CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
6.00 - 8.00
The Vince Guaraldi Trio-bute is sure to put you in the spirit of the season as they play The Charlie Brown Christmas Album live in its entirety. On top of performing this classic album, they will continue to delight your ears with more jazzy festive favourites!
Piano - Alan Zemaitis
Bass - Chris Kettlewell
Drums Kyle Sullivan
ELIANA CUEVAS QUINTET
8.30 - 11.00
Through years of touring around the world, across Canada, and collaborating with Juno and Grammy Award-winning performers, Eliana Cuevas has grown into an accomplished singer-songwriter and bandleader with unlimited colours in her compositional and lyrical palette. Shehas released 6 albums of original music to this date: Cohesión (2001), Ventura (2004) Vidas (2007), Espejo (2013), Golpes y Flores (2017) and most recently El Curruchá (2021). Eliana has performed with a long list of prominent artists such as Larnell Lewis, Drew Jurecka, Jane Bunnett, Jesse Cook, Alex Cuba, Hermeto Pascoal, Hilario Durán, David Rudder, OKAN, Celso Machado, Sophie Milman, George Koller, Jackie Richardson, Mark Kelso, Rich Brown, Alexis Baró, Rich Underhill, Kiran Ahluwalia, Dione Taylor, Heather Bambrick, Aline Morales, Don Thompson, Laila Biali, Brandi Disterheft, Aquiles Báez and Emilie-Claire Barlow among others.
DJ FRISSON
11.00 - ALL NIGHT
BAD BREED
11.30 - 2.00
Bad Breed is a Toronto based band that mixes rock, funk and soul in a very electrifying way. Their discography includes “The Violent World of Bad Breed” (2016), “ The Bad Breed In Ferocious love” (2020) and “The Bad Breed Plays Execution Music” (2021). The band features Maylin Ortega Zulueta on bass and lead vocals, Mike Gribben on lead vocals, Mike Glendon on guitar and sax, and Brandon Pellatt on drums. They have conquered Toronto’s music scene playing at the Horseshoe Tavern, Sneaky Dee’s, Monarch Tavern, Tail of the Junction, Linsmore Tavern, Junction City Music Hall, Dakota Tavern, and The Grand Gerrard among other iconic venues. Their muscular funk bass riffs, lightning-sharp guitar improvisations, and soulful anthems of love and despair are a testament to the transformative power of music.
ASTROSURF NUTCRACKER
2.30 - 3.45
It's time for our annual holiday tradition: Astrosurf's The Nutcracker.
Seriously Tchaikovsky wrote some real bangers, the Nutcracker Suite is all hits.