SERVING CENTRAL ONTARIO

ALLISTON - BRADFORD WEST GWILLIMBURY
COLDWATER - TOWN OF GEORGINA
TOWN OF INNISFIL - MIDLAND - ORILLIA

LOCAL BARRIE GUITARIST, DAVID CHUN, IS A MUSIC TEACHER AND LEADS A VARIETY OF POPULAR MUSIC ENSEMBLES IN SIMCOE COUNTY, INCLUDING
"BARSTOOL ACADEMY" AND "GIRLS UP FRONT".
DUMMER, DANIEL SANTO, HAS TOURED AND PERFORMED THROUGHOUT CANADA, THE UNITED STATES AND SOUTH AMERICA. ENJOY AN EARLY EVENING OF LATIN JAZZ PIECES FUELED
BY DANIEL'S FIERY PERCUSSION RHYTHMS
AND AUTHENTIC LATIN VOCALS.

ENJOY A MUSICAL TRIP THROUGH TIME FROM GLENN MILLER TO FREDDIE MERCURY, WITH CAMEO SELECTIONS FROM DUKE ELLINGTON, FRANK SINATRA, PEGGY LEE, MICHAEL BUBLE, DEAN MARTIN, SANTANA, THE BEATLES ..... AND MORE, ALL ARRANGED FOR THAT BIG BAND EXPERIENCE!

THE "MAN OF A THOUSAND SONGS" DIGS DEEP INTO
HIS VAST REPERTOIRE TO ENLIGHTEN AND ENGAGE
US WITH BUFFETT WELL-KNOWN HITS AND STORIES.

FROM THE ACOUSTIC BLUES OF "THE CROSS-ROADS", THROUGH THE ELECTRIC BLUES OF CHICAGO, AND UP TO THE CONTEMPORARY BLUES OF TODAY, GRANT LYLE DEMONSTRATES HIS MASTERY OF THE BLUES IN ALL OF ITS MANIFESTATIONS IN THIS EDU-TAINING CONCERT.

RECOGNIZED AS "ONE OF THE TOP TEN CANADIAN BLUES ARTISTS" BY REAL BLUES MAGAZINE, GRANT LYLE IS A CONTINUALLY EXCITING GUITAR-VOCALIST.

"HIS STYLE AND PRESENTATION INCLUDES THE EVER-GREEN SOUNDS OF TRADITIONAL BLUES WHILE ALL THE WHILE LENDING AN AIR OF GENIUS TO THE CANVAS WITH A BLEND OF GENRES LIKE COUNTRY, R&B AND SOUTHERN ROCK."
- NASHVILLE MUSIC GUIDE

"LIKE HENDRIX … HIS REAL VOICE IS IN THE WAIL, THE GRUNT, THE BEND AND CONVEXITY OF HIS GUITAR PHRASING."
- MICHIGAN CHRONICLE

AN ORIGINAL APPROACH TO THE RHYTHM & BLUES REPERTOIRE, PLUS MIKE ROBERTS' OWN COMPOSITIONS, MAKES FOR AN ENTERTAINING EARLY EVENING OF JAZZ AND BLUES SONGS IN A ONE-MAN-WITH-TECHNOLOGY PERFORMANCE!

JOZSEF BOTOS' PASSION FOR BLENDING DIFFERENT MUSIC STYLES AND INFLUENCES IS EVIDENT IN HIS DEDICATION TO HIS CRAFT. HIS TRIO EXPLORES THE INTERSECTION OF CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL GUITAR AND CONTEMPORARY JAZZ TO CREATE A CAPTIVATING AND UNIQUE LISTENING EXPERIENCE. JAZZ STANDARDS AND ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS SHOWCASE THEIR TALENTS AND PASSION FOR MUSIC, HIGHLIGHTING THEIR CREATIVITY AND VERSATILITY AS ARTISTS.

"CANADIAN QUARTET"
ED BICKERT - JERRY FULLER - DON THOMPSON

"PAUL DESMOND AND ED BICKERT MADE MAGIC
ON PURE DESMOND"

A RETROSPECTIVE ON AN ALBUM THAT SHOWCASED ED BICKERT'S MASTERY OF JAZZ GUITAR PLAYING, AND OF WHICH PAUL DESMOND SAID,
"I CONSIDER IT ED'S ALBUM, REALLY."

FROM 1950 TO 1967, PAUL DESMOND PLAYED WITH THE WILDLY SUCCESSFUL DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET; THEIR MIDPOINT TRIUMPH, TIME OUT, FROM 1959 IS A STAPLE ON LISTS OF THE MOST IMPORTANT JAZZ RECORDINGS.

EARLY ON, BRUBECK AND DESMOND REACHED AN INFORMAL AGREEMENT: THE SAXOPHONIST SHOULDN'T MUDDY THE WATERS BY RECORDING WITH OTHER PIANISTS. IN THE 1960S, THAT RESULTED IN A STRING OF CLASSIC DESMOND RECORDS WITH GUITARIST JIM HALL. A FEW YEARS LATER, BOTH HALL AND WRITER GENE LEES TOLD DESMOND ABOUT A GREAT GUITAR PLAYER IN CANADA, ED BICKERT.

IN THE LATE SUMMER OF 1974, AFTER TWO WEEKS OF SHOWS AT BOURBON STREET IN TORONTO WITH A LOCAL RHYTHM SECTION (DRUMMER, JERRY FULLER, AND BASSIST, DON THOMPSON), DESMOND WAS SO EXCITED ABOUT ED BICKERT THAT HE CONVINCED RECORD PRODUCER, CREED TAYLOR, TO INCLUDE BICKERT ON THE NEXT DESMOND ALBUM FOR CTI, WHICH WOULD BE RELEASED THE FOLLOWING YEAR UNDER THE TITLE, "PURE DESMOND".

A RETROSPECTIVE ON AN ALBUM THAT
"WOULD CHANGE THE FACE OF AMERICAN MUSIC, MODERNIZING THE BLUES".
"'IT WAS THE GREAT DIVIDE OF MODERN BLUES,
THE POINT AT WHICH THE MUSIC WAS RESCUED FROM SLIPPING INTO DERIVATIVE OBSCURITY."

SUCH IS THE IMPACT AND IMPORTANCE OF ALBERT KING'S "BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN" RECORDING FROM 1967. IT BECAME "ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR AND INFLUENTIAL BLUES ALBUMS OF THE LATE 60s", RECEIVING A GRAMMY HALL OF FAME AWARD IN 1999 FOR "QUALITATIVE OR HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE", AND WAS INDUCTED INTO THE BLUES FOUNDATION HALL OF FAME. BACKED ON THE
RECORDING BY THE LEGENDARY GROUP, "BOOKER T. & THE MGs", ALBERT KING'S GUITAR WORK "DIRECTLY INFLUENCED LEGIONS OF GUITAR PLAYERS" AND INCLUDES AMONG ITS MANY ADHERENTS JIMI HENDRIX, ERIC CLAPTON AND STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN.

"BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN"
RANKS AT NUMBER 491 IN ROLLING STONE
MAGAZINE'S TOP 500 RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME.