Water's Edge Festival

Singer Songwriter lineup

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:08:22 +0000

If you want to perform, spaces are filling up quickly! Here’s the line up so far:

March 20th
Kylie Shorter
Colin Grieves
Zach and Alana (Solace)
Daniel and Garret (faceplants)
Raagini Appaduri
Celia Zombie
Aurdrey Andchangco

March 21st
Mackenzie Yoon
Jesse and Cora
Amanda Marino
Jeff Huggins
Rory Macrury
Sergio Rumantir
Nicole Broughton and Nicole Poulin
Sarah Bowering
David Blair

Witness Music History!

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:07:39 +0000

Multi award winning composer/ trumpeter/ producer Brad Turner has composed a major work for jazz septet with a children’s choir feature. Rare is it that jazz suites include choral parts, let alone children’s voices! This piece is such a mammoth feat of composition and performance, that this may be a once in a lifetime opportunity to hear the new work in its entirety. Don’t miss out!

Turner was commissioned by Coastal Sound Music Academy, with funding from BC Arts Council and Province of BC to write something for his group that included a vocal element. Diana Clark, Artistic Director of Coastal Sound asked Turner what he’d always wanted to write, and he came back with the idea for a multi movement suite based on the idea of crossing cultures, generations, musical genres. Musicians like Neelamajit Dhillon, an Indian Tabla virtuoso, have been added to the mix for this ground breaking work. Like Oscar Peterson’s legendary Canadiana Suite, or Duke Ellington’s sacred concerts, Brad Turner’s new piece is sure to live on as a gem.

Experience the world premiere LIVE at Water’s Edge! Saturday, March 20 at 7:30pm.

Calling All Guitar Gurus

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:49:29 +0000

We welcome acoustic guitar players of all levels and abilities, and listeners, to join us on Saturday March 20to the all Canadian Guitar Jam. Bring your own guitar, capo, and any other necessary guitar paraphernalia, and jam along with us on the tunes that you know, and hang out and sing on the others.

The great Canadian pickin’ and grinnin’ tunes have been selected from “the Top 100 Canadian Albums” book by Bob Mersereau. The songs have been chosen based on their playability and singability by large groups, and by our particular bias and taste. Many wonderful songs have been omitted due to time constraints, but I would love to hear suggestions for future guitar jams.

The Guitar Jam is an all ages and all abilities opportunity. For inexperienced jammers, please note that listenin’ harder than you are playin’ will help us all play together. When playing with lots of guitars and singers, if we all listen for the leader’s guitar and vocals, then we all stand a better chance of starting and ending together as well as making better music.

Download the booklet from this website and have fun getting familiar with the music. We’ll see you on March 20th!

Andrew Clark & Malcolm Grier