[DUE TO PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERNS, MARCH 15, 2020, APRIL 24, 2020 WATCH IT BURN! EVENTS AND OUR 7TH ANNUAL SOMETHING ELSE! FESTIVAL (JUNE 18 – 21, 2020) ARE POSTPONED INDEFINITELY, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS IT WILL BE SAFE AND VIABLE TO RECONVENE. PLEASE CONTACT CEM@ZULAPRESENTS.ORG FOR REFUNDS AND EXCHANGES.

WE ARE BEGINNING TO PRESENT SOME OF THESE ARTISTS AND OTHERS AS WE MERGE OUR FESTIVAL & SERIES TOGETHER IN THE FALL, FIRST AT OUTDOOR VENUES THEN INDOOR ROOMS, WHEN/ IF FEASIBLE AND SAFE.

Keep well,
ZULA CREW]

**SOMETHING ELSE!**
**at the Bay**
Saturdays at 1 pm
September 12 through
October **17,** 2020

Let’s do this… some of our favourite Ontario artists will perform weekly at the Gazebo in Hamilton’s Bayfront Park, as part of our plans to make up for postponed festival and series events!

**Rob Clutton Trio**

**Oct. 17, 2020**

**The Archives of Eternity**

**Oct. 10, 2020**

**Not the Wind, Not the Flag + Donna Akrey’s Transistor**

**Oct. 3, 2020**

Imaginary Percussion Ensemble ++

Sep. 26, 2020

Fog Brass Band

Sep. 19, 2020

Triio

Sep. 12, 2020

We’re excited to bring back our Something Else! Series and parts of our postponed June Festival, featuring S. Ontario greats! These events will now be located outdoors and will be accessible at the Gazebo (Space Boob), at Bayfront Park (Hamilton)!

Our priority is keeping everyone safe as per city/ province guidelines …and common sense, so we’ve made sure to allow lots of space for you to join us with your bubble or on your own. Bring your own blanket and an usher will guide you to your very own spot on the lawn.

Maximum capacity 100, so be on time. All Zula crew and volunteers will be wearing masks. We advise you to wear masks and bring your own food and non-alcoholic beverages. Bottled water available onsite. Free admission, but we sure would appreciate donations, as these are costly productions.

Come on out and live a little…!

…and with kind financial support from:

Initial Lineup

Monday, March 2nd, 2020

Since its inception in 2014, Zula (Music & Arts Collective Hamilton) Presents’ Something Else! Festival has rapidly become a vital and important presence in the North American experimental music circuit. Its curious outlook is rooted in jazz, yet its reach continues to extend in a dizzying array of different directions, boasting energetic performances in intimate and unique settings, including unforeseen one-of-a-kind collaborations between major musical innovators. This year’s event takes place from June 18th to 21st at Rock On Locke (Church of St. John the Evangelist), Whitehern Garden, Hamilton Public Library, and the Art Gallery of Hamilton. And even though most acts have yet to be announced, the preliminary roster of its seventh edition already holds tremendous promise.

Pianist/ composer MATTHEW SHIPP is defined by defiantly unclassifiable approach, swerving gleefully between out-jazz, electronics, modern classical, and hip-hop. He’s played alongside everyone from David S. Ware to DJ Spooky, wayward rappers Anti-Pop Consortium to Roscoe Mitchell. He’ll be heard solo and with one of his most frequent collaborators, Brazilian saxophonist IVO PERELMAN, another player of restless reinvention who has worked alongside Paul Bley, Rashied Ali, Joanne Brackeen and Elton Dean (of the Soft Machine). His remarkable synergy with Shipp is documented across numerous recordings on the famed Leo imprint.

Hailing from rural Niger, LES FILLES DE ILLIGHADAD have risen to international prominence as some of the foremost ambassadors of Tuareg music worldwide. Founder Fatou Seidi Ghali is alleged to be the first professional female guitarist to have emerged from the cultural group. Since their 2016 self-titled debut on Sahel Sounds, they’ve continued to cultivate their own singular take on the Saharan guitar sound described “heavy, meditative, and tender” by the New Yorker’s Amanda Petrusich. We’re teaming up with fellow Hamiltonians Strangewaves to bring you this exciting co-presentation!

Chicago’s MARS WILLIAMS might be most visible as a member of the Psychedelic Furs, but his career as a saxophonist is a total anomaly, spanning recordings with Hal Russell on ECM to appearances with Ministry, a featured artist slot at fable free jazz institution the Moers festival, to Grammy nominations with Liquid Soul. His duo with Norwegian drummer TOLLEF ØSTVANG is suitably dynamic and peculiar, juxtaposing spacious sonic exploration with duo electricity that nods in the direction of Interstellar Space.

Canadian pianist EVE EGOYAN is one of the most celebrated interpreters of the music of living composers. Known for her collaborations with the composers spanning John Oswald to Linda Catlin Smith, Maria de Alvear to Michael Finnissy, her recording of the late Ann Southam’s Simple Lines of Enquiry garnered glowing appraisals from the Wire, Maclean’s, and the New Yorker’s Alex Ross, who listed among 10 Exceptional Recordings of 2009. She’ll be joining this year’s festival to offer a program that draws upon her fascinating and idiosyncratic repertoire.

Trumpeter Ellwood Epps’ TOGETHERNESS! is nothing short of a Montréal supergroup, offering bold uplifting renditions of repertoire by Abdullah Ibrahim, Dudu Pukwana, Don Cherry, and, among others, Epps himself. Featuring lauded saxophonist and musique actuelle innovator Jean Derome, Guelph Jazz Festival artistic director Scott Thomson (trombone), bassist Stéphane Diamantakiou and drummer Ivan Bamford (Land of Kush), collectively they steer their driving grooves in toward surprising destinations.

The singular and slyly virtuosic trumpeter NICOLE RAMPERSAUD was Everyseeker’s (fka OBEY Convention) inaugural composer-in-residence last year. Her keen textural imagination is a major part of outfits like Brodie West’s Eucalyptus and c_RL with Allison Cameron and Germaine Liu. BRASS KNUCKLE SANDWICH is her duo with brilliant keyboard colourist MARILYN LERNER, one of Canada’s most imaginative and eclectic performers. Lerner’s music was touted by the Penguin Guide to Jazz as demanding “a far wider hearing than it has so far received… Brilliant!”

Celebrated documentary filmmaker RON MANN (Grass, Altman, Comic Book Confidential) will also be in attendance to present a screening of his 1981 debut IMAGINE THE SOUND, the Holy Grail of improvised music on film, co-produced with saxophonist, writer, photographer, CODA editor BILL SMITH, who masterfully interviews the esteemed subjects, including creative music titans Bill Dixon, Paul Bley, Cecil Taylor and Archie Shepp!