Mark DeJong wants to share his passion for jazz with everyone, and he knows just how to do it: with a celebration. “We’re recognizing the importance of an artform that brings people together.”
The Brothers Arntzen Brass Band is Bassment bound. The New Orleans style quartet will be making their way to Saskatoon on Tuesday, April 23. I caught up with them on the phone Friday afternoon as they pulled into Yorkton.
The 2013 Prairie Brass Band Festival kicks off this weekend at the Third Avenue United Church on April 19 and 20. This is one concert series that is guaranteed to blow. I mean that in the best possible way.
I don’t know how this guy fits upwards of 233 songs in his brain and can conjure them up on demand, but he does. He’ll play any song requested from the the list below at his Live by Request show the Bassment. Dude doesn’t even use sheet music.
An interview with local artist Aaron Adair, whose album release concert this Friday will be part 1960s cocktail party and part 1968 Elvis comeback special, all reimagined in a soulful modern performance right here in Saskatoon.
