Presented by Coastal Jazz Festival in association with Vancouver New Music

Thursday, June 29, 2023 | 9pm

Red Gate Revue Stage (1601 Johnston Street) [map]
Tickets $25 + service fees. Available from Coastal Jazz.

Farida Amadou (Belgium) and White People Killed Them (US) meet at the intersection of performance and politics. With scathing electronics, turbulent guitar, enveloping bass sonorities, and power-clatter drumming, this first-time convergence encourages surprise inventions, calamities and celebrations, and the erecting and defending of democratic spaces (beyond the limits of the bandstand).

Join Raven Chacon, John Dieterich and Marshall Trammell on June 30 for a free workshop. Details below.

About the artists

Bassist Farida Amadou has worked with a dizzying array of musical thinkers, from legends like Thurston Moore, Linda Sharrock, and Ken Vandermark, to European contemporaries Jasper Stadhouders, Onno Govaert, and Eve Risser.

The first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize for music, Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. John Dieterich is best known as a guitarist in the innovative noise pop(-ish) group Deerhoof. Marshall Trammell (Black Spirituals) is an experimental percussionist and designer of interculturally-situated, arts-driven social engagement interventions.

This show is part of Coastal Jazz’s Granville Island Jazz series.

Presented by Western Front and Coastal Jazz Festival in association with Vancouver New Music

Free Workshop with Raven Chacon, John Dieterich and Marshall Trammell

June 30, 2023 | 3pm

Western Front (303 E. 8th Avenue) [map]
Free – no registration required

The Vancouver International Jazz Festival offers free workshops and lectures for jazz fans and musicians to learn firsthand from some of the festival’s local and international performers.

The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) hosts an annual gathering of artists, academics and community members focused on the transformative work of the improvisational arts. In association with Coastal Jazz and Western Front, this year’s iteration Improvising Futures, invites diverse cultural perspectives into conversation through workshops and discussions.

On June 30 join Pulitzer Prize-winning interdisciplinary artist Raven Chacon, inventive guitarist John Dieterich of Deerhoof, and percussionist/Music Research Strategist Marshall Trammell, moderated by Vancouver New Music Artistic Director Giorgio Magnanensi. 

This workshop is free and open to all. Please note that Western Front is not wheelchair accessible.

Top photo: Farida Amadou, John Dieterich, Raven Chacon, Marshall Trammell.