Serving Drom’s Eastern European Brunch from 1PM to 4PM!

RAGWAX
1.30

Ragwax per­for­mance brings fresh vi­gour to vin­tage 1900s-1940s jazz. He re­in­ter­prets and incor­po­rates blues, jump blues, hot jazz, a bit of rocka­billy, ori­gi­nal, and mo­dern songs in­to his unique yet cu­rious­ly fa­mi­liar sound. The re­sul­ting pre­sen­ta­tion is pro­vo­ca­tive and dis­tinctly reso­nant.

Jazz has come to mean music that is snob­bish­ly so­phis­ti­ca­ted, bland and boring. Vis­ua­lise a bunch of musicians im­pres­sing each other, while stu­diou­sly ig­no­ring the audience. On the other hand, by original design, dixie­land, hot jazz and Tin Pan Alley engaged people and got them moving and dancing. As a con­tem­po­ra­ry artist in his twenties, Ragwax plays songs that are en­ter­tai­ning and almost a hun­dred years old. He re­vi­ves and re­news his­to­ric jazz stan­dards, proving them to be ex­ci­ting and truly time­less.

While playing bars, clubs, hotels and res­tau­rants to make a living, patrons expect the usual clas­sic rock or top 40 for live en­ter­tain­ment, but Ragwax catches them off-guard and they'll dance, buy drinks, and show a per­so­nal in­ter­est be­tween sets. There is a no­stal­gia and time­less­ness to his per­for­mance that gets a crowd ex­cit­ed and en­ga­ged in a re­fresh­ing way. Ragwax en­ter­tain­ment is a rare treat, some­thing people would ty­pi­cal­ly have to go out of their way to find.

KRISTIN LINDELL

5.00

Soulful Folk Jazz singer songwriter Kristin Lindell of the Beach area of Toronto weaves Swing, Blues and Folk seamlessly.  She serves up melodic jazz tinged vocals and vivid lyrics.  With echoes of Eva Cassidy and Norah Jones, her ethereal voice will lift you up. Kristin’s music paints technicolour images of ravens circling the sky, driftwood on beaches, winding rivers, and dancing barefoot on grass.  Visceral, sensual and immediate, her songs take you into an enticing world of magic. 

Kristin has performed as Far East as Portland Maine and as far West as Saltspring Island BC and can be heard at many Toronto venues and festivals.  Her third album River of Light has had radio airplay.

FLAMENCO
8.00

Folkloric dance and music of Spain!

KAMAKAN
11PM

TICKETED EVENT

An Evening of Contemporized Ritual Soundscapes and Mythic Memory

Join us for an unforgettable performance by Kamakan, the critically acclaimed music project led by Iranian composer and performer Mehdi Saki. Born of southern Iran’s ritual traditions and reimagined through contemporary music, Kamakan weaves a sonic tapestry of resistance, remembrance, and raw poetic intensity.