Juno Award-winning Singer-Songwriter Dawn Tyler Watson has earned her place among the International Blues elite. She adopted Montreal as her home after earning her BFA in Jazz Studies and Theatre from Concordia University.

Since then, her fiery stage presence and soul-stirring performances have garnered her national and world-wide recognition with multiple awards including Maple Blues Awards for Songwriter, Best Album, Female Vocalist of the Year, and a 2020 American Blues Music Nomination for Vocalist of the Year alongside greats like Curtis Salgado & Mavis Staples.

Her latest record “Mad Love,” was just awarded the 2020 JUNO award for Blues Album of the Year.

Musicians:
Dawn Tyler Watson: vocals
John Sadowy: piano
bass
drums

Youtube video: “It Don’t Mean A Thing”

Active on the music scene for over twenty years, Johnston has performed and recorded with many of the worlds best, including John Abercrombie, Don Alias, Shirley Jeff Johnston is a Canadian based jazz pianist, film composer, and educator. His works are infused with alluring harmonies, lush textures, rhythmic inventiveness and spontaneity. Chuck Berg of Jazz Times Magazine wrote “This is music, that while at the contemporary cutting edge, is both immediately and immensely satisfying.” Johnston’s trio and quartet recordings established him as one of the country’s most respected pianists and composers, leading the Toronto Star’s Geoff Chapman to deem Johnston as “clearly in Canada’s top ranks” and the Globe and Mail’s Mark Miller to say ” This is Canadian jazz at it’s best”.

Johnston has recorded and performed with some of the biggest names in jazz including John Abercrombie, Sheila Jordan, Dave Liebman and Kenny Wheeler. His film music has been heard on PBS, CBC-TV, CBC Newsworld, The Documentary Channel, Teletoons, CTV, Global TV and he has scored numerous films for the National Film Board of Canada.

Lex French — trumpet
Kenji Omae — tenor saxophone
Jeff Johnston — piano
Paul Rushka — bass
Anthony Michelli — drums

Charlotte Désilets is a vocalist, arranger, bandleader, improviser and whose performance is rooted in blues and musical theater. Together with her band, Charlotte offers original and lively renditions of French and Quebec classics as well as jazz standards. Continuously striving for innovation and authenticity, Charlotte is launching a new surprise EP: “Jam chez Félix” to share her recent explorations with band sound and vocal improvisation.

Musicians:
Charlotte Désilets – vocals
Sam Fortin – piano
Samuel Baglier – saxophone
Joao Menegale Barbi – double bass
Matys Colpron – drums

Youtube video: Forteresse