Going back
to the roots

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singer-songwriter;

@ Ensemble Tartit — six
women and two men from
the sub-Saharan Africa;

@ La Bottine Souriante — a
super-heated band best heard
live; from Quebec complete
with a sizzling horn section;
B Lullabye Baxter Trio —
Montreal songstress Angelina
Tapaulo is an original with a
major-label breakthrough,
Capable Eqg, on Atiantic
Records;

1 Musafir — from the ma-
kets in Rajasthan by way of
Belgium, 14 musicians,
singers, dancers and glass-
walkers;

@ Mediaeval Babes — 12, 20-
somethings parading olde
worlde vocal charms.

Easily one of the most
exotic acts to be showcased
will be Ensemble Tartit.
Simpson was among a group
of festival artistic directors
attending a music and dance
conference in Abidjan (Ivory
Coast) about three-and-a-half
years ago when he first spot-

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@ Jacksoul, DJ Spooky and The New
Deal at the Commodore, June 27, du
Maurier International Jazz Festival.

The New Deal were the highlight of the
jazz fest for me. The band is a three piece
improv collective, drumming up some stellar
rhythms, crisp and clean snare with a high-
end crack. Clearly The New Deal have a solid

ted the act.

“It’s absolutely unlike any-
thing any of us had ever
heard before — the singing
style, the rhythms, it just kind
of makes you mental, working
on something at the back of
your brain — logic has got
nothing to do with it except
in as much as it’s bouncing
off what you're used to in
regular four-four, regular
melodic progressions.

“This was one of those
musics that just hit none of
the existing slots in the
brain,” he says. Tie appear-
ance at the festival is a

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my taste.

Vancouver first.

The Mediaeval Babes have
played Vancouver before, but
this weekend’s workshops in
the park will be their first
taste of the festival.

Says Simpson, “One of the
things when we were thinking
about the millennial festival,
the first one of the next thou-
sands years, we said let’s take
everything back to the roots
and that brings up the idea of
the human voice, the first
instrument. ~

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— Sprout

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