"The One Eyed Troll" - Saturday 3:20 pm & Sunday 1:45 pm

Performances

• Saturday, September 14th @ 3:20 pm
  Family Fun Zone (Behind “The Hall”) | 91 St & 118 Ave

• Sunday, September 15th @ 1:45 pm
  Family Fun Zone (Behind “The Hall”) | 91 St & 118 Ave

Pangaea Arts and The Trollsons present The One-Eyed Troll, a story based on a Scandinavian folktale about an evil troll that has taken over the forest. Everyone is terrified, but a young boy out looking for some firewood just might have a solution.

The 30-minute storytelling show features two storytellers (without masks) that bring these unique and comedic tales to life with music, physical comedy, and improvisation. Audience members get swept into the action and become a part of the unique storytelling style.

Pangaea Arts is an intercultural, interdisciplinary world arts organization based in Vancouver. Pangaea Arts was formed to promote cultural interaction and the exchange of ideas between diverse communities and to introduce Canadian audiences to performance traditions from around the world. Pangaea Arts creates productions that educate by participation, encouraging audiences and artists to actively investigate different cultures and ideas.

Kaleido Family Arts Festival is a free festival, donations are gratefully accepted.

Dan Davis Trio - Friday 7 pm

Dan Davis Trio

Friday, September 13th @ 7:00 pm
Jazz Alley | Alley Between 93 & 94 St

Dan Davis is a saxophonist and educator from Edmonton AB. He completed his Masters in Jazz Studies at the University of South Florida in 2009.

The Writers’ Guild, a new music composition collective he co-leads received a WCMA nomination for their record “Based on a True Story.” In 2015 Dan’s composition “What Happens Next” received an Edmonton Music Award for Best Jazz Recording.

Dan has been fortunate enough to perform with P.J. Perry, Tommy Banks, Jim Head, Joel Gray, Juno winners Mike Murley and Kevin Turcotte, Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne, the Yardbird Suite Jazz Orchestra, the Edmonton Jazz Orchestra, and the Glen Miller Orchestra. Dan’s latest project sees him bringing the Baritone Saxophone to the front of the stage. This is the saxophone Dan started on back in 8th grade and is the instrument that allows him to speak most truly with his musical voice.

His music is inspired by the sweet-sounding Harry Carney and Gerry Mulligan, as well as the brash and sassy sounding Ronnie Cubert and Garry Smullian. Currently, Dan is an instructor at MacEwan University and the MacEwan Conservatory of Music at Alberta College. He gives masterclasses and performances around his home province of Alberta and across Western Canada.

Kaleido Family Arts Festival is a free festival, donations are gratefully accepted.

Hail Taxi - Sunday 5 pm

Hail Taxi

Hail Taxi Edmonton, Alberta Hailing from the landscapes of Edmonton, Alberta Canada comes a humble story of a solo singer/songwriter and performer - Nathaniel Sutton. While predominantly delivering folk-based indie-rock, you'll discover deeper splashes of alt-country, pop and EDM sensibilities with eclectic influences that parallel elements from artists like Folk Implosion and Beck.

Sunday, September 15th @ 5:00 pm
Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse | 9351 - 118 Ave

Hailing from the landscapes of Edmonton, Alberta Canada comes the solo singer / songwriter & performer Nathaniel Sutton (known as Hail Taxi). While delivering mostly Folk-based Indie-rock, you'll find splashes of dynamic Alt/Country, pop and even EDM sensibilities with eclectic influences that parallel elements from other artist-greats like Folk Implosion and Beck.

Kaleido Family Arts Festival is a free festival, donations are gratefully accepted.

Dwennimmen - Saturday 9:45 pm & Sunday 12 pm

Dwennimmen

Performances

• Saturday, September 14th @ 9:45 pm
  Avenue Central Stage | 93 St & 118 Ave

• Sunday, September 15th @ 12:00 pm
  Jazz Alley | Alley Between 93 & 94 St

Shima Aisha Robinson works for APIRG on the University of Alberta campus as the Programming and Working Group Coordinator. She advances her enthusiasm for anti-oppression work by volunteering, interning and working with local groups that address systemic issues of oppression and marginalization in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (aka Edmonton). She is an amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Edmonton)-born poet and spoken word artist who embodies, with every poem, the ancient meaning of her chosen pen name. Dwennimmen is the name of an ancient African Adinkra symbol, which means strength, humility, learning and wisdom. It is no surprise, then, that this veteran of the Alberta poetry community uses a searing intellect and dynamic precision-of-language to create poetry which ushers her readers and listeners toward greater understanding and poignant reflection.

