SASHA MIKITENKO
5.15
Aleksandr Mikitenko is an indie-underground singer-songwriter, musician and translator from Odessa, Ukraine, who became a refugee along with his family because of the Russian-Ukrainian war and eventually settled in Toronto, Canada.
Aleksandr Mikitenko was a member of a huge Russian-speaking underground punk-rock community and best known as a leader of Istok, a band, that for decades has been playing music influenced by forceful alternative rock, impassioned punk and lyrically searching, singer-songwriter folk. He is also a co-founder of a lo-fi/post-punk duo Libertango along with his wife Marina Polianskaia, who were true followers of the All Wave Philosophy.
LADY SON
7.00
One of the most arresting voices on the Canadian music scene, often drawing comparisons to music legend Celia Cruz, Lady Son/Lady Yetunde (Yeti Ajasin), brings a powerful yet gentle contemporary voice to the rich vocal and percussion traditions of Afro-Cuban music.
20$ cover after 10pm, with all proceeds going directly to the musicians performing.
MONEKA ARABIC JAZZ
11.30
$20/ at the door
Led by charismatic bandleader Ahmed Moneka, Moneka Arabic Jazz is a project reflecting his life and journey in art from Baghdad to Toronto. It fuses Maqam – a style of Arabic music he learned in his native Iraq – and African groove and rhythm that he inherited from his African descendants. A true reflection of Toronto’s multiculturalism, the band combines styles and influences from the Mediterranean, to North Africa, the Middle East and North America. The band features members from across the world, who all found each other here in Toronto.
CHAMELEON PROJECT
2.30
Since 2003, Toronto-based Livetronica jam-band Chameleon Project has been blending both electronic and organic instrumentation to create psychedelic dance floor odysseys that stimulate the senses of followers across Canada and the United States.
A Chameleon Project show is both head-nod and foot-loose, a resplendently pulsating dance party where positive energy is contagious.