Time: 12 - 5 p.m.

Cover: none

Jazz, blues and lots of fun for all ages all afternoon We have a great line up of artist for Jazz in the Park including Hippodrome, Sandwich, Kat Danser, Sue Foley, Papa King and Groove Apostles and Junior Jam. Come out and enjoy the sun, live Jazz Music, the Beer Garden and lots of vendors. This event is sponsored by Heart of Our City Initiatives 

Hippodrome: https://www.facebook.com/groups/7297823782/

Funk, soul, disco, rhythm and blues, blues and even some jazz are part and parcel of the repertoire of Lethbridge’s premier “rhythm and groove” band, Hippodrome. A rock solid rhythm section, coupled with a dynamite horn section, all backing a frontline of fantastic vocalists make this 11 piece group a truly exciting experience for any music lover. 

Sandwich Quartet

Arlen Wutch
Paul Holden
Ryan Heseltine
Kyle Harmon

Sandwich is a collection of musician that have played in many bands around Lethbridge and area for many years. Ryan Heseltine plays sax and percussion, Arlen Wutch play a mean guitar, Paul Holden will get your body moving with his phat low end thump staff, and Kyle Harmon plays drums'a'plenty. The opportunity to play together has created a freedom and some funky business that is based on mutual respect for each other and the audience. Sandwich is all about enjoying yourself and groovin' to the greasy sounds coming from the stage.

Groove Apostles http://grooveapostles.weebly.com

Vocalist:
Shelby Wilson

Band:
~Daniel Best -Bass
~Mathew Hellawell -Drums/ Vocals
~Vaughan Henning -Saxophone/ Guitar/ Vocals
~Daniel Yaretz -Keys/ Vocals

Breaking the boundaries of traditional jazz, the Groove Apostles (GA) creates a modern sound fusing jazz and funk with a defying performance.

The Groove Apostles from Lethbridge Alberta is a small Jazz Combo that specializes in Traditional Jazz, Funk, and Contemporary Jazz music.

The band's classical background merges the sophistication of a Jazz Standard with the intensity and heart of a Soul tune. The band consists of five members that include a drummer, bassist, guitarist, pianist, and saxophonist. Each member performs their instruments with high level capability and musical expression that manifests energy, playfulness and creativity.

The Groove Apostles perform their own compositions as well as featuring guest artists. They perform for dinners, parties, weddings, and main event concerts. 

Kat Danser www.KatDanser.com

Kat Danser’s music navigates a paddle steamer from the muddy banks of the Mississippi Delta downriver toward a big ol’ full moon over New Orleans. Dubbed ‘Queen of the Swamp Blues’, this Edmonton-based guitar slinger, songsmith, and blazing vocalist channels the spirit of roots, blues and gospel music pioneers. Her fourth album, Baptized by the Mud, is a collaboration between Danser and Juno-award winning producer Steve Dawson. The recording addresses the dichotomy of ‘church-blues’: blues music as devilish and church music as angelic.

This sub-genre demonstrates that human truth and the divine are one in the same – “one is preached from behind the pulpit and the other from behind the plow”.

This CD (distributed by Outside Music) is the summation of years of study, mentorship, and songwriting with legendary blues icons in Mississippi- birthplace of the blues- and her graduate studies at the U of A, where Danser focused her Masters thesis on the representation of blues music over the past century. A national touring and award-winning artist, Danser has performed at the 25th Anniversary of Canadian Women in Blues at Massey Hall in Toronto, the Calgary International Blues Festival, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Edmonton Folk Music Festival, Calgary Folk Festival, Vancouver Folk Festival, Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival, Folk on the Rocks Festival in Yellowknife, Regina Folk Festival, Saskatoon Blues Festival, Lethbridge Jazz Festival, Vancouver Island MusicFest, The Winspear Centre’s ‘Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts’, Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival, Harmony Bazaar Festival, Mountainview Music Festival, Islands Music Festival and the Winter Roots & Blues Festival. Media reviews and interviews have occurred with CBC Radio, Global TV, Halifax Chronicle, FYI Music, Vancouver Georgia Straight, Edmonton Journal, CKUA Radio, Winnipeg Free Press, CTV, Edmonton Sun, Toronto Blues Society, Blues Matters!, Penguin Eggs; with highlights being featured by CTV’s Alberta Primetime, co-hosting an edition of Natch’l Blues on CKUA with Holger Petersen, Penguin Eggs and completing a short documentary film entitled Rails & Rivers: Searching for the Heart of the Blues. Her accolades of late have been many.

