Ottawa, Canada (Top40 Charts/ People Project PR) - Ottawa / Mexico City collective People Project unites for the summer of 2007 with performances across Eastern Canada. The group will play the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Ottawa Jazz Festival on Canada Day, and the Halifax Atlantic Jazz Festival, among other dates.
People Project brings the divergent influences of blues and Latin together in a dynamic fusion of folk, funk and roots music. Brazilian rhythms meet the harmonic language of blues and jazz, featuring bossa style guitar, funk bass, and overlaid with sax, flute and blues-tinged vocals in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
With People Project the expression 'without borders' takes on full meaning. Based simultaneously in Ottawa and Mexico, the group works in two cells?Philippe Lafreni?re (2006 OCFF Songwriter Award Winner - Best Political Song and Best French Song) and Steven Patterson up north; Gabriel Bronfman and Maria Emilia Martinez down south. The group will be joined by 2006 Latin Grammy Award Winner Natalia Lafourcade for Canadian dates in late-June / early-July. Each cell recruits new musicians locally and performs in Canada and Mexico. Both of them compose Afro-Brazilian music with lyrics that are sung in four languages. Airplanes, the Internet and ubiquity do the rest!
People Project - 2007 Summer Tour Schedule:
Wednesday, June 20 - Blacksheep Inn - Wakefield, QC (w N. Lafourcade)
Wednesday, June 27 - Ottawa International Jazz Festival (w N. Lafourcade)
Friday, June 29 - Montreal International Jazz Festival (w. N. Lafourcade)
Sunday, July 1 - Ottawa International Jazz Festival (Canada Day)
Saturday, July 14 - Quebec City OFF Festival (with Souljazz Orchestra)
Thursday, July 19 - Quebec City
Friday, July 20 - Moncton (with Souljazz Orchestra)
Saturday, July 21 - Halifax Atlantic Jazz Festival (with Souljazz Orchestra)
Sunday, July 22 - The Capital - Fredericton
Thursday, July 26 - Mercury Lounge - Ottawa
Thursday, Aug 2 - Absynthe - Montreal
Friday, Aug 3 - Blue Skies Music Festival