Fresia and The Offsprings Beckwith, NS Fresia and the Offsprings are a Nova Scotia based family music trio consisting of Samuel Fresia (age 14) on percussion and vocals, Charlotte Fresia (age 12) keyboards, marimba and vocals and Eric Fresia on classical guitar and vocals. The trio performs a collection of originals and classics mixing blues,…
Ganga Giri Melbourne, Australia Ganga Giri mixes red natural elements with fat tribal beats and dirty funky bass lines to create a unique tribal-technological deep earth dance experience. Explosive and pulsating, at times ambient and flowing, the music is a pumping percussive multi-layered experience of complex grooves and raw, deep natural sound. Ganga himself is…
Gobble Gobble Edmonton, AB Gobble Gobble is a vulture of the spirit, tearing away at the carrion of the soul. Gobble Gobble lives on the faultline between suits and destitutes, and it is from this isolated perch, impelled by the terror of a dayjob and utterly prostrate beneath the looming monolith of abstracted death, that…
English Words Charlottetown, PEI On January 15, 2010, surrounded by a typically packed hometown crowd, Charlottetown, PEI band Smothered In Hugs made a liberating on-stage announcement: they were changing their name to English Words. Accompanying this proclamation was a brand new four-song EP, which the band personally handed out for free to each fan in…
Farbsie Toronto, ON DJ Farbsie, founder of the Make It Funky Collective got deep into funk at Mo’ Gravy in london in 1996 prior to that his musical influences were formed in the jam band scene traveling to over 400 shows across North America. Having collected thousands of records over the years in 2000 He…
Five Alarm Funk Vancouver, BC Five Alarm Funk is Vancouver’s own 11-piece Afrobeat-Funk-Jazz Orchestra. Since 2003, the band has brought their relentless grooves to clubs and many major festivals across Western Canada and are always asked to keep coming back. Intense horn lines and percolating Afro-Beat guitar combined with the interplay of four percussionists creates…