Danser recently won the Ambassador of the Blues Award (Blues Underground Network), International Blues Competition Semi-Finalist Best Independent Blues Album, Top 5 Albums of 2014 (Blues Underground Network), her third Western Canadian Music Award – Spiritual Recording of the Year nomination, Top 11 Albums of 2013 (CBC Radio) and The Maple Blues Award – Best New Artist of the Year nomination. Danser is also a nationally award winning scholar and has presented at conferences throughout North America.

She holds a Masters in Musicology from the University of Alberta and has completed her PhD coursework toward a full doctorate in Musicology specializing in blues and roots music in the American South. She combines her performance and education skills to assist community building through the arts. Toward that end, Danser is the Artist in Residence at the EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts (Calgary), facilitates music and healing at the U-School Program for Marginalized Youth, Foothills Youth Psychiatric School, and instructs her own Music Education Program from elementary schools to adult instructional camps. Danser’s primary goal is to use music as a space for personal exploration and as a method to strengthen communities.

Papa King and the Boogie Machine

Papa King is a local blues musician who plays with  lead guitarist Scott Mezei, bassist Doug Freeman and drummer Dan Praveen

Sue Foley band http://suefoley.com/

Sue Foley is a multi-award winning musician and of the one of the finest blues and roots artists working today. Foley spent her early childhood in Canada, mesmerized by her father’s guitar and started her professional career at sixteen. By twenty-one, she was living in Austin, TX and recording for Antone’s—the esteemed blues record label and historic nightclub that helped launch the career of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Foley’s first release, Young Girl Blues, quickly rooted her unique talents as a proficient blues guitarist/singer/songwriter and launched her out on the road—working and sharing the stage with greats such as BB King, Buddy Guy, Joe Cocker and Tom Petty. In 2001, she won the prestigious Juno Award (Canadian equivalent of the Grammy) for her CD, Love Coming Down. Foley also holds the record for the most Maple Blues Awards (seventeen) and has earned three Trophees de Blues de France. She has also garnered several nominations at the International Blues Music Awards in Memphis, TN.

Foley is an accomplished and award winning songwriter. Her music has been featured in the major motion picture You Can Count On Me and she also contributed the theme song, “Two Trains,” for the internationally syndicated television series Just Cause. She has been featured numerous times in major print publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The National Post, Downbeat and Mojo Magazine, and has performed and been featured on nationally syndicated radio shows: House Of Blues, Sirius-XM’s BB King’s Bluesville, CBC’s Saturday Night Blues, NPR’s Mountainstage, West Coast Live, Kentucky Woodsongs and Beale Street Caravan.

In 2001 Foley started a project called Guitar Woman based around dozens of interviews she conducted with the world’s leading female guitarists. For eight years she wrote articles, organized and promoted concerts, and worked on a book—fueling her passion for gender studies in music and her desire to bring the work of great women guitar players to light. The Guitar Woman project entered a period of dormancy from 2009-2015 while Foley pursued several musical collaborations and returned to university to get her graduate’s degree.

When she’s not recording or performing internationally, Foley is a Professor of Music. Her specialty is teaching courses related to the roots of American music, creativity, musician entrepreneurship, and empowering women musicians. In her spare time, she studies the cello, reads voraciously, continues to work on Guitar Woman and is planning on pursuing her PhD.

Look for Sue Foley’s new CD to be released in fall 2016