Mar 27 Friday
GRAMMY®-nominated Latin Jazz All Female Powerhouse Group!
Four-time JUNO Award winner and two-time GRAMMY® nominee Jane Bunnett has spent her career blending intricate Afro-Cuban rhythms with contemporary jazz, introducing North American audiences to Cuban greats like Pedrito Martinez and Dafnis Prieto. Her latest project, Maqueque, is an all-female Cuban sextet that has taken the jazz world by storm. DownBeat raves that they deliver “a clave-induced set of Afro-Cuban, booty-shaking world jazz.”
May 15 Friday
A musical sensation formed in 2016 in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, The Hu quartet are the pioneers of the genre Hunnu Rock, with almost 900 million global streams to their name – and counting.
Formed in 1993 at the world-renowned Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, Apocalyptica began life as a loving, lo-fi nod to Metallica from four classically-trained musicians with no greater ambition than to explore their favourite band’s music with their chosen instrument.