ORI DAGAN TRIO
7.00

Award-winning 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. Dagan's rich bass-baritone is unmistakable. His consistently forward-thinking style is inspired by hundreds of heroines and heroes, including Sheila Jordan (with whom Dagan recorded a duet in 2017). 

Kevin Barrett - Guitar
Bill McBirnie - Flute

JESSE MAXWELL
11.00

Distinctive in his own brand of Pop, Alternative R&B and Soul, Toronto native Jesse Maxwell has morphed into a prolific singer/songwriter/producer of his own making. Maxwell started releasing music in 2019 with his debut album, Radio Silence (Trans Phatt Records), which quickly garnered substantial play on SiriusXM and over 400k streams on Spotify. Maxwell fed his new audience’s hunger for his fresh take on Pop/Alternative R&B with the EP Hellion, released in 2021, the album LP2, released in 2022, and most recently, acoustic reimaginings of five previously released songs with the EP basement acoustic sessions, in 2023. “I’m a 0 or 100 person, but I’m on 100 most of the time so that momentum is really important to helping me feel that I’m being productive and growing.” In three short years, Jesse Maxwell has indeed gone from 0 to 100: racking up 1.3 million streams on Spotify; becoming a regular fixture on radio across Canada; making inroads internationally (via a #1 on the People’s Soul Choice Charts on the UK’s Delite Radio); and gaining a well-deserved reputation as a prolific, deeply lyrical storyteller and a distinctively compelling voice in modern soul.