Jazzfest International 

IMP(s) (Victoria)
Monday, June 25 2007
8:00pm doors at 7:30pm
$12.00

ZMF Trio (Vancouver/Toronto/New York)
Friday, June 29 2007
8:00pm doors at 7:30pm
$15.00

Marianne Trudel Quintet (Quebec)
Saturday, June 30 2007
8:00pm doors at 7:30pm
$15.00

IMP(s) (Victoria)

Monday, June 25 2007
8:00pm doors at 7:30pm
$12.00

The IMP(s) are a Victoria quintet of multi-instrumentalists who make intuitive, worldbeat influenced music that is the jumping off point for sound poetry, primal sonic experimentalism, visual theatre, throat chants, and subtle electronic effects. Imagine Tuvan hippies making 23rd century music and you might get close to the kind of music IMP(s) produce. These fearless musical pioneers include SharkaZdeninsyn, Franaine Buchal, Aaron Watson, Speedy Pete and Christopher Simon. “A giddy celebration . . . a sustained and otherworldly wash of shifting tonalities.” –Georgia Straight

ZMF Trio (Vancouver/Toronto/New York)

Friday, June 29 2007
8:00pm doors at 7:30pm
$15.00

This end-of-the-alphabet band includes celebrated Vancouver violinist and multiple Juno award-winner Jesse Zubot, New York bassist extraordinaire Joe Fonda (Archie Shepp, Kenny Barron, Billy Bang) and Toronto drummer Jean Martin (who has played with such notables as DD Jackson and Don Byron). Jesse and Joe have just released Circle the Path, but a live performance is by far the best way to appreciate the power and fluency of this fantastically exciting trio. website

Marianne Trudel Quintet (Quebec)

Saturday, June 30 2007
8:00pm doors at 7:30pm
$15.00

Marianne Trudel is fluent in classical, jazz and free improv,and boasting degrees in everything from jazz arranging to ethnomusicology, she is also a gifted composer and arranger (aside from working with Chucho Valdez and Hugh Fraser, she was one of seven composers chosen to study at the Henry Mancini Institute where her first composition for full orchestra was performed). Playing fearless improv, Trudel is a deft and sublimely talented musician. Her quintet includes Chet Doxas soprano saxophone, Jonathan Stewart tenor saxophone, Morgan Moore bass and Kelby MacNayr drums. “Vivid and emotionally direct.” – Coda Magazine website