RAGWAX
6.30

Chris Woolley, guitar $ vocals
Abbey Sholzberg, double bass

Ragwax per­for­mance brings fresh vi­gour to vin­tage 1900s-1940s jazz. He re­in­ter­prets and incor­po­rates blues, jump blues, hot jazz, a bit of rocka­billy, ori­gi­nal, and mo­dern songs in­to his unique yet cu­rious­ly fa­mi­liar sound. The re­sul­ting pre­sen­ta­tion is pro­vo­ca­tive and dis­tinctly reso­nant.

HIMALAYAN PINK
8.30

After a series of obsessively over-laboured and ultimately unreleased projects, Himalayan Pink began as an effort to get out of creativity’s way. Close friends and collaborators for over a decade, songwriter David Johnstone and multi-instrumentalist Bjorn Kriel started recording demos with saxophonist David Hodgson in early 2021 and within weeks released their debut EP, Permanent Vacation. In 2023, the band happily welcomed bassist Adrian Russouw and drummer Ambrose Veno. Blending tongue-in-cheek charisma, fortune cookie philosophy, and the poetry of Eros with the soundscapes of psychedelia, folk, and early rock ’n’ roll, Himalayan Pink will be sure to melt your heart.

LAURA DAE
11.30

Laura Dae is an emerging Canadian singer/songwriter based in Toronto, Ontario. Her music combines alternative sounds with personal lyrics, digging into the heartstrings of her listeners.