SERVING CENTRAL ONTARIO

ALLISTON - BRADFORD WEST GWILLIMBURY
GEORGINA - INNISFIL - MIDLAND - ORILLIA

"URBINNDIE"

HOSTED BY

PHILLIPE HEELS
53RD & 3RD SHOWS

FEATURING

- WINNERS OF THE 2012 JACK RICHARDSON
MUSIC AWARD FOR BEST BLUES/R&B

- TORONTO BLUES SOCIETY TALENT SEARCH 2012 FINALISTS

- 2012 MEMPHIS INTERNATIONAL BLUES CHALLENGE
SEMI-FINALISTS

- 2011 LONDON FREE PRESS LOCAL ALBUM
OF THE YEAR WINNERS

"ROBBIE ANTONE'S BAND GETS ITS SOUND FROM THE MANY
INFLUENCESOF ITS LEAD SINGER AND HARMONICA ACE.
ROBBIE'S MUSIC IS BEST DESCRIBED AS BLUES/ROCK
WITH INFLUENCES OF SOUL AND R&B."
- CBC RADIO

"THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN!"

ENJOY A WIDE-RANGING JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD OF
DIXIELAND, BIG BAND AND POPULAR JAZZ SONGS FROM
THE EARLY TO MID-20TH CENTURY PERFORMED BY SOME OF
THE ELDER STATESMEN OF CANADIAN JAZZ. RELIVE THE GREAT
MUSIC OF GLENN MILLER, DUKE ELLINGTON, COUNT BASIE,
THE TIJUANA BRASS, LOUIS ARMSTRONG, HENRY MANCINI,
GERRY MULLIGAN ..... AND MORE!

NORMA DELORIS EGSTROM "PEGGY LEE"
MAY 26, 1920 - JANUARY 21, 2002

A RETROSPECTIVE ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF "A PROLIFIC COMPOSER-SINGER, REMEMBERED AS ONE OF THE GREATEST POP SONG STYLISTS ALONGSIDE ELLA FITZGERALD, BILLIE HOLIDAY, AND SARAH VAUGHAN. "

PEGGY LEE WAS NOMINATED FOR TWELVE GRAMMY AWARDS, WINNING BEST CONTEMPORARY VOCAL PERFORMANCE FOR HER 1969 HIT "IS THAT ALL THERE IS?" IN 1995 SHE WAS GIVEN THE GRAMMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. SHE RECEIVED THE ROUGH RIDER AWARD FROM THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA, THE PIED PIPER AWARD FROM THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS, AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS (ASCAP), THE PRESIDENTS AWARD FROM THE SONGWRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA, THE ELLA AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT FROM THE SOCIETY OF SINGERS, AND THE LIVING LEGACY AWARD FROM THE WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL CENTER. IN 1999 SHE WAS INDUCTED INTO THE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME.

THE BROWNMAN ELECTRYC QUARTET

Featuring
BROWNMAN ALI - BEN DUFF
BEN GREEN - NICK McLEAN

CALLED "ONE OF CANADA'S GREATEST INTERPRETERS OF MILES DAVIS' MUSIC" BY THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR, THE 2-TIME NATIONAL JAZZ AWARD WINNING TRUMPET PLAYER, BROWNMAN ALI, WILL TAKE BARRIE JAZZ FEST AUDIENCES ON A CHRONOLOGICAL JOURNEY THROUGH MILES' DAVIS LAST EXPLORATIONS OF THE JAZZ ARTFORM
---------- HIS ELECTRIC PERIOD.

BROWNMAN IS NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE IMPROVISING TRUMPET PLAYERS IN THE NATION, AND IS WIDELY REGARDED AS A VANGUARD FOR THE EVOLUTION OF JAZZ IN CANADA.

A HIGHLY DECORATED ARTIST,
HIS ACCOLADES INCLUDE 2 NATIONAL JAZZ AWARDS

- A CBC GALAXIE RISING STAR AWARD

- A SOCAN COMPOSERS AWARD,

- MONTREAL JAZZ FESTIVAL'S "GRAND PRIX DU JAZZ" AWARD

- 2 TORONTO INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS

- AN INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARD

- AN INDUCTION INTO THE WHO'S WHO IN BLACK CANADA

ARETHA LOUISE FRANKLIN
MARCH 25, 1942 - AUGUST 16, 2018

A RETROSPECTIVE ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF A MUSIC PHENOMENON: AN AMERICAN SINGER, SONGWRITER, PIANIST, AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST.

