Friday's Lineup
Friday’s Lineup
Kaleta and Super Yamba Band
Brooklyn’s Kaleta & Super Yamba Band are fronted by Afrobeat and Juju veteran Leon Ligan-Majek a.k.a. Kaleta. The singer/guitarist from the West African country of Benin Republic lived his adolescent life in Lagos, Nigeria where Afrobeat was born. Kaleta’s guitar chops earned him decades of touring and recording with Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Lauryn Hill and more.
Kaleta got his start in the late 70s performing in church and was soon after picked up by iconic Juju master and world music pioneer King Sunny Ade. A few years later Fela Kuti came calling. Kaleta would go on to tour the world playing guitar for the King of Afrobeat in his storied band Egypt 80 through the 1980s and into the 1990s.
Ames Harding & the Mirage is a 4-piece band who’s unique blend of world-influenced indie is as catchy as it is nuanced. The project was started by Ames Harding, who grew up in Egypt, India, and Latin America, and combines psychedelia, folk, and world music. The band is made up of Eli Weidman on drums, Mike Saunders on bass, and AJ Arnett on percussion. Their genre-bending songs, built on rich sonic landscapes, surreal lyricism, and percussion, will truly take you on a trip.
RAMBUNCTIOUS: Noisy, very active, and hard to control, usually as a result of excitement or youthful energy. Nine horns + one drummer = dance party. You make a title, we make a song. Toronto rabble-rouser Michael Louis Johnson leads jams of swing, funk, balkan-beat and more.
Saturday's Lineup
Lemon Bucket Orchestra
Lemon Bucket Orkestra are Toronto’s original guerrilla-folk-party-punks. The award-winning crew has been called frenetic, charismatic, and gloriously anarchic by the New York Times,
Equal parts exhilarating precision and reckless abandon, LBO live is a truly immersive experience mixing sweat and tears with audience chorales and howling at the moon. You can hear that journey on their latest album Cuckoo (self-released, May 2024). It’s signature LBO: powerful Ukrainian polyphony and driving Balkan rhythms filtered through hip hop, punk and jazz and a whole range of global influences and purpose accrued from their eclectic global journeys and polycultural home city of Toronto alike.
Undertow Brass Band
Undertow Brass Band (FKA What Cheer? Brigade) is a brass band from Providence, RI, USA. We prove that great parties need no electricity.
Undertow Brass Band, formerly known as What Cheer? Brigade, is an energetic party band from Providence, RI, USA. We play dance music without microphones, so we can make noise almost anywhere. We are loud, tight, and love to dance with crowds, offering mobile moments of intense revelry.
Our music includes covers and originals, taking inspiration from genres ranging from Balkan, New Orleans, and other global brass traditions, as well as electronic dance music, classical, and pop. The band emerged from the Providence underground music scene in 2005, inspired by the unlikely overlap between the intensity of punk rock and brass. From these origins, the band developed its original sound, with one foot in Balkan tradition, the other in the American punk scene.
OKAN
Okan is a Canadian Afro-Cuban jazz group, whose core members are Cuban Canadian musicians Elizabeth Rodriguez and Magdelys Savigne
The band is called TAKAAT (meaning noise in Tamashek). TAUREG POST PUNK EXPERIMENTAL featuring the rhythm section of Mdou Moctar
Detroit Party Marching Band
ROCK YOUR FACE OFF!!!
We seek to establish a platform for artistic expression in efforts to further the economic and creative advancement of artists, as well the active engagement of diverse audiences.
Timbeleza is a community group that is a Brazilian batucada based in Pittsburgh, PA.
Colonel Eagleburger’s Highstepping Goodtime Band
Schenley Local No. 412
May Day Marching Band
We are a community-based band that welcomes members of all skill levels. We like playing fun and funky music at parades, rallies, protests, picnics, fiestas and other events. We also love to show up random places and surprise ya!
Big Blitz Based out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Big Blitz was born from the sounds of dance, rock, and jazz. This trio is comprised of Lucas Ciesielski (Saxophone), Nick Grabigel (Drums), and Mason Ciesielski (Saxophone and Synth). The band performs in a unique style, combining their individual musical influences to create a captivating sound. Whether plugged in or acoustic, Big Blitz delivers a high-energy performance that is guaranteed to transform any of your preconceived notions of the music that can be created by a saxophone-and-drum trio.
The KRUNK Movement is a year-round youth production program designed for students in
grades 8 through 12, focusing on the elements of hip-hop, including but not limited to
songwriting, production, art, and technology.