Juno Award-winning Singer-Songwriter Dawn Tyler Watson has earned her place among the International Blues elite. She adopted Montreal as her home after earning her BFA in Jazz Studies and Theatre from Concordia University.

Since then, her fiery stage presence and soul-stirring performances have garnered her national and world-wide recognition with multiple awards including Maple Blues Awards for Songwriter, Best Album, Female Vocalist of the Year, and a 2020 American Blues Music Nomination for Vocalist of the Year alongside greats like Curtis Salgado & Mavis Staples.

Her latest record “Mad Love,” was just awarded the 2020 JUNO award for Blues Album of the Year.

Musicians:
Dawn Tyler Watson: vocals
John Sadowy: piano
bass
drums

Youtube video: “It Don’t Mean A Thing”

The Eamon van den Berg Quartet is rooted in the tradition (pioneered by African American artists and musicians of the twentieth century) of reinterpreting standards, popular songs and originals on a moment to moment basis, in the personal style of the performers.

This energetic quartet utilizes groove, communication, intuition, and improvisation to traverse the landscape and history of contemporary music; from early jazz to post bop and beyond.

Musicians:
Eamon van den Berg ~ Drums
Devon Gillingham ~ Bass
Daniel Marmer ~ Guitar
Sam Baglieri ~ Tenor Saxophone

Music is definitely part of Darrell Green’s family pedigree — his father was a bass player after all — but this jazz drummer also has his own preternatural sense of groove. Over a career that’s spanned more than two decades, Green has become a master technician and prolific sideman, sharing stages with everyone from Blue Note vibraphonist Stefon Harris to saxophonist Red Holloway. Though jazz is his primary focus, Green is conversant in every genre from straight-ahead jazz to Latin and West African music.

Musicians:
Saxophone alto: Maude Fortier
Saxophone ténor: Sam Baglier
Contrebasse: Mason Jeffery-Off
Piano: August McKinney
Batterie: Darrell Green

Youtube video: Nerftiti”