The second in-person sliver day of our 2021 Something Else! Festival Series at the Bay consists of two solid projects, both gracing our stage for the first time, from Montreal & Toronto. We will enjoy at least two sets of music each from SILVERVEST: ZOMBIK & CALOIA + RYAN DRIVER QUINTET.
Suggested donation $20 at the door…or $18 in advance via Eventbrite
[OUR ADMISSION POLICY: NO ONE WILL BE REFUSED ENTRY FOR LACK OF FUNDS]
SILVERVEST: ZOMBIK & CALOIA
The unique Montreal duo of double bassist NICOLAS CALOIA and vocalist KIM ZOMBIK offers an elegant, skeletal take on song and harnesses power of vulnerability. Echoing the sophisticated songcraft of everyone from Joni Mitchell to Laurie Anderson, and even the eerie jazz malaise Archie Shepp's collaboration with Jeanne Lee, Blasé, Caloia and Zombik distill their 30+ years of varied experience through this project to offer something that's at once palatable, and unclassifiable—minimalist in execution but robust in impact. Sitting between the carefully mapped-out and daringly freeform, between popular sensibilities and avant garde restlessness SILVERVEST's sonic identity is clear, palpably melodic, yet always leaves room for intuition and boundless exploration.
RYAN DRIVER QUINTET
A peculiar lounge-jazz group that has been performing monthly in Toronto since 2001, this group breathes a strange new kind of life into popular ballads from the 1930’s, 40’s, and 50’s. They fill their renditions with psychedelic improvisational meanderings, intertwinings, and the unexpectable amidst rich tenderness, utter heartbreak, and doorways into other worlds.
This iteration of The Ryan Driver Quintet features MARTIN ARNOLD on guitar, BRODIE WEST on alto saxophone and clarinet, BLAKE HOWARD on drums, DAN FORTIN on bass, and RYAN DRIVER on Wurlitzer electric piano and human voice.
Nick Storring wrote eloquently for Musicworks about their Stephen Parkinson Songbook album here.
This event was made possible with kind support from Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, & the City of Hamilton.
RYAN DRIVER by Andrew Wedman
SILVERVEST