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To Elizabeth Shepherd / Parkdale
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Carin
Redman
(Red, Whyte & Tollar)
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Toronto
( via Denmark)
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The debut show the trio did at Musideum
was small, intimate and filled with magical harmonies with Mark Kieswetters
beautiful arrangements.
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Gregory Porter (always) and Trombone Shorty(mind-blowing)
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She first played my club Ten Feet Tall in 2007, loved her
then and still love and follow her now
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Yvette
Tollar
(Red,
Whyte & Tollar)
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Toronto
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Kensington Jazz Festival which I'll be doing again this
year as I have since its inception.
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Miles
Davis at Roy Thompson Hall, and Brian
Blade's Fellowship Band at Koerner Hall.
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I met Elizabeth in Vancouver at the Junos in 2009. We
were nominated in the same category. Best jazz vocal. Me for my album Ima.
Elizabeth for Parkdale. Since then we have become friends and toured across
Canada and to the States with Michael Occhipinti's project The Universe of
John Lennon. We both appear on the album together. I also sang back ups for
her latest CD The Signal. We did a gig together recently at the Jazz Bistro
featuring music from both our projects.
I lived in
Parkdale for about 11 years in the 90's and 2000's. Cool neighbourhood in
that you've got all the best of city life but are also 5 minutes walk from
nature by the lake.
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Chloe Watkinson
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Toronto
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My friend Kate's wedding, I was also a bridesmaid.
Seconded by a song at Preservation Hall with Doc Houlind.
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Fireworks over Central New York (about 10,000 ppl,
playing Dark Side of the Moon under a full moon and fireworks). Best shows
I've seen: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Selecter, Fishbone, Max Webster.
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Lived in Parkdale for 6 years
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Charmizelle Jorman
(The Memberz)
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Brampton
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Pavilion at Kensington Market Pedestrian Sunday
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Stevie Wonder
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My significant other lives in Parkdale
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Valeria Matzner
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Montevideo, Uruguay.
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Vancouver International Jazz Festival at a packed David
Lam Park
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Astor Piazzolla’s concert in Buenos Aires
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We are both women and singers and we have the same
bassist.
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Jessica Stuart
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Vancouver
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The Yokohama Jazz Promenade at the majestic Minato Mirai
Concert Hall
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My first mind-bending show as a teenager was Jamiroquai -
it was the first time I had seen a band complete with horn section, xtra
percussion, etc playing such groovy interesting music that made me dance my
butt off.
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Connection to Elizabeth Shepherd - former label-mates on
Do Right! Music, have shared festival stages, Elizabeth played Rhodes on The
Jessica Stuart Few's last full-length album The Passage and was a guest
co-lead vocalist on a tune as well.
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Collette Savard
(The SavantEs)
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North Bay
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A concert series at the Almonte town hall. It was a full
house of appreciative folk and the space looked and sounded amazing. I dream
of doing shows like that all the time
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Lyle Lovett and his large band. It had it all: the best
rhythm section, bluegrass players, soul singers etc. and the charming Lyle
delivery great songs.
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I lived at Brock and Dundas for a year and according to
the boundaries from Wikipedia Roncesvales is the border so I still live in
Parkdale. Who knew?!
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Rebecca Campbell
(The SavantEs)
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Ottawa (born in Toronto; early childhood in Sackville NB;
Ottawa in ’71; university in Montreal…)
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With Jane Siberry: The Wiltern in Los Angeles with The
Roches; a run at OCA in London; Whelan’s in Dublin; our 3 month series at The
Bottom Line in New York… in the round at the Amphitheatre;
with Fat Man Waving: Longevity John’s dog’s
wake in a tent in Duncan BC; Halloween night at The State in Ithaca NY with
The Horseflies; our final shows at The Downstairs Club and Blue Skies in
1995;
with Three Sheets To The Wind: opening up for
Leo Kottke at The Kenricia Hotel in Kenora (and dinner with him before the
show…)
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Buffy Sainte-Marie this past Sunday night
from side stage at Mariposa FF… Bob Marley at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa a year
before he died; David Bowie in a relatively small bar in Queens on his tour
of the Five Boroughs; Prince at Wembley Stadium; a million Rough Idea,
Tranzac, Irene’s, Downstairs Club… shows…
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I live on the outer reaches of Parkdale.
I spent much of my many childhood visits to
Toronto in Parkdale, where my aunt lived (above the Home Hardware on Queen)
for many years, among other Parkdale locales… She worked in multiple antique
stores along the strip… Margie was a true old—school Parkdale denizen.
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Raha
Javanfar
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I was born in Tehran, grew up in Toronto.
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When I did my thesis at theatre school and played a set
of original music using my piano, violin, vocals, and loop station and did
the lighting design for the entire thing that included over 400 cues in 20
mins and a whole bunch of haze in the air. That was fun.
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I saw a band in St Louis and I have no idea what the name
of the band or the venue was but I was so blown away and I can distinctly
remember the singer's face and her voice but that's about it!
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I lived on Tyndall Ave for a
couple of years
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Jocelyn
Barth
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Toronto
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Playing with my trio (Dave Restivo & Artie Roth) at
The Jazz Room in Waterloo on June 16th, 2018
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Private concerts of my mum practicing at home when I was
a kid.
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There was a beautiful photograph of Elizabeth at Jaymz
Bee's old loft that I noticed every time I was there. That's my only
connection.
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Denielle Bassels
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Toronto.
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Upstairs, in Montreal with Drew Jurecka and Andy Mac
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James Brown at Ontario Place.
He was old but he could still move!
As an adult my favourite concert was Elise Legrow
at the Orbit Room!
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“Parkdale" is a beautiful homage to a part of town
that I am so familiar with. Hearing Elizabeth Shepherd struck me in a whole
new way. Never since Nina Simone have I seen a woman in Jazz so masterful in
their compositions. Her rhythms and harmonies are complex without feeling
contrived and her compositions are all at once intelligent, raw, and
transparent. Her voice is ethereal yet approachable, she speaks to you. For
me, I hear that it is alright to be vulnerable and masterful at once. She
brings a whole new light to being a female in jazz today.
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5:00 Going Forth / After Danforth
Jeff Beck ~ Superstition ~ Beckology ll ~ @ Budweiser Stage Wednesday 1 August / Tribute to Stevie Wonder @ Woodbine Park tonight
