and Chile, push3's debut CD "blue chair" has flown around the world to critical acclaim. During the "In the House Festival" they will be performing music from that CD as well as new material from their upcoming release. push3 is Kathryn Sutherland, vocals and guitar, Melanie Sereda, cello, Albert Klassen, bass. "Wonderfully Strange" Mike Usinger, The Georgia Straight.
Kyra Folk-Farber: Soprano Kyra Folk-Farber was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has performed in such venues as Jordan Hall in Boston, and the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver. Her versatility is highlighted in a repertoire ranging from medieval chant to Klezmer to twenty-first century compositions. She currently sings with the acclaimed Vancouver Chamber Choir under conductor Jon Washburn.
Ridley Bent: Ridley Bent is an entertainer, a crooner, a gee-tar player and a songwriter with a knack for detail. He’s hell on wheels with a microphone whether he’s fronting a band or on stage all by his lonesome. He has mastered the art of telling a story. Love and murder, dope and glory, politics and pop culture – this is Ridley’s addiction. Throw in some break beats, phat bass, sweet country and a melody and you’ve got yourself an earful of ‘Hick Hop’. A new sound that’s already made more than a few jaws drop.
Ryan Trigg: After warping his guitar by dropping it into a river in Laos, Ryan quickly discovered that the only way he could continue to make music with it was by turning it into a slide guitar. He began to incorporate the didjeridoo while street performing in Australia eventually moving on to entertaining unsuspecting pedestrians on the streets of Canada and the US. He has just recently begun taking his electronically stylized accoustic sounds to Vancouver stages.
The Skedaddlers:The Skedaddlers formed when 3 Islanders from the east met a Powell River boy and started strummin' strings on a porch in Vancouver.  Tim Hughes, a Vancouver singer/songwriter, met up with Mickey Acorn a recently transplanted writer from Charlottetown, PEI.  When Acorn's friend Brenton Driscoll had left his space metal band the three coerced guitarist Jason Connors to pick up the bass to complete the four-piece.  Connors, another Island guitarist, relocated to the West Coast.  The band dismantled and reassembled Acorn's songs, while Hughes added cunning and brave harmonies to the simple melodies. 


 

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