What Cheer? Brigade

The What Cheer? Brigade is a 19-piece brass band from Providence, RI, USA. Their sound is an aggressive mix of Bollywood, The Balkans, New Orleans, Samba and Hip-Hop, played with the intensity of metal. Requiring no amplification, they prove that great parties need no electricity.

“Thrillingly competent, with undimmable energy…an explosion of good cheer.”
-The New York Times

“They never actually took a stage, but Providence, RI’s What Cheer? dominated the Newport Folk Fest like a headliner.”
-SPIN

Since 2005, the band has been as likely to appear at community benefits as at all-night parties, playing bars, clubs, streets, libraries, cemeteries, weddings, bus stops, and playgrounds. In 2010, we joined Anchor Brain Records to re-release our second CD, We Blow, You Suck. We’ve played with Dan Deacon, Man Man, Japanther, Dengue Fever, Okkervil River, Lightning Bolt, Ninjasonik, Mika Miko, Wolf Parade, Matt and Kim, Slavic Soul Party, Javelin, Sage Francis, and Chain and the Gang. We’ve appeared at Lollapalooza, Sziget (Hungary), and Guca (Serbia), offering mobile, intense moments of outdoor revelry.
Awards: Best in Festival – Haizetara 2010 Street Music International Contest (Spain) Best Category-Defying Act – 2010 Providence Phoenix Best Music Poll Best New Band (Rhode Island) – 2010 Boston Phoenix 50 Bands, 50 States Best of Rhode Island – Rhode Island Monthly 2007 Awards […]

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Wesli Band

With their socially committed mix of roots, afrobeat and reggae, Haitian singer-songwriter Wesley Louissaint and fellow musicians of the Wesli Band, invite you into their vibrantly coloured and joyful universe. Afrobeat-inspired brass lines, solid drums and transcending vocals: a warm and energizing blend that will make people dance, move, clap – even whistle! […]

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Waterfront Toronto – Future Cities Talks

Hosted by Waterfront Toronto’s CEO William Fleissig, this series of talks will challenge festival-goers, culture-makers and urbanists to reimagine what it means to be a city builder. Leading voices such as Eb Zeidler (Zeidler Partnership Architects), Margie Zeidler (Urbanspace Property Group), Vass Bednar (Martin Prosperity Institute), Lisa Tziona Switkin (James Corner Field Operations), Karen Carter (Myseum of Toronto), Susan Blight (Ogimaa Mikana), Katerina Cizek (MIT Open Documentary Lab) will present radical new ideas for building future communities.

Reserve your free tickets at: https://infuturetalks.eventbrite.ca […]

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Wanmeng Zhou

Wendy has been performing a fusion of Chinese and Western music for the last 10 years in both Vancouver and Toronto. Now based in Toronto, she co-founded her band, Spire, to inspire new breakthrough in music fusion. […]

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Vuk Dragojevic

Vuk Dragojevic is a Serbian born interdisciplinary artist, photographer, and filmmaker based in Toronto. He holds a BFA from OCAD University and has shown work in festivals and exhibitions in Canada, Italy, England and France. […]

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Vtape – Program II

The future-oriented visions espoused in late Modern expositions, exhibitions, trade shows and fairs are not without considerable historical myopia. This screening serves to re-centre the historical blindness upon which modernism is built, seeing water as the medium through which ideas are made to flow, erode, and surge forth. Works by Saskia Holmkvist, Richard Fung, Shani Mootoo, Keesic Douglas and Vera Frenkel. […]

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Vtape – Program I

Merging science fiction and the recent past, the films in this program revisit the post-Expo 67 era of rapid change and technologically-mediated humanism, complicating idealisms and examining the potentials and shortcomings of the past’s visions of the future. Works by Susan Britton, Nina Levitt, Gillian Dykeman and Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen. […]

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Vox Sambou

Vox Sambou is originally from Limbé on the northern coast of Haiti but now lives in Montreal. He has been writing and performing music for over 10 years as an independent artist and as a founding member of Nomadic Massive. Vox has released 3 solo albums to this day. […]

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