Music for Climate Justice 6 is an online concert raising funds for Ubuntucc's community farming start up.
Ubuntu Community Collective is focused on serving women and children of the African diaspora. They curate creative and healing spaces that support well-being, restore balance and expand awareness.
https://www.ubuntucc.ca/
Music for Climate Justice is a series of concerts that began in May of 2019 to raise money for and awareness around urgent Climate Justice issues.
Music for Climate justice 6 features musicians who, in their own unique ways have been active in the Climate and Social Justice movements.
This show is Pay What You Can with a suggested donation of $20:
Everyone is welcome!
Donations to:
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Sign up for this event on eventbrite to get a reminder: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/157670784561
or just show up to our livestream at 7pm on Saturday June 5: https://youtu.be/6szTNyV1l-w
line-up includes:
Moonfruits https://moonfruits.ca/
Annabelle Chvostek with Suppajam: https://annabellemusic.com/
The Jempress: @thejempress instagram
www.facebook.com/thejempress
Diem LaFortune: https://horizondancer.com/
Fairy J: @jazfairyj
Tania Gill (solo): https://www.facebook.com/taniagillquartet/
Cassie Norton: https://www.cassienorton.com/
Silent Auction: On top of our fantastic lineup we will also be hosting an online live silent auction in the chat (maybe the first of it's kind?!?) at 8:30 mainly for services rather than goods. Auctioned services include a one month pass to Mysticseed Kundalini daily online yoga classes, a song written on a theme of your choice or dedicated to a person of your choice and more! Details coming soon.
Bios:
Fairy J is a multi-disciplinary artist and performer, choreographer, musician, intuitive healer, mentor and mother. She believes that art is a portal to the divine and in that she is in a constant investigation around how her work can create more space for healing.
Moonfruits: Fronted by partners Alex Millaire and Kaitlin Milroy, Ottawa-based Moonfruits are makers of art-folk bilingue. In a forest of banjo, guitar, kalimba and glockenspiel, their voices burrow and soar. Here is a reverie, tender and powerful, beckoning listeners to elevate the stuff of everyday life.
The duo is poised to release Salt, their deeply collaborative second a full-length record, one song a month starting in the summer of 2021.
DM Lafortune is a renaissance woman - actor, advocate, architect, chef, designer, educator, photographer, poet, essayist, singer, songwriter, musician, videographer, and visual artist. Smart and powerful, Lafortune can command any stage.
DM’s recent work includes: Orphans and The Other Little Things That Matter (a book of poetry/prose; My Grandfather’s Skin (part of the photographic project: Analogue Indigenous in a Digital World; a new album (vinyl); and several plays and performance pieces.
Suppajam is Jonas Spring, Desiree Marshall, Annabelle Chvostek, and Nigel Barriffe, and Ximena Griscti, a group of West Toronto parents who share a love of jamming in the park, eating good food, and working toward a better world.
Tania Gill is a pianist and composer who plays jazz, experimental and traditional music across several genres. She leads the Tania Gill Quartet with Lina Allemano (trumpet), Nico Dann (drums) and Rob Clutton (bass), who are currently mixing a new record.
Her last record, Bolger Station was nominated for best debut album in the Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll and was disc-of-the-week in the Globe and Mail.
Tania helped lead and organize music at climate strikes throughout 2019, she has been active with For Our Kids Toronto and is part of the working group building Music Declares Emergency Canada.
Cassie Norton is a Toronto based violinist/singer songwriter, improvisor and climate activist. She uses violin, octave violin and ukulele to express the dynamic emotional range present in her lyrics, from haunting and dark to fragile and playful. In addition to her work as a singer-songwriter she has travelled widely and performed as a side player with musicians from all over the world.
Cassie brings her passion for music to her activism through performance and song leading. In May of 2019 she founded Music for Climate Justice @musicforclimatejustice through which she runs a benefit show series for organizations such as ecojustice.ca, raventrust.com and more.