Volume 29 Issue 6 | June, July & August 2024

GREEN PAGES Markham

GREEN PAGES Markham Village Music Festival Markham, ON JUMBLIES THEATRE: BORDER CROSSING ODYSSEY ➤ June 12 to 27, 2024 Jumblies Theatre, Toronto, ON Jumblies is a Toronto-based organization that engages in collaborations between professional artists and diverse people and places, mentoring and supporting others to do so as well. Jumblies expands where art happens, who gets to be part of it, what forms it takes and whose stories it tells. As a culmination of our multiyear project, we present: border crossing odyssey a series of performances and presentations of selected works from our multi-year project blue skies, red earth & tall pines -- including a suite of new music from Suba Sankaran plus other selected works performed by the Gather Round Singers and guests and a multimedia exhibition of comics, sculpture and audio art. Events will take place in Brampton, Toronto and Scarborough from June 12 to June 27. Contact us at info@jumbliestheatre.org ! 647-918-4824 www.jumbliestheatre.org www.facebook.com/jumbliestheatre LEITH SUMMER FESTIVAL ➤ June 22 to August 24, 2024 419134 Tom Thomson Lane, Leith, ON The Leith Summer Festival and Artistic Director Jeremy Bell present five concerts each summer in the Historic Leith Church, 12km from Owen Sound. The church is an intimate venue with excellent acoustics. The festival begins on Saturday, June 22 with a mix of Indo jazz and Classical with Autorickshaw and the Penderecki String Quartet. On Sunday, July 7, the New Zealand String Quartet performs Shostakovich and Debussy. The Swiss Piano Trio presents Dvorak’s Dumsky on Saturday, July 27. Benedict Lauziere, violin and Angel Park, piano will play Saint- Saens and Chausson on Sunday, August 11. On Saturday, August 24, Stewart Goodyear concludes the festival with Beethoven and Gershwin. Sunday afternoon concerts start at 2:30pm, Saturday evening concerts are at 7:30pm. Tickets are at www.roxytheatre.ca. For details, call 519-371-2833. 519-664-2092 www.leithchurch.ca www.facebook.com/LeithSummerFestival MARKHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL ➤ August 16 to 18, 2024 Main Street Unionville, Markham, ON The Markham Jazz Festival features more than 30 free jazz, blues, soul and related acts on three stages, as well as along Main St. and in area restaurants. The 2024 festival takes place Friday to Sunday, August 16 to 18. Experience award-winning music (Grammy and Juno winners) in Unionville’s charming heritage village setting. Free continuous shuttle from Markham Pan Am Centre (15 Main St. Unionville, near Unionville GO). Free Parking. Accessible. This year’s headliners include New York-based Duchess, and Grammy winner Nicole Zuraitis (Best Jazz Vocal Album 2024) on Friday evening. Saturday evening includes Jackie Richardson, Juno winner Dominique Fils-Aimé, plus the amazing U.N. Jefferson. On Sunday, Hilario Duran’s Big Band (2024 Juno winner for Jazz Album of the year) closes off the show. Come and have a ball! 647-983-7777 markhamjazzfestival.com www.facebook.com/markhamjazzfestival www.twitter.com/markhamjazzfest www.youtube.com/@markhamjazzfestival2823 MARKHAM VILLAGE MUSIC FESTIVAL ➤ June 14 to 15, 2024 Main Street, Markham, ON York Region’s largest outdoor music festival with five stages of multicultural entertainment (music and dance). More than 100 Craft and Food vendors, Farmers’ Market. Headliners include Tom Wilson, Zaki Ibrahim, Exodus: Bob Marley tribute with Lazo Finn, Georgia Harmer, Pony Girl, Rikashay, Samba Squad, Dan the Music Man, Los Moralitos, Junestone, Blackboard Blues Band, and more. Back again - Barkham will be at the north end of the street for dogs and their pet parents with vendors, Luge course and contests. The Kidz Zone at the bottom of the street will have games, performances, crafts. This is a family event for all ages. Friday from 6pm to 11pm; Saturday from 11am to 10pm. 647-983-9054 www.markhamfestival.com https://www.facebook.com/MarkhamVillageMusicFestival https://twitter.com/mvmfestival https://www.youtube.com/markhamfestival MUSIC AT PORT MILFORD ➤ July 13 to August 3, 2024 St. Mary Magdalene Church, Prince Edward County, ON Music at Port Milford Artist Chamber Music Series was established in 1987 and takes place on four consecutive Saturday evenings at St. Mary Magdalene Church, 335 Main St., Picton. Tickets: (adult), (youth 16 and under & students). Season Pass: 0 (adult), youth & students). Saturday, July 13, 7:30pm: “Beginnings” George Enescu; Trevor Wilson; Beethoven; Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson; Kevin Lau; Joseph Suk Saturday, July 20, 7:30pm: “Tenacity & Wit” Haydn; Margaret Brouwer; Ann Southam; Brahms Saturday, July 27, 7:30pm: “In Wonder” Ravel; Ian Cusson; Schumann; Ellington; Schubert; Dvorak Saturday, August 3, 7:30pm: “Romanceros”: 38 | Summer 2020 thewholenote.com