For Dwennimmen, poetry has long been a compass, a salve, an anchor and guiding light. She uses the potential and force of poetry to uncover the full range of her cerebral, linguistic and spiritual fortitude. This is why her every poem and performance testifies to an emerging power and wisdom, an authentic, deeply human potency which she hopes to pass on to listeners and poetry-lovers around the world.

Kaleido Family Arts Festival is a free festival, donations are gratefully accepted

Two Late to the Party - Sunday 12:00 pm and 1:45 pm

Two Late to the Party

Performances

• Sunday, September 15th @ 12:00 pm
  Kaleido Yurt | 92 St & 118 Ave

• Sunday, September 15th @ 1:45 pm
  Avenue Central Stage | 93 St & 118 Ave

Two Late to the Party are Adam Corkett and Alessandra Enns. This budding musical duo formed in the fall of 2017. Both Adam and Alessandra have a long singer/songwriter history, with influences ranging from indie-folk to bluegrass-country. As a pair, they have found a style that merges their past influences, creating an original sound that is simultaneously current and nostalgic.

Kaleido Family Arts Festival is a free festival, donations are gratefully accepted.

Dragon Fli Empire - Sunday 3:15 pm and 5 pm

Dragon Fli Empire

Performances

• Sunday, September 15th @ 3:15 pm
  Rhythm Speaks Hip Hop | 90 St & 118 Ave

• Sunday, September 15th @ 5:00 pm
  Avenue Central Stage | 93 St & 118 Ave

It was a song in 2002 about a bus route that brought Calgary hip hop duo Dragon Fli Empire out of the basement and into the limelight. Now a decade post "Mount Pleasant,” they have become a leading force in the city's hip hop scene, from opening for names like De La Soul, The Roots, Public Enemy and Mos Def to performing at festivals like the Calgary Folk Fest, Sled Island, Warped Tour, Shambhala and Rock the Bells. They were nominated for Best Hip Hop Album at the 2009 Western Canadian Music Awards and have toured through Canada, the United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway and Switzerland. The DFE have released music independently as well as through labels in Canada, Japan, France and Finland. The crew most recently released a 7" vinyl 'Hold Down the Fort' via Radio Krimi Records (France) in Spring 2018 that reached #2 on the CBC Radio 3 Top 30 chart. A new EP is planned to be released in Fall 2019.

Kaleido Family Arts Festival is a free festival, donations are gratefully accepted.

Cirque Kalabanté Productions Headlining on Saturday Night

Performances

• Saturday, September 14th @ 3:30 pm
  Avenue Central Stage | 93 St & 118 Ave

• Saturday, September 14th @ 7 pm (Headliner Show)
  In the Hall | 9210 - 118 Ave

“Cirque Kalabanté Productions (Guinea/Québec) brings explosive drumming, dance routines, and bold acrobatics that display a range of African arts. With a non-stop, dizzying pace, the group delivers mind-blowing acrobatic sequences with extraordinary precision, made all the more dramatic by hypnotic percussion.” Sharonne Cohen, Montreal’s Festival International Nuits d’Afrique.

Multidisciplinary artist who started his circus training with the Guinean troupe Circus Baobab, Yamoussa Bangoura began his professional career joining the African and European tour of the show "La légende du singe tambourinaire."

After being spotted in Spain during one of the tours of the Cirque Éloize, he was recruited to be one of the creators and acrobats of the world tour of the show Nomade, from 2002 to 2007. Then, he joined in 2010 the equestrian company Cavalia for the creation of the show Odysséo and toured with them until 2012 before he could now focus on the projects of his own company Productions Kalabanté.

Kaleido Family Arts Festival is a free festival, donations are gratefully accepted.

Aurora Lantern Parade - Starts at The Carrot!

Party on the Street & Aurora Lantern Parade 

Friday 9:30 pm

Before kicking off the Aurora Lantern Parade, Klusterfunk (8:00 pm)will launch the party and get you groovin’! Join the lantern parade, performers and festival-goers as we dance, sing, drum and laugh together. Follow the light to My Son the Hurricane, as they kickoff the festival with their unique mix of New Orleans style grooves with funk, jazz and hip hop on the Avenue Central Stage.

Forgot your lantern? Create one with your friends and family at the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts (9225 – 118 Ave). Open 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm. Or become an audience member as the street gets its rhythm and awakens.