The Misery Mountain Boys

Friday • 7:45 pm - 8:30 pm | The Alley (93 St & 118 Ave (Southside of 118))

The Misery Mountain Boys are a 4 piece band including guitar, upright bass, clarinet, saxophone, and drums (brushes), playing original music inspired by the 1930/40's era of swing and jump blues. You might hear the tunes of the Misery Mountain Boys drifting from behind a rotating bookcase of a 1930’s speakeasy. Harkening back to a simpler time, the MMB’s create a collaborative soundscape infused with tongue in cheek wit, playfulness, and nostalgia. The band’s performance delivers as both classic and fresh, offering a generous variety of sweaty jazz numbers, velvety love songs, and swingin' jump-blues.

Socials
Website: https://miserymountainboys.com/
Instagram: @miserymountainboys
Facebook: miserymountainboys
Youtube: The Misery Mountain Boys
Bandcamp: https://miserymountainboys.bandcamp.com/album/full-moon-shuffle

Chic Chameleon

Saturday • 5:15 pm - 6:00 pm | The Alley ( 93 St & 118 Ave (Southside of 118))
Sunday • 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm | The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse (9351 - 118 Ave)

Patrick Froese is a multi-instrumentalist and producer from Edmonton, Alberta, who grew up on a family farm in the vast Canadian prairies. Since 2019, Patrick has been working on his project -- Chic Chameleon. Drawing on his life experiences on the prairie farm, the Chic Chameleon project has helped to express Patrick’s musical and melancholic consciousness. Specifically, Patrick draws melodic inspiration from both Dream-pop and Shoegaze genres; he uses lush reverbs, mirrored delays, and syrupy chorus tones to shade his aural textures. Currently, Patrick is in the midst of releasing a debut, full length album and gearing up for an tour in September, 2024. The third single for the album, “Shade Your Way” was released July 19, 2024.

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Website: https://www.chicchameleon.com
Instagram: chicchameleon
Facebook: ChicChameleon
Twitter: ChicChameleon
Youtube: Chic Chameleon
Tik Tok: chicchameleon

Lori Reid

Friday • 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | The Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts (9225 - 118 Ave)

In service to the sacred sound, Lori Reid believes music, the really good stuff, is to be felt rather than heard.

With her 2003 recording debut RADIO, Reid channeled the waves of emotion, frequency and genres coming from the AM/FM dial.

With the fates, Reid (along with co-founders Jenny Allen and Lin Elder) traveled Canada with 2 cross country tours and 3 albums (Till We Have Faces, slam, Therapy), spanning 20 years as a group, with 2008’s Therapy hitting the #2 spot on the CKUA top 100 of 2008.

2012 saw Reid collaborate with Colin Linden (Bruce Cockburn, The Band, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings) on her second solo release, Temperance Hotel. Featuring Linden on multi instruments and scoring and production duties, fellow fate Lin Elder, Willie Nelson's harmonica collaborator, Mickey Rapheal, and Nashville master craftsmen, Bryan Owings and Dave Roe. Temperance Hotel peaked at #5 on the Roots Report and received National airplay on public, commercial and satellite radio.

Most recently, Reid has been finding comfort in the roots of popular music and the origins of folk with fellow songwriter, Heather Jean Jordan. Their multi-genre, time bending duo, The Evangelines, blending the light and shadows of the folk music landscape, is based out of Banff, AB.

Presently, Lori Reid is in "the elements"…her next collaboration with Colin Linden, featuring The rotting Matadors (John Dymond, Gary Craig, Ken Pearson).

Due for release in 2024, this latest production, the 3rd solo release from Reid, is a testament to living true to our nature.

Zack Lim

Saturday • 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm | The Nina Gallery (9225 118 Ave)

Sunday • 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm | The Nina Gallery (9225 118 Ave)

Zack grew up in Sherwood Park, playing (and practicing!) piano since the age of 5. Classically trained in Royal Conservatory, he often participated in the Sherwood Park music festivals and was an active leader in his high school band program. Currently, he is studying jazz at MacEwan University as a composition major, and enjoys listening to a wide variety of genres from jazz and classical all the way to J-rock and alternative. When not studying, Zack teaches at the Sherwood Park School of Music in hopes to develop his student’s skills so they can learn the joy of music!

Socials
Insta: @zack.lim

Audrey Ochoa

Saturday • 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm | The Alley (93 St & 118 Ave (Southside of 118))

Audrey Ochoa is one of Edmonton’s most prolific trombone players, playing Jazz, Rock, Pop, Latin, Punk, Ska and whatever other genre will have her. Audrey released her debut album in 2014, “Trombone and Other Delights” which spent several consecutive months on the !Earshot! Jazz Charts, eventually earning the #5 spot on the annual top 10 for 2014. She released her second album ”Afterthought” with her trio in 2017.

Socials
Website: https://audreyochoa.ca/

Jeremiah McDade

Friday • 6:45 pm - 7:30 pm | The Alley (93 St & 118 Ave (Southside of 118))

Saturday • 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | The Alley (93 St & 118 Ave (Southside of 118))

Saturday • 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm | The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse (9351-118 Ave)

Sunday • 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm [workshop] | The Alley (93 St & 118 Ave (Southside of 118))

Jeremiah McDade is an award winning multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger & composer. Jeremiah frequently performs at festivals and theatres throughout North America & Europe with his Juno Award winning group “The McDades” as well as collaborating and recording with a wide variety of artists. He can be heard on dozens of recordings and soundtracks and he has been a featured soloist on several occasions with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the Calgary Philharmonic. With one foot planted in the rich tradition of the saxophone, the other is firmly planted in the contemporary modality of jazz.

Socials
Website: https://themcdades.com/
Youtube: The McDades
Insta: themcdadesmakemusic
Facebook: The McDades

Eric Yaremko

Saturday • 3:00 pm

Discovery Stage (94 St & 118 Ave)

Eric Yaremko is a Ukrainian-Canadian musician from Edmonton Alberta. A pianist of 21 years with a background in classical training, he is also a singer and guitar player, a songwriter, performer, and co-writer. His sound oscillates across many genres including folk, pop, classical, traditional Irish, Ukrainian pop and R&B. He has been performing around Edmonton for 8 years and has performed in countries including Ireland, Norway and the United States.

Socials
Website: www.ericyaremko.com
Instagram: ericyaremk0
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ericyaremk0
Youtube: ericyaremko

Talesa Mandin

Saturday • 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm | The Nina Gallery (9225 118 Ave)

Talesa has been singing and playing piano for 28 years, since the young age of 4, starting her music journey in Music For Young Children's classes and then graduating into Royal Conservatory of Music. Talesa took a liking to making music at her church and singing in choirs at her schools, and those passions are what lead her to the majority of the work she seeks out in her professional career today. Being a graduate of Victoria School of Performing Arts, she was inspired to continue on to Grant MacEwan's Music Program majoring in Jazz and Contemporary Piano Performance. Today, you'll see Talesa singing and playing for many choirs and schools throughout the city of Edmonton and surrounding area (of note: EKO Singers, Accord Ensemble, Nuf Sed and FORM of the TIME Association, Kikimasu of the Korora [previously Kokopelli] Association, Memorial Composite High School choirs, Victoria School choirs, MD at Ross Sheppard for their spring Musical), Music Directing at Good Shepherd Anglican Church, accompanying for solo instruments and vocalists, performing in a band with her friends "Mallory and the Mystics", and freelancing in many various other capacities.

Socials
Insta: @mandin.music.talesa
Facebook: Talesa Mandin