Full Schedule
Saturday, Day 4
François Houle Aerials (B.C.)
Composer and clarinetist François Houle has emerged in recent years as one of the most distinguished musicians in Canada. As an improviser, he combines a precision of execution with a questing spirit through which he has developed a truly astonishing extended instrumental vocabulary. BUY TICKETS
- Venue:
- Guelph Youth Music Centre
- Type:
- Concert
- Price:
- $20 / $15
- Time:
- 10:30am
Matana Roberts, Rich Marsella and the KidsAbility Youth Ensemble (New York, Ontario)
Two exceptional musicians and uncommon music educators, New York saxophonist Matana Roberts and Georgetown’s own Rich Marsella, will lead an ensemble of young musicians from the Guelph chapter of KidsAbility Centre for Child Development.
- Venue:
- Upper Wyndham Street Jazz Tent
- Type:
- Tent
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 11:40am
Burrows (Guelph)
Burrows is the pleasantly inevitable result of four ambitious and creative musicians whose offerings (in the form of song) display a brave and heartfelt kind of music.
- Venue:
- Upper Wyndham Street Jazz Tent
- Type:
- Tent
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 12:30pm
Friendly Rich and the Lollipop People (Ontario)
The radical instrumentation, effusive energy, socially and politically charged lyrics, theatrical moxie, and sheer whimsy of Friendly Rich and the Lollipop People (from Brampton) is ‘merely’ for grown ups.
- Venue:
- Upper Wyndham Street Jazz Tent
- Type:
- Tent
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 2pm
Sangha (B.C.)
Sangha is a Vancouver-based quartet that mixes Persian, Indian, and Arabic musical traditions in order to create a group music that is wholly contemporary while maintaining ties to each of these histories. BUY TICKETS
- Venue:
- Guelph Youth Music Centre
- Type:
- Concert
- Price:
- $25 / $20
- Time:
- 2pm, first half of double bill
Barry Guy (UK), Maya Homburger (Switzerland) & Jeff Reilly (Nova Scotia)
These musicians – Guy on bass, Homburger on violin and Reilly on bass clarinet – play with the precision of gesture and clarity of focus that blur any simple distinctions between improvisation and composition. Theirs is world-class chamber music, and is as contemporary and vital as it gets. BUY TICKETS
- Venue:
- Guelph Youth Music Centre
- Type:
- Concert
- Price:
- $25 / $20
- Time:
- 2pm, second half of double bill
Bernardo Padrón Group (Ontario)
Bernardo Padrón Group’s songs are a richly complex exploration of Venezuelan folkloric tradition and an accessible contemporary jazz experience. The group provides a contrast between full-throttle jazz and more nuanced and gentle folk influences that make their live performances an engaging treat.
- Venue:
- Upper Wyndham Street Jazz Tent
- Type:
- Tent
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 3:30pm
Burnt Sugar (New York)
With personnel numbering in the teens and covering innumerable stylistic bases, Burnt Sugar blasts through the gamut of contemporary musical genres with Greg Tate marshalling their exceptional talents using Butch Morris’s “conduction” technique, a system of hand cues that signal different kinds of improvisation.
- Venue:
- Upper Wyndham Street Jazz Tent
- Type:
- Tent
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 5:15pm
L’Orkestre des pas perdus (Québec)
This Québec brass band channels the dynamic funkiness of the classic jazz brass band tradition. However, leader Claude St. Jean’s compositions and arrangements – of Frank Zappa, Nino Rota, or Carla Bley, for example – keep the music beyond what is conventional and expected.
- Venue:
- Upper Wyndham Street Jazz Tent
- Type:
- Tent
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 7pm
Tortoise (Illinois)
Tortoise’s music– propulsive, detailed, and provocatively enigmatic – not only resounds throughout the current generation of musical experimenters, but also will surely do so for generations to come. BUY TICKETS
- Venue:
- River Run Centre, Main Stage
- Type:
- Concert
- Price:
- $25 / $20
- Time:
- 8pm
Tallboys: Kevin Breit, Matt Brubeck, Jesse Stewart (Ontario)
While not quite the Guelph Jazz Festival “house band,” Tallboys represents an assembly of three highly sympathetic players who represent the cream of improvising musicians who live in or near to Guelph.
- Venue:
- Upper Wyndham Street Jazz Tent
- Type:
- Tent
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 9pm
Jane Bunnett’s Carnavalissimo (Ontario) with Puppets by Jerrard Smith & Natalie Axon (Ontario)
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Guelph Jazz Festival, a long-time friend and regular performer, saxophonist Jane Bunnett, has assembled an Afro-Cuban street party that she calls “Carnavalissimo.” Featuring a parade, dance, music, and more, the spectacle will extend the festivities at the Upper Wyndham Street Jazz Tent well into Saturday night for the first time in the Festival’s history.
- Venue:
- Parade from River Run Centre to Upper Wyndham Street Jazz Tent
- Type:
- Tent
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 9:45pm
Tortoise
Tortoise’s music– propulsive, detailed, and provocatively enigmatic – not only resounds throughout the current generation of musical experimenters, but also will surely do so for generations to come.
