Garden Parties at the Dalnavert Museum
Jazz Winnipeg proudly presents its series of Garden Parties at the Dalnavert Museum for summer 2021. Enjoy music, refreshments, and light fare at the garden of the Dalnavert, a small Victorian mansion nestled in the heart of downtown Winnipeg. Concerts will go ahead rain or shine.
*Please note: All ticket purchasers and guests must be fully vaccinated. Proof of vaccination will be required at the door prior to admission. Request your provincial immunization card and access your QR code at immunizationcard.manitoba.ca. Ticketholders who fail to show proof of immunization will not be admitted.*
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Sunday, July 25
Erin Propp and Larry Roy
There is nuance in the everyday: in its layers of love, joy, and hurt, and in its emotional currents ever present. Erin Propp and Larry Roy reach into the everyday and blur the edges, creating works that are at once deeply personal and achingly relatable. These are songs that take it all in, that read between the lines, that hear the subtext, that feel it, that say it out loud.
Their music rings true with nuance and power, with rare clarity and precision. Their musical abilities are tools of exacting expression, expertly honed. They reach in to resonate; calling the listener inside, sounding the overtones of our shared experience.
Erin and Larry’s debut album Courage, My Love (2012) was met with praise and acclaim. The recording won Best Jazz Album of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards (2013) and a Juno nomination in the category of Vocal Jazz Album of the Year (2014). Erin and Larry can do it all, from charming intimate club sets to moving concert hall performances, and key arts organizations have taken note. Erin and Larry have performed with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, and have opened for Gretchen Parlato at the TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival. The second studio album from this Manitoba duo, We All Want the Same Things, was released earlier this year.
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Sunday, August 1
Marco Castillo Trio
Winnipeg, the multicultural capital of Canada, is very lucky to have such an amazing artist like Marco Castillo to represent the vast and complex culture of Brazil. Born in the Capital Samba, Rio de Janeiro, he was raised in a musical family and that's evident in his musical knowledge. Afro-Brazilian & Latin Samba-Jazz Funk probably best describes Marco's music. Blending the unique traditional rhythms and contemporary sounds of Brazil with lush jazz-voicings and epidemic grooves, Marco has been impressing international audiences around the globe. A talented multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and bandleader, Castillo made Canada his home in 2006. Following in his father's footsteps, a man who recorded tons of albums (including with Nat King Cole) and toured the world with Trio Irakitan, Marco's skills were honed at the feet of the best. Castillo's extensive musical and rhythmic expertise spans from the gentle, warm musical embrace of the romantic Bossa-Nova, rustic and contagious root rhythms of Baião, and the festive, upbeat, exuberant Samba, to the velvety sounds of Smooth Jazz, and alluring, infectious funky grooves.
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Saturday, August 7
Juvel
Juvel is the musical project of four dynamic musicians who strive to keep your toes tapping with the energetic sound of Romani jazz and early swing. Heavily inspired by musicians like Django Reinhardt and the Andrews Sisters, Juvel combines the dark, chromatic flavor of Romani music with the carefree liveliness of swing.
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Sunday, August 15
Karly Epp and Karl Kohut
Karly Epp and Karl Kohut have been frequent collaborators, having spent several years living in New York City performing at top venues including Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, the Blue Note and the 55 Bar. Their music combines a love for straight-ahead swing with contemporary influences from today’s leading jazz artists. In 2018, Karly and Karl returned to Winnipeg as full-time faculty members at the Desautels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba.
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Saturday, August 28
Casati
Casati is best characterized as a folk trio with an open mind. Grace Hrabi, Jesse Popeski, and Quintin Bart are formally trained musicians and graduates of the University of Manitoba's jazz studies program. In the last three years as a band, they have found their voice as a unique blend of all the music that inspires them: the heartbreak of a country ballad, the vocal harmonies of 1950s and ‘60s pop, and the instrumental virtuosity of jazz and classical music, creating a sound that is familiar yet original.
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Sunday, September 5
Jaime Carrasco Trio
Jaime Carrasco, born in Chile, has been playing drums since 1985, and has been teaching since 2005. He received a diploma in Jazz Studies from Malaspina University-College (now Vancouver Island University) in 1999, and an Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from York University in Toronto in 2002, where he majored in jazz drumset, South Indian classical percussion, and West African Drumming.
In 2003, he was selected to participate in the prestigious International Jazz Workshop at The Banff Centre for the Arts, where he studied with Dave Douglas, Jason Moran, Mark Turner, and Clarence Penn. Since returning to Winnipeg in 2005, Jaime has been freelancing, performing and touring with groups/bands such as: Jane Bunnett, Brandi Disterheft, Papa Mambo, The Perms, Knappen Street All-Stars, Marco Castillo, C Ladd, Michelle Gregoire, Chuck McClelland, Jeff Presslaff, Karl Kohut, Janice Finlay, Rick Boughton, Dave Lawton, Amber Epp, Joey & Dave Landreth, Dr. Hotbottom, Flying Fox and The Hunter Gatherers, Andrew Littleford, Mike Swickis, and many others.