Lakefield Jazz, Art & Craft Festival

JUNO Award winner Ernesto Cervini is a sought-after drummer, composer and bandleader and an influential presence on Canada’s modern jazz scene and beyond. He has documented his vision with the Ernesto Cervini Quartet (featuring Joel Frahm), the innovative sextet Turboprop, numerous co-led trio projects including MEM3, Myriad3 and TuneTown, and also the quartet Tetrahedron, featuring acclaimed guitarist Nir Felder, electric bassist Rich Brown and alto saxophonist Luis Deniz.

In all these settings, as J.D. Considine of JazzTimes has written, Cervini “drums like someone who’s an arranger at heart, carefully placing each accent for maximum melodic impact.” He’s been cited by Modern Drummer for his old-school knowledge and feel in the spirit of Art Blakey and Billy Higgins, yet credited by Musicweb International as a maker of music “grounded in the language of hard bop but not confined by it.”

Toronto born Indie-swing chanteuse Denielle Bassels is a rising star on the Canada jazz scene. Her whimsical brand of music is a caravan of jazz manouche, blues, folk, with a tinge of pop, all wrapped in an innovative and scintillating package. Her unique and powerful voice will "stop you in your tracks" - Juliet Dunn, Musical Director, TD Niagara Jazz Festival.

Already an award-winning artist for the song "Cool Cool Water" from her 2017 album What About WoolWishbags, Bassels garnered the Grand Prize in the prestigious John Lennon Songwriting Competition, for Jazz, and as well, she was Finalist in the JLSC for the originals Catch Her And She Gone, Dreamer, And Nothing Else, Silly Lion, and Gone.

Professional saxophonist in the Greater Toronto Area, specializing in jazz and popular music. I endorse Yamaha saxophones, Phil Barone mouthpieces, and Légere Signature reeds.

Noah Abrahamse is an accomplished Alto Saxophonist, band leader and composer/arranger based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Noah received his Bachelor of Music Performance from Humber College where he was a two-time award winner of the Kenny McLean Memorial Scholarship. Noah specializes in Latin and Jazz music and has been hailed by titans such as Hilario Duran, Laura Fernandez and Joaquin Nunez Hidalgo.

Noah released his debut studio Latin Jazz album “Dias Latinos” with his band, the Mumbo Jumbo Combo, in July 2024. The album swiftly made its way through the airwaves around the world, where it is being played on multiple jazz radio stations. Raul Da Gama (Latin Jazz Net) described Abrahamse as “…a prodigiously gifted musician of whom much will be surely expected in the near and far future.” DJ El Chino (International journal, Solar Latin Club) describes the album as “a worthy and epic debut, one of the best productions of the year.”

Abrahamse’s music is indicative of the influence of his mentors, coupled with a unique and vibrant style of his own. He merges the rhythms of Cuba and Latin America with the melodies of Jazz tradition to create music that is complex, yet relatable.

Simultaneously sophisticated and raw, Carlos del Junco's playing blurs the boundaries between blues and jazz (hence the name for his band “The Blues Mongrels”). The emphasis is on blues, but Carlos and his band are not afraid to merrily traipse off in other directions delivering a seamless fusion of New Orleans second line grooves, swing, Latin, ska melodies, to swampy roots rock.

Playing a ten hole diatonic harmonica, Carlos has developed the unique ability to play chromatically by using a recently developed "overblow" technique taught to him by jazz virtuoso Howard Levy. Overall, this approach to the diatonic harmonica, although much more difficult to achieve, is in many ways more expressive and communicative than the mechanized tone produced by the chromatic harmonica . Carlos is one of the few pioneers of this overblow method, bringing musical credibility to what has still been considered by many in the music industry - a fringe folk instrument. The sophisticated sound produced by del Junco is both soulful and sensitive while never forgetting the rawness inherent in blues music.

Fine art acrylic paintings

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