ORI DAGAN
7.30

Jazz singer-songwriter Ori Dagan has attracted a dedicated and growing audience, both in his native Toronto and internationally. He brings a wry and agile sense of swing to everything he does, whether interpreting a standard, spinning a pop tune on its head or introducing his own original music and lyrics

OKTOPUS
10 - 11

Oktopus is a major presence on the Canadian world music scene, with over 250 performances to its credit at home and abroad. The group is primarily devoted to klezmer—the musical heritage of Eastern European Jews—distinguished by a novel approach that incorporates various components of classical, Quebecois, and jazz repertoires.

The group’s eight virtuoso musicians offer festive, high-energy performances, at once melancholic and profound, sprinkled with humour and spiced with narrative, in which original compositions and finely crafted arrangements combine with improvisation. Its members’ complicity, shared passion, and hard work are what makes each of their performances so memorable—whether on stage, in the street, on a ship, in a hot air balloon or in your living room, Oktopus is simply… spectentacular!

EIGHTH STREET ORCHESTRA
11.30 - 2

A mostly brass ensemble playing its very own brand of '20's & '30's vintage dance-band swing and dixieland. The Orchestra appears regularly busking the downtowns, at special events in and around, and spontaneously and without warning in parkettes, bandstands, harbours, plaza squares, garden parties and sidewalks all over Southern Ontario.

THE TANAKA PROJECT
2.30 - 4

TANAKA CONCEPT is a young contemporary jazz group based out of Toronto. The band takes influences from jazz, hip hop, and rock and melts the genres together through their original compositions and arrangements.