2 pm | HOPE CRIES FOR JUSTICE
PATRICIA NICHOLSON dance, text
WILLIAM PARKER bass, ngoni
Music and dance for a better world! Renowned New York City stalwarts of creative music and dance, bring music, words and movement to open hearts and minds to envision a compassionate world... embracing creativity to find strength and reclaim hope in a difficult time. Inspiring, much needed!
3 pm | DUN DUN BAND
Craig Dunsmuir, Kurt Newman guitars • Josh Cole electric bass • Jay Anderson Roland Handsonic • Blake Howard percussion • Colin Fisher, Brodie West, Ted Crosby saxes
"..reminiscent both of prog and Afrobeat, with sequenced rhythms cued by Dunsmuir and executed by the rhythm instruments while the electronics and saxes played through, occasionally dipping into composed melodies." – Nilan Perera
4 pm | SUSANNA HOOD’S PACKET TRIO
Susanna Hood photo by Frederic Chais
Unpacked by Susanna Hood Trio
Montreal-based bandleader and vocalist-dancer, Susanna Hood, along with the superb Toronto-based musicians, Tania Gill (piano) and Kayla Milmine (soprano saxophone) bring poet, Judith Malina and composer, Steve Lacy’s “Packet” suite to life through sound and movement. At the heart of the suite, a provocation: the emotional, embodied, unfettered female voice. Heart-felt, yet unsentimental, these eight songs hold no punches as they bring voice to a woman’s later life, grappling with imperfection, sexism, paradox, grit, beauty, regret, invisibility, death and love.
"Remarkably, Susanna Hood proves to be impeccable when it comes to interpreting Steve Lacy's repertoire of magnificent songs. Her voice, expressive and sumptuous, makes us favorably forget the interpretations of Irene Aebi, Lacy's collaborator and first interpreter of his songs." – Montreal drummer, Michel F Côté
$25 advance tickets (for 3 acts) via Eventbrite
$35 door
$65 festival weekend pass via Eventbrite
No one is refused admission for lack of funds