Schubert; Schumann; Gabriella Lena Frank; Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 914-439-5039 www.musicatportmilford.org MUSIC MONDAYS ➤ June 3 to September 2, 2024 Church of the Holy Trinity, Toronto, ON Music Mondays has served as a launching pad for emerging talent, and a celebration of established local talent since its inception in 1992. Our pay-what-youcan lunchtime concerts take place in the warm acoustics of Holy Trinity Church, just steps away from the Eaton Centre, in busy Downtown Toronto. Our goal is to provide the highest possible musical experience to a pay-what-you-can downtown Toronto audience. Our audience includes office workers, tourists, retired folks, young children, the homeless, students, and the musically curious. The acoustics of Holy Trinity are very special - warm and inviting. Please join us for this, our 33rd Season. Bring your lunch – and a friend – every Monday at 12:15pm from June 3 to Labour Day, September 2. Admission: Pay-what-you-can, to suggested. 416-598-4521, x223 www.musicmondays.ca www.facebook.com/MusicMondaysToronto www.twitter.com/musicmondayscs www.youtube.com/user/MusicMondaysHT OPEN EARS FESTIVAL OF MUSIC & SOUND ➤ May 30 to June 2, 2024 Kitchener/Waterloo, ON Join us at the Open Ears Festival 2024 (#OE24). Once again, this year’s festival brings some of the world’s highest calibre musicians to our region, featuring local, national, and international award-winning soloists and ensembles. We will present numerous performances and workshops to appease your curiosity and highlight the many cultural activities in our area, including the Canadian premiere of SIERRA performed by the one and only Vicki Chow, and the iconic experimental DJ Hieroglyphic Being. We also have more premiere performances, including sound installations, multi-media, foley workshops and a drag show. We look forward to seeing you there! www.openears.ca www.facebook.com/openearsfest www.twitter.com/openearsfest PORT HOPE JAZZ ➤ August 22 to 25, 2024 Port Hope, ON Port Hope Jazz strives to be Canada’s premier national jazz festival for the celebration of the diversity of Canadian Jazz arts excellence and to promote youth program development within a vibrant musical, economic and cultural atmosphere. We have a spectacular festival planned for August 22 to 25, 2024. This year’s event will feature performances by Allison Au, Mike Downes with Robi Botos and Ted Quinlan, Kellylee Evans, Ewen Farncombe and Alex Bird, Steve Holt with Kevin Turcotte, Kirk MacDonald, Duncan Hopkins and Terry Clark, Duncan Hopkins, George Koller, Joy Lapps-Lewis, Fern Lindzon, Charlotte McAfee-Brunner, Alex Pangman, Reg Schwager, Michael Shand and The Shuffle Demons. 905-885-2737 www.porthopejazz.com Music at Port Milford Prince Edward County, ON www.facebook.com/porthopejazz RHYTHMS OF CANADA ➤ June 29 to July 1, 2024 The Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, ON The culmination of a month of diverse musical performance, the Aga Khan Museum’s Rhythms of Canada Festival is returning for another weekend filled with live music, art, and family activities. Join us this summer from June 29 to July 1 and enjoy entrancing musical performances by a diverse range of local artists, special programming for all ages, delicious food, and our world-class collection of art from across the Muslim world. 416-646-4677 www.agakhanmuseum.org/rhythmsofcanada https://www.facebook.com/agakhanmuseumtoronto/?ref=page_internal https://twitter.com/agakhanmuseum SOMETHING ELSE! FESTIVAL ➤ June 20 to 23, 2024 St. Cuthbert’s (2 Bond. St. N., Westdale, Hamilton); HPL – Central Library (55 York Blvd., Hamilton); Open Streets – Bernie Morelli Hub – Jimmy Thompson Memorial Pool, Hamilton, ON Zula Music & Arts Collective Hamilton presents the annual Something Else! Festival along with a year-round music series mostly focusing on jazz, creative, free, improvised, experimental music and various folk traditions. Ticketed, multi-bill events at St. Cuthbert’s include: Thursday, June 20 at 7pm: Earth, Wind & Choir; Ugly Beauties; Gayle Young; Sofia Jernberg & Mats Gustafsson. Friday, June 21 at 8pm: Beingfive; Amrita; The End. Saturday, June 22 at 4pm: Tashi Dorji; Cluttertones; Emmeluth’s Amoeba; and at 8pm: Sakina Abdou; Doug Tielli’s Imaginary Brass; Dave Rempis & Tashi Dorji. Ticketed events are - advance tickets; - at the door; pass. Free events include: Saturday, June 22 at 12pm (HPL): Sakina Abdou & Dave Rempis; Aline’s Étoile Magique; Caroline Davis & Wendy Eisenberg thewholenote.com Summer 2024 | 39