Mark Duggan (Roots VII)
Featuring: Mark Duggan
With Andrew Downing bass, Dave Burton drums, Christian Kogel guitar, Claude St Jean trombone, and Duggan percussion - Roots VII is a collaborative project with music contributed by each of the players - and each is a post-modern music guru in their own right.
Friday July 18 12:00 PM
electronic | funk | samba | World CBC Noon Series at Festival Tent
Free Show
Con Brio
Featuring: Daniel MacNeil
With Daniel Mac Neil guitar, Adam Fine bass, Janis Dawson violin, Nick Mac Lean guitar Glenn Fraser percussion, Jeff Chown percussion. The first original flamenco/jazz ensemble in Canada.
Sunday July 13 1:00 PM
flamenco | Jazz | roots | World Free Daytime Concerts at Festival Tent
Free Show
Marinda
Featuring: Marinda
Toronto based vocalist Marinda Lavut returns to the mainstage with her distinctive sound that blends jazz, bossa-nova, soul, hip-hop, world and funk.
Sunday July 13 12:00 PM
Blues | funk | hip-hop | Jazz | r&b | soul | World Free Daytime Concerts at Festival Tent
Free Show
Samba Nova
Featuring: Samba Nova
Samba Nova kick of the Saturday afternoon dance party in the Brazilian percussion tradition Carnival Samba Batucada - a unique and energetic blend incorporating various elements of different styles of Brazilian music such as Samba, Maracatu and Samba Funk.
New Music Gallery Crawl
Featuring: David Mott, Free Hugs, Jeff Torbert, Live Animal, Lukas Pearse
A truly unique, multi-located concert experience that begins at Studio 21 with the eclectic talent of trio Free Hugs, moves on to Page and Strange for an electro-acoustic sampling adventure with Live Animal, and ends at Argyle Fine Art where phenomenal Bari-saxophonist David Mott gets the final note.
Saturday July 12 7:30 PM
Alternative | Folk | Free improv | Jazz | World New Music Gallery Crawl at Studio 21
$15 Buy Tickets
Afro Musica w/ Opening Act TONIC
Featuring: Afro Musica, Tonic
Halifax based Afro-pop ensemble Afro Musica return to the main stage due to popular demand for a visually stunning audio-visual feast that melds innovative compositions with dazzling choreography.
Saturday July 19 8:00 PM
Afro beat | Jazz | World Mainstage Concert Series at Festival Tent
$20 Buy Tickets
Kinan Azmeh, Dinuk Wijeratne and Mayookh Bhaumik
Featuring: Dinuk Wijeratne, Kinan Azmeh, Mayookh Bhaumik
Composer, pianist and Symphony NS conductor Dinuk Wijeratne is joined by Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and tabla prodigy Mayookh Bhaumik. $20 advance, $25 door
Thursday July 17 7:00 PM
Classical | Jazz | World Cathedral Concert Series at Cathedral Church of All Saints
$20 Buy Tickets
L'Orkestre des pas perdus w/ Opening Act Michael Occhipinti's Sicilian Jazz Project
Featuring: L'Orkestre des pas perdus, Michael Occhipinti
O.P.P is a 9-piece horn-band meeting of circus music and surrealist cabaret, strongly influenced by jazz, klezmer, funk and fun. Occhipinti’s Sicilian Jazz Project takes its point of departure from ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax’s 1954 investigation of Sicilian roots music, but the project moves well beyond the original Italian folk songs into contemporary works that incorporate new voicings, rhythms and harmonies.
Thursday July 17 8:00 PM
Folk | Fusion | Jazz | World Mainstage Concert Series at Festival Tent
$20 Buy Tickets
Simon Shaheen (Algeria / France) w/ Opening Act: Talambra
Featuring: Simon Shaheen, Talambra
Shaheen dazzles listeners as he deftly leaps from traditional Arabic sounds to jazz and Western classical styles. His soaring technique, melodic ingenuity, and unparalleled grace have earned him international acclaim as a virtuoso on both the oud and violin.
Wednesday July 16 8:00 PM
Classical | World Mainstage Concert Series at Festival Tent
$20 Buy Tickets
Rachid Taha (Algeria/France) w/ Opening Act KOJO
Featuring: Rachid Taha
Algerian-French vocalist Rachid Taha fuses genres of hip hop and electronica and a myriad cultural traditions with remarkable musicality. His politically charged roots music wields a rock sensibility that is unmistakably wound around his Arabic origins.
