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Volume 16, Issue 24, Week of June 19, 2017
Jazz Festival
Powerful female singers lead lineup
Amanda Marshall will perform on opening night at the SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival. (Photo Supplied)
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evin Tobin, artistic director of the SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival, admits a festival’s shopping list can take some interesting twists and turns, even month by month. So you can imagine how happy Tobin was when he acquired three Canadian song stylists, Amanda Marshall, Serena Ryder and Feist, as headliners at the TD Mainstage at the Delta BessPeople borough Gardens for the 31st annual festival running June 23 to July 2. “Most of the time, we have a long-running wish list and it changes because we are competing against national and international markets for the best we can find,” says Tobin, who has been on the Saskatoon festival scene since 2000. “Sometimes our geographical location presents a challenge. Winnipeg’s festival ends as we are starting. Edmonton is straightahead jazz. Calgary no longer has a festival. Vancouver is inundated with jazz acts year-round. Eastern festivals do their own buying. In the end, our festival is situated like it’s on an island, but we’re built on diversity and it has been for the last 10 years.” Marshall will be the headliner on opening night. “She’s an artist who hasn’t been to our festival before but she’s been on the radar screen for a long time. She is a real Canadian powerhouse.” Marshall comes from a soft rock background, gritty and soulful, and was inspired to enter music after going to a concert by guitarist Jeff Healey in Toronto one night. Healey gave her a shot on an open microphone and she’s never looked back. She was the second of the mainstage artists to sell out. Ryder has appeared before. She comes with considerable acclaim, having won Juno awards as best artist and best songwriter in 2014, the year they were held in Calgary. She comes west with a new album, Utopia, and good mileage out of a single, Electric Love. She appears June 24. Feist headlines on June 30, and is introducing a new album, Pleasure. The singer-guitarist has won five Junos, and continues to build momentum. For diversity, Tobin couldn’t have done any better than acquire Brent Kissel, country music’s artist of the year. He performs here on June 25. “We’ve formed a good working relationship with the Canadian Country Music Association, which allows us to have some flexibility in our scheduling. It is a good partnership. Not only did he accept our offer but he was so excited about it. And it is all about building a festival atmosphere.” Other headliners are Walk Off The Earth (June 27) the quickest act to nail down a 3,500-person sell-out this year, Ziggy Marley (June 28), Michael Franti (June 29) and Arrested Development (July 1). The Broadway Theatre will be the site of six shows, including one by The Blind Boys of Alabama, which sold out its June 24 date by the first week in May. (Continued on page 12)
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