#QUEEN CITY JAZZ FESTIVAL 2018 SERIES#
#QUEEN CITY JAZZ FESTIVAL 2018 TV#

When you hear the title track over the opening credit montage you'll know I'm not kidding. Take your pick, there's a handful of songs that rightfully deserve 'Best Song' if the Oscars ever get their head & ears out of the sand. unreal! Sure, we're talking more Grammys here than Oscars and I can't recall a stronger 'Orignal Soundtrack' in a very long time. Allen Toussiant, Sharon Jones, Susan Tedeschi, James Cotton, Magic Slim, Maria Muldaur, Average White Band. But without a doubt, it is the way that writer/director/actor Peter McGennis weaves his own original music (blues, jazz and soul) into his film that makes Queen City an indie classic. Fox, Peter Jason, Peter McGennis, Lyriq Bent and Sam Gates) all work well and give Queen City (aka Buffalo, New York) a distinct personality. Witty dialog, gorgeously shot historic locations and an eclectic mix of shifty performances (Vivica A. Looks, feels and sounds like an authentic, gritty 1970's film (clearly shot of film). It’s got the off-the-cuff energy of our live shows, which is something we always try to capture in the studio.Loads of cult-classic fun and the original soundtrack is incredible. We were all pretty excited by how this track turned out. “We had a lot of fun arranging and recording this one, which we first heard sung by Roscoe Holcomb, (the high lonesome sound embodied in a man), but written by Barbecue Bob in the 20s. We wanted to put a few tunes on this record that were just straight up bluegrass presentations, with no real arrangements to speak of. He passed on last year and is one of the ultimate unsung heroes of the genre. The Queen City Pride Festival is an annual, 10-day celebration of the Gender and Sexually.

We got it from the great Dave Evans, the powerhouse, tour-de-force, musical equivalent of a tornado ripping through your town. 2nd Annual Oscar Peterson Jazz Festival: Music with No Borders. “This is an old song, and a bit of an obscure one as far as bluegrass classics go. “Sun’s Gonna Shine in my Backdoor Someday”: The (only) beauty of flying that early is you often get a whole row to yourself, so while the rest of us slept, Frank wrote this tune.” The octet has appeared at the 20 Queen City Jazz Festivals, Villa Maria College, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, and Pausa Art House, and kicked off the 2017 Northwest Jazz Festival in Lewiston, NY. on a flight up to Iqaluit in Nunavut, where we booked to play the Alianait Music Festival. 2018 appearances: Friday, November 2, 8pm at Burchfield Penney Art Center. “This one was written by our banjo player, Frank, and features him playing his clawhammer banjo in a crazy tuning he made up just for this tune. Here’s what they have to say about each one: “Just to Know”

#QUEEN CITY JAZZ FESTIVAL 2018 SERIES#

The Slocans have agreed to premiere three songs from the new album exclusively on Roots Music Canada. The lineup for the Colored Musician’s Club’s Jazz Fest 2018 has been announced The series is sponsored by M&T Bank and will be housed on indoor and outdoor stages through the Queen City from July. It was recorded (mostly) live off the floor as a band, and we really tried to capture the high energy live show that is the defining feature of our group.” “It features more original song-writing and lots of obscure gems that we’ve uncovered over the years. Jazz is taking over Charlotte next Saturday with Power 98's sister station The 4th annual V 101. “It’s really the culmination of our growth as players individually, as a unit, and as writers,” Adrian Gross told me by email this week. Their new album, Queen City Jubilee, showcases the mature sound the band has developed after four years of hard work on the road together. If that’s not the ultimate prize for a Canadian band, we here at Roots Music Canada don’t know what is. In fact, their performance of “Abide with Me” on that show caught the attention of Don Cherry, who, in turn, talked up the band to Ron MacLean during Coaches Corner on Hockey Night in Canada.

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#QUEEN CITY JAZZ FESTIVAL 2018 TV#

They’ve opened for Steve Martin’s bluegrass band and taken part in a Vision TV gospel special called “God’s Greatest Hits.” In 2007 he moved back to the US and played regularly in New York City and New Orleans. Torontoist named them the Best New Artist at the 2013 Toronto Jazz Festival, and Bluegrass Situation called them one of the Top New Discoveries of the 2014 Folk Alliance Conference. Toronto bluegrass outfit the Slocan Ramblers have managed to impress everyone from old-school folkies to hipster old-time revivalists with their innovative, fiddle-free arrangements and original takes on the high lonesome sound.Īll one-time students of the Humber College music program, the Slocans – who are named for a historic mine in B.C.’s Slocan Valley, where bassist Alastair Whitehead spent his summers – count among their influences lesser-known bluegrass great Dave Evans and celebrated player Norman Blake.

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