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SOMETHING ELSE! Festival of Creative Music
ZULA Presents
The Fifth Annual SOMETHING ELSE! Festival
June 13-17, 2018
126 JAMES 126 James St. N., Hamilton, Ontario Canada
All concerts at 126 JAMES, except: Snow & Stewart FREE Concert Saturday, June 16 (Noon) Hamilton Public Library - Central Branch
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Zula Music & Arts Collective Hamilton has been presenting vital, adventurous, creative live music in the city since 2014, programming world-renowned touring artists, as well as national, regional, and local artists, and connecting them with audiences and one another from near and far.
Zulas programming for SOMETHING ELSE! Festival (and the year round series) covers a wide array of vital, adventurous, creative music and dance; newer traditions in jazz, free, experimental, the avant-garde, improvised music & multidisciplinary arts from various scenes around the world.
From June 13th to the 17th, world-renowned artists from all over N. America & Europe will congregate in Hamilton to play over 5 days, 7 ticketed events, 30 sets of music & dance (including a workshop)!
This years artist in residence, Ottawa percussionist, improviser, teacher, instrument builder, visual and sound artist, Jesse Stewart will perform with many revered visiting and local artists, including iconoclasts and torchbearers:
Eugene Chadbourne (US) William Parker (US) Joe McPhee (US) Michael Snow (CA) Roger Turner/Monicker (UK/CA) Susan Alcorn & Amy Brandon (US/CA) Will Guthrie (FR) David Mott (CA) Heather Cornell (US/CA) Nicolas Caloia (CA) Artifacts Trio (US) The Young Mothers (US/NO) Parker & Nicholson's Hope Cries for Justice (US) Gord Grdina Quartet (US/CA) Cluttertones (CA) Sick Boss + Löve (SE/CA), and much, much more!
Tickets: $20-35 Passes: $100-125 (for 30 sets of music and dance, up to $225 value)
Phone Number: 289.993.1993 Website: zulapresents.org Facebook: facebook.com/ZulaPresents Twitter: twitter.com/ZulaPresents Video: vimeo.com/223623697
Full 2018 SOMETHING ELSE! Festival Schedule:
JUNE 13 (7 pm -- $28 advance / $35 door)
JESSE STEWART (Artist in Residence) drums, percussion
EARTH WIND & CHOIR SARAH GOOD conductress
BANGUISA X TARJO: Old Cootes New Music Trio GARY BARWIN voice, saxophone, flutes RYAN BARWIN guitars VICTOR VRANKUJL banjo, bass
CHADBOURNE / PARKER / STEWART EUGENE CHADBOURNE guitar, banjo WILLIAM PARKER double bass JESSE STEWART drums, percussion
THE YOUNG MOTHERS JAWWAAD rhymes, trumpet STEFAN GONZALEZ vibraphone, drums, vocal INGEBRIGT H. FLATEN acoustic & electric bass JASON JACKSON tenor & baritone saxophone JONATHAN HORNE guitar JEFFREY OLSON drums
JUNE 14 (7 pm -- $28 advance / $35 door)
EDGARDO MORENO strings, electronics, video
HOPE CRIES FOR JUSTICE PATRICIA NICHOLSON dance, text WILLIAM PARKER bass, ngoni
ARTIFACTS TRIO NICOLE MITCHELL flute TOMEKA REID cello MIKE REED drums
SONOLUMINESCENCE TRIO DAVID MOTT baritone saxophone WILLIAM PARKER bass JESSE STEWART drums
JUNE 15 (7 pm -- $28 advance / $35 door)
MIKE HANSEN electronics
EUGENE CHADBOURNE guitar, banjo, vocals
JOE MCPHEE saxophones, pocket trumpet
CLUTTERTONES LINA ALLEMANO trumpet TIM POSGATE banjo, guitar ROB CLUTTON double bass RYAN DRIVER analogue synthesizer
MCPHEE / CALOIA / STEWART JOE MCPHEE reeds, trumpet NICOLAS CALOIA double bass JESSE STEWART drums
JUNE 16 (Noon)
----- Free Concert at HPL - Central Branch SNOW & STEWART MICHAEL SNOW piano JESSE STEWART drums, percussion -----
JUNE 16 (2 pm -- $20 advance / $25 door)
2 pm Double Bill TAPS & TRAPS HEATHER CORNELL tap dance JESSE STEWART drums, percussion
GENNARO / HUNDEVAD MARK HUNDEVAD vibraphone, piano MIKE GENNARO drums
HEATHER CORNELL WORKSHOP (Free admission to observe for 2 pm ticket holders and $25/20 for participants)
JUNE 16 (7 pm -- $28 advance / $35 door)
CHADBOURNE / GUTHRIE EUGENE CHADBOURNE guitar, banjo WILL GUTHRIE drums, percussion
MONICKER ARTHUR BULL guitar SCOTT THOMSON trombone ROGER TURNER drums
SUSAN ALCORN pedal steel guitar
THE REVIVAL ENSEMBLE: Plays Ellingtons Far East Suite TED CROSBY tenor saxophone, clarinets LISEN RYLANDER LOVE tenor saxophone KAREN NG alto saxophone, clarinet ALAN MACKIE violin SCOTT THOMSON trombone LINA ALLEMANO trumpet REBECCA HENNESSY trumpet MICHAEL DAVIDSON vibraphone HARLEY CARD guitar COLE SCHMIDT guitar JAMES MEGER bass DAN GAUCHER drums
JUNE 17 (2 pm -- $20 advance / $25 door) AFTERNOON
LEE / PALMER / BENNETT + STEWART DAVID LEE double bass CHRIS PALMER guitar CONNOR BENNETT reeds with JESSE STEWART drums, percussion
SICK BOSS + LÖVE COLE SCHMIDT guitar JAMES MEGER bass DAN GAUCHER drums with LISEN RYLANDER LÖVE sax, voice, electronics
WILL GUTHRIE drums, percussion
ALCORN / BRANDON SUSAN ALCORN pedal steel guitar AMY BRANDON classical guitar
JUNE 17 (7 pm -- $28 advance / $35 door)
FASTER KAYLA MILMINE clarinet, vocals BRIAN ABBOTT guitar
EUCALYPTUS BRODIE WEST alto saxophone NICOLE RAMPERSAUD trumpet RYAN DRIVER synthesizer ALEX LUKASHEVSKY guitar MIKE SMITH bass NICK FRASER drums BLAKE HOWARD percussion
GORD GRDINA QUARTET GORD GRDINA oud, guitar OSCAR NORIEGA clarinets, alto saxophone RUSS LOSSING piano SATOSHI TAKEISHI drums
STRETCH TRIO KEVIN BREIT guitar MATT BRUBECK cello JESSE STEWART drums
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Big thanks to Centre3 for opening their doors at 126 James all of our festival, with the exception of the free concert at HPL-Central Branch
Made possible by kind support from the Ontario Arts Council and the City of Hamilton
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Location126 JAMES (View)
126 James St. N.
Hamilton, ON L8R 2K7
Canada
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