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The 2014 Southside Shuffle : preview

The 16th annual Port Credit Blues and Jazz Festival presented by Tim Hortons, kicks off this weekend with an amazing lineup! I’ve put together a small sampling of past performance pictures of some of my favorites that will be there. The festival consists of a few opening gala’s, the Trinity Street Shuffle which is a streetfest on Saturday afternoon, club shows and 4 main stages in Memorial Park.

by clicking each image, you will be opening up the gallery  from were the image was taken, enjoy the festival!

Paul James Vigna
Paul James has a set at 10pm on Saturday night on the Enersource Stage

Waterfront Blues Festival
Chuck Jackson, a founding father of the Southside Shuffle, performs and smoozes through the festival and finishes it off with the Legendary Downchild Blues band on Sunday at 6pm.

Andria Simone
Amazing and versatile vocalist Andria Simone performs with her band Those Guys Friday night and Sunday afternoon.

Jack De Keyzer
Jack de Keyser has a show at Roc’n Doc’s on Friday night, then a Saturday afternoon show in the park, Heath & Sherwood Stage.

Irene Torres
Irene Torres & the Sugar Devils hit the same stage right after Jack de Keyser on Saturday at 7pm, Heath & Sherwood Stage, Memorial Park.

Donnie Walsh
Mr. Downchild himself, Donnie Walsh finishes off the festival with Chuck on Sunday at 6pm, The Legendary Downchild Blues Band, Heath & Sherwood Stage, Memorial Park.

Al Lerman w/Fathead
Al Lerman performs a solo set Saturday afternoon, then will hustle to the next stage to perform with Fathead.

Tommy Fyfe & The Whisky River Blues Band
The Whiskey River Blues Band will be one of many acts performing Saturday afternoon in the Trinity Street Shuffle (held on Lakeshore Road)

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For all the details, schedule, location, cost etc. check out www.southsideshuffle.com

Toronto Jazz Festival images from June 21st, Lighthouse, Danny Marks, Happy Pals, Tyler Yarema

The first day of summer was a busy and beautiful day at the Toronto Jazz festival. I started at noon at Nathan Phillips Square were legendary Canadian fusion rock band Lighthouse brought us some of their classics hits and a few new ones too.

Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Then, I walked over to The Rex Jazz & Blues Bar for a pint and to catch Danny Marks’ entertaining set. Always a jokester this guy, applauding and thanking couples and people as they came thru the front door, made for a few laughs. This was apparently the last Saturday noon-time set he’ll be performing at the Rex until September, a little hiatus.

Danny Marks

Danny Marks

Danny playing Walk Don’t Run behind his back with fellow photog Jim Ziegler blockin my shot, haha

From here it was up to catch the afternoon set of long time Saturday matinee regulars The Happy Pals at Grossmans. These guys and gals are sure happy, good vibes. They put on a great set of New Orleans jazz and swing party tunes.

Happy Pals

Happy Pals

Happy Pals

Happy Pals

They finished up at around 8pm. Now since I wasn’t going to the David Clayton-Thomas show at NPS, I saw that another regular performer was playing at the Reservoir lounge. Tyler Yarema & his Rhythm have a been a weekly Saturday night fixture at the Reservoir since it’s early days.

Tyler Yarema & his Rhythm

Tyler Yarema & his Rhythm

Tyler Yarema & his Rhythm

Tyler Yarema & his Rhythm

This was an incredible day of music, I highly recommend getting out and experiencing what is the 2014 edition of the TD Toronto Jazz festival, running right thru til next Saturday. Stay tuned for my almost daily posts and new images.

 Toronto Jazz Festival 2014 Gallery