THE HORABLES
6.00
Klezmer Trio
TAREK FUNK
8.30
Tarek Funk is Syrian Palestinian multi-instrumentalist/emcee/band leader making Arabesque Afrobeat Funk Hip-Hop fusion music. Tarek Funk began his journey as an artist in 2009, and has independently toured Canada from coast to coast, performed in intimate DIY venues as well as large festivals, appeared on college radio charts with 3 LPs and 3 EPs, as well as a number of guest appearances on other artists' tracks. Tarek Funk makes liberation themed music with poetic conscious lyricism and powerful political messages. His background as a an improvisational jazz artist has compelled him towards creating Hip-Hop music with a live band element, slowly growing his sound into a unique expression that tastefully blends Arabic folk, Afrobeat, Funk, and experimental Jazz.
Growing up in Damascus, Syria, Tarek fell in love with music from an early age, obsessing over Ziad Rahbani's jazzy arrangements of classics by the legendary Lebanese singer Fairuz. Years later when his family moved to Toronto in 1998, he was reintroduced to jazz through learning to play the saxophone. That moment sparked an epic three decade journey of sound that took Tarek on independent tours from Halifax to Tofino. His most recent project pays tribute to the music of Fairuz and the Rahbani family, presented by the Tarek Funk Band, assembling into a jazzy quartet formation.
$15 cover after 10PM and $20 after 2AM, with all proceeds going directly to the musicians performing.
GLAVA LAVA
11.30
Electro-Serbian and Balkan Brass
SAUCE PIQUANTE
2.30
The Sauce Piquante Soundsystem is the live experience of Montreal kitchen party label MTL Sauce Piquante. It is made up of producer and DJ Oonga, singers and rappers KC and Gioco, along with a rotating cast of party animal musicians based in Montreal. It was formed in the summer of 2023 in Oonga’s kitchen after an MTL Sauce Piquante showcase was rained out and the musicians had nowhere to go. The group has been building its following in Montreal through the power of its live performances, full of party-starting improvisations over home-cooked instrumentals, with performances at festivals including Nuits d’Afrique, SRXP, Verdun 150, Entrepôt 77 and more. The first MTL Sauce Piquante album, Cracher le feu, came out in June 2024.