First Gen (Scott Snider)

Saturday • 3:00 pm

Jazz Alley | (Alley) 93 St & 118 Ave (Southside of 118)

First Gen is a jazz rap band based out of Edmonton, Alberta. Fronted by Scott Snider aka Gr8Skawt, the band is a passion project built to push the first-generation immigrant experiences through improvisatory jams and lyrics celebrating where the members came from, their families, and the pop culture they gravitated to. Heavily influenced by the hip hop heavyweights MF DOOM, Nujabes, Dumbfoundead, Denzel Curry and the member's jazz backgrounds, every show is a voyage as the band aims to complete its mission of making waves from overseas.

Jeremiah McDade

Saturday • 2:00 pm

Jazz Alley | (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

Jacob Rabuka Duo

Jacob Rabuka

Morgan Hanna

Saturday • 12:00 pm

Jazz Alley | (Alley) 93 St & 118 Ave (Southside of 118)

The Jacob Rabuka Duo is a sax-guitar pair composed of local musicians Jacob Rabuka and Morgan Hanna. Both are recent graduates of the MacEwan Music program and play a variety of music ranging from RnB to modern jazz. They aspire to bring a fresh take to the jazz genre with their melodic playing, unique compositions, and arrangements.

Socials
Instagram: jacob.rabuka
Facebook: Jacob Rabuka
Tik Tok: jacobrabuka

Audrey Ochoa

Friday • 7:45 pm | Sunday • 5:00 pm

Jazz Alley | (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/

Zack Lim

Friday • 7:00 pm | Jazz Alley ((Alley) 93 St & 118 Ave (Southside of 118))

Saturday • 2:00 pm & 5:00 pm | Sunday • 3:00 pm & 5:00 pm | The Nina Gallery (9225 118 Ave)

Joined with Biboye Onanuga on drums, Zack Lim explores the modern applications of organ duo, performing standards and originals. Zack creates his sound from his understanding of a variety of genres, and hopes to spark musical joy and curiosity in his audience.

Socials
Insta: @zack.lim

Lori Reid

Sunday • 5:00 pm

The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse

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.

Kaeley Jade

Sunday • 3:00 pm

The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse

Kaeley Jade is a Métis singer/songwriter, actor, and multidisciplinary artist based in Edmonton, Alberta (amiskwaciwâskahikan). Blending lush imagery and hooky melodic lines to create her own brand of pop-forward indie folk music, Kaeley Jade has performed at venues and festivals across Canada. Past performances include BreakOut West, Coldsnap, JUNOfest, NXNE, and the Tkaronto Music Festival, and has shared the stage with Digging Roots, Preston Pablo, Delhi 2 Dublin, The Rural Alberta Advantage, and Grammy-winner Bill “Birdsong” Miller. Kaeley moves between ballads and bops with ease, and she brings an electricity to the stage whether she is playing an intimate acoustic set or playing alongside her full five-piece band. In 2022, Kaeley joined forces with award-winning playwright Trevor Schmidt to create the critically acclaimed country-folk musical Two-Headed/Half-Hearted, which premiered at Northern Light Theatre with Kaeley in the role of “Venus”. A Western Canadian Music Award Nominee and Summer Solstice Indigenous Music Award Winner, Kaeley’s artistry has also been recognized on a national level with an Honourable Mention in the 2023 SOCAN Indigenous Songwriter Awards. Reminiscent of artists like Maggie Rogers and Vance Joy, her debut full-length album, Turpentine, is available now.

Socials
Website: https://kaeleyjade.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kaeleyjademusic
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaeley_jade/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/KaeleyJade
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kaeley_Jade
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kaeley_jade?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

Melafrique

Sunday • 1:00 pm

The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse

Melafrique is an Afro-fusion band formed in Edmonton, Canada in 2016. The name Melafrique is a condensed form of the term "Melanin from Africa". They play a variety of genres: Soul, R&B, Reggae, Pop, Jazz, Neo-soul; in combination with different African styles of music. Melafrique hopes to inspire the world with good music. Through music, they express their identities as African people, as Caribbean people , as musicians, and as Edmontonians. The band includes members from Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Angola, Jamaica, and Canada.

The members include:
Trae Chisolm-Lyn on Drums
Dominic Reynolds on Percussion
Nathan Hackett on Keyboards
Enoch Attey on Guitar
Aristoteles Canga on Keyboards
Riwo Egor on Lead Vocals
Leshan Masikonte on Bass

Socials
Instagram: @melafrique_
TikTok: @melafrique band