ARETHA FRANKLIN RECORDED 112 CHARTED SINGLES ON BILLBOARD, INCLUDING 77 HOT 100 ENTRIES, 17 TOP-TEN POP SINGLES, 100 R&B ENTRIES, AND 20 NUMBER-ONE R&B SINGLES. SHE IS THE MOST CHARTED FEMALE ARTIST IN HISTORY. FRANKLIN'S WELL-KNOWN HITS INCLUDE "ROCK STEADY", "CALL ME", "AIN'T NO WAY", "DON'T PLAY THAT SONG (YOU LIED)", "SPANISH HARLEM", "DAY DREAMING", "UNTIL YOU COME BACK TO ME (THAT'S WHAT I'M GONNA DO)", "SOMETHING HE CAN FEEL", "JUMP TO IT", "FREEWAY OF LOVE", "WHO'S ZOOMIN' WHO", AND "I KNEW YOU WERE WAITING (FOR ME)" (A DUET WITH GEORGE MICHAEL). SHE WON 18 GRAMMY AWARDS, INCLUDING THE FIRST EIGHT AWARDS GIVEN FOR BEST FEMALE R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE (1968-1975). ARETHA FRANKLIN IS ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING MUSIC ARTISTS OF ALL TIME, HAVING SOLD MORE THAN 75 MILLION RECORDS WORLDWIDE.

SIGNED TO BIG SHOT RECORDS AND HAD A TOP 40 DANCE HIT IN THE UNITED LINGDOM, GERMANY, SPAIN AND AUSTRALIA

SIGNED TO 4TH/BROADWAY ISLAND RECORDS

HAS PERFORMED AT THE APOLLO THEATRE IN HARLEM NEW YORK,
THE METROPOLIS IN MONTREAL, THE O'KEEFE CENTRE IN TORONTO

VOICE OF CLUB MED COMMERCIAL& VOICE WORK FOR CBC, SUZUKI,
HYUNDAI, TACO BELL, HARVEY'S & KRAFT MACARONI AND CHEESE

APPEARED IN THE MOVIE, "SING", STARRING PATTI LABELLE

CURRENTLY PERFORMS WITH "NORRIS VINES AND THE PLATTERS"

JILLIAN'S WARM, EXPRESSIVE VOICE IS THE PERFECT VEHICLE FOR HER REPERTOIRE OF JAZZ STANDARDS AND MEMORABLE SOUL, RHYTHM & BLUES AND DANCE MUSIC HITS. HER COMMANDING STAGE PRESENCE IS SIMPLY CAPTIVATING.

VERVE RECORDS, ALSO KNOWN AS THE VERVE MUSIC GROUP, WAS FOUNDED IN 1956 BY JAZZ IMPRESARIO, NORMAN GRANZ, CREATOR AND PRODUCER OF THE "JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC" CONCERTS SERIES. IT IS HOME TO THE WORLD'S LARGEST JAZZ RECORDINGS CATALOGUE AND INCLUDES ALBUMS BY ARTISTS SUCH AS ELLA FITZGERALD, NINA SIMONE, STAN GETZ AND BILLIE HOLIDAY, AMONG OTHERS. IT ABSORBED THE CATALOGUES OF GRANZ'S EARLIER LABELS, CLEF RECORDS, FOUNDED IN 1946, NORGRAN RECORDS, FOUNDED IN 1953, AND MATERIAL PREVIOUSLY LICENSED TO MERCURY RECORDS.

NORMAN GRANZ CREATED VERVE RECORDS TO PRODUCE NEW RECORDINGS BY ELLA FITZGERALD, WHOM HE MANAGED, AND THE CATALOG GREW THROUGHOUT THE 1950S AND 1960S TO INCLUDE CHARLIE PARKER, BILL EVANS, OSCAR PETERSON, BEN WEBSTER, DIZZY GILLESPIE, COUNT BASIE AND LESTER YOUNG.

TWICE VOTED "BEST ACOUSTIC PIANIST"
- THE JAZZ REPORT AWARDS

WINNER OF THE SOCAN AWARD FOR
BEST JAZZ COMPOSITION - "BLUES FOR CLIFFORD"

BUDDY DEFRANCO DESCRIBED BERNIE SENENSKY AS
"THE BEST OF THE BEST"

BILL EVANS ONCE SAID: "I COULD JUST SIT
AND LISTEN TO HIM PLAY ALL DAY!"

FACULTY MEMBER

Featuring
NOAM GURRIER-FREUD - PASCAL TIRAPANI

“TOP 10 ALBUMS, TOP 10 GUITARISTS, BEST ORIGINAL SONG”
- REAL BLUES MAGAZINE

“ONE OF THE BEST DISCOVERIES ON THE PRERVATION BLUES REVIEW…" - LES AMIS DE BLUES

" 'SAID THE WRONG THING' IS MY SIGNATURE SONG - CBC RADIO

"CLIFF YOU ARE JUST AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE CLAPTON BUT YOU GUYS ARE JUST AS GOOD …"

"BLOODY HELL!!! FANTASTIC TRIBUTE. JUST LIKE ERIC IS RIGHT THERE ..... WELL DONE. MR. STEVENS AND BAND!!."

"…FINE SLIDE…FINELY WROUGHT VOCAL STYLE…QUALITY QUALITY SONGS." - BLUES MATTERS MAGAZINE

FREDDIE KING
SEPTEMBER 3, 1934 - DECEMER 28, 1976

A RETROSPECTIVE ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF
"ONE OF THE GREAT POSTWAR BLUES MASTERS".

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MULTI-AWARD RECIPIENT