NAT BEJA DUO
5.30
Jazz, boleros and waltzes from the 1940’s
CABOCUBAJAZZ
8.00
In an inimitable way, the international ensemble blends the melancholy of the Cape Verdean Islands with a generous portion of Cuban rumba, salsa & adventurous jazz. The result: 100% CaboCubaJazz.
Both the listener and the dancer are taken on a journey where desire, passion, subtlety and musical fire alternate. CaboCubaJazz performed in Cuba, Cape Verde, Canada, Thailand, Germany, Finland, Israel, Austria, Belgium, Bahrain, Malaysia, Romenia, Luxembourg, Norway and in The Netherlands. Highlights: Havana Jazz Festival, Kriol Jazz, North Sea Jazz Festival. The current album is 'Corason Africano', including single 'Boas Festas'. Debut album Rikeza y Valor is elected best world music album by Dutch journalists, selected twice for the Grammy and was nominated at the Cabo Verde Music Awards. Their next album is due 2026!
LAVENDER TOWN
11.00
TICKETS AT THE DOOR: $20
Lavender Town is one of Toronto's premier high energy instrumental party bands. Inspired by 2010s pop, internet, and video game culture as well as modern hiphop and drum and bass, Lavender Town's goal is to infuse classics we all know and love with blistering virtuosic jazz fusion while keeping even the staunchest of jazz haters head-bopping.
PS5
2.30
PS5 is led by Pietro Santangelo who was born, lives and plays in Naples. As a saxophonist and composer, he released five albums with Slivovitz, one with his PS3 trio. He is a former member of Nu Guinea (Nuova Napoli Band) and is involved and engaged in the Italian scene of radical improvisation.
Two-and-a-half-years after the release of Unconscious Collective (2021), Pietro Santangelo and his PS5 ensemble returned with the album Echologia (2024). The compositions are inspired by the idea of natural biodiversity as an expression of contamination, coexistence and balance. In the same way as the biological agents contribute to the life of a certain ecosystem, seemingly distant musical languages act as elements of balance in a fertile and blooming musical system. Multiculturalism becomes coexistence.
Suggestive saxophone textures intertwine on a solid rhythmic equilibrium and move naturally along an imaginary line highlighting the ancestral connection between Africa and the Mediterranean Sea.