Ingrid Jensen Workshop

June 20, 1pm
ArtSpring Theater
Cost – free of charge

Ingrid and her band will be available to work with young musicians, aged 11 to 14. This event is sponsored by Shine and is open to the general public. Students from the GIFTS program have been invited to attend the audience. The topics covered will be improvisation and ensemble playing. Ingrid is a strong advocate for jumping in there and doing it and actively encourages students to participate.

Ingrid has been on staff at the Port Townsend Centrum Jazz Workshop for the past five years and from 1990 until 1992 held the professor of Jazz Trumpet chair at the Bruckner Conservatory of Music. Jensen continues to fill her schedule with an astonishing array of artistic creativity as a performer and educator. In addition to performing, she conducts master classes, clinics, and workshops around the world.

Moby's Blues Jam

Megan Manning photo

Every second Thursday 7:30pm
Moby's Marine Pub

Every second Thursday there is a different feature artist with the Dave Roland Trio.
Local and visiting blues musicians are invited up to join in. The evening is lively, fun and often surprising!

Vandermark/Nilssen-Love Duo

June 17 8pm
All-Saints-By-The-Sea (110 Park Drive)
Tix. $15 in advance, available at Acoustic Planet Music
or by reservation (250) 247-7123 or hey@zula.ca

$18 at the door

Vandermark and Nilssen-Love started their collaboration in 2000 when the group School Days was formed. One year later they started FME, a trio with bass player Nate McBride. After this it seemed very natural to define a duo. The first occasion using this format was to record the cd "Dual Pleasure" in Oslo during the summer of 2002. Shortly after this they performed their first duo concert at Molde International Jazz Festival. "Dual Pleasure" was released by the Norwegian label smalltownsupersound and has received excellent reviews, such as the statement by Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet
(Terje Mosnes): "This is free improvised music of very high energy."

Vandermark is stretching the tenor, baritone saxophone and Bb clarinet in a continuous flow of tones and timbres, whilst the Stavanger-drummer Nilssen-Love proves his reputation of being the avant-garde jazz' most powerful mallet and stick wizard. However, Vandermark's logical lines stir the flow of energy. Though tonal and rhythmic patterns/structures appear, the duo does not seek simple solutions. This is raw music, with a brutal beauty, which becomes more and more exhilarating the more you let the music take control of body and mind and set aside the normal understanding of nice
and ugly."

For more information email:
info@saltspringjazzfest.org

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