Uma Nota's annual multi-day event returns for a fifth year with another rich weekend of live music, DJs, art, food and drink, dancing and other diversions. This year’s festival, which continues Uma Nota’s Pan Am Jam series, features a mix of visiting and local artists and acts, with a music lineup that keeps Brazil in the mix, as always, but encompasses a range of tropical styles. The Saturday Jamboree (Oct.17th) at warehouse cultural space Geary Lane features two live bands representing between them music from Brazil, Haiti and various parts of Latin America, alongside two of the city’s top selectors holding down the reggae, dub, MPB and vintage vinyl on all 15,000 watts of the mighty Dub Connection Soundsystem. Then on Sunday, the afternoon-into-evening Community Cultural Fair (Oct. 18) at Lula Lounge brings back the popular family-friendly format, with visiting and Toronto-based Brazilian artists, live bands from the local groove scene, special guest DJs and lots of lively action, including a dance workshop and, new for 2015, a live painting session with two artists creating a piece to be raffled off in the evening.

October 17th

Saturday Jamboree
Saturday, Oct. 17
Geary Lane, 360 Geary Ave.
Doors 9:30 p.m.
$10 advance online/$15 at the door

Featuring:
Vox Sambou (Montreal/Haiti)
T Dot Sound Crew ft. Lady Son
Selector K Zar Dubwise
DJ General Eclectic

Plus:
15,000 watt soundsystem by Dub Connection
Décor by Pleasurecraft featuring projected visuals in collaboration with VJ Notívago
Food vendors to be announced
Cash bar in effect


October 18th

Community Cultural Fair
Sunday, Oct. 18th
Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. W.
Doors 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.
$10 advance online and at the door. Children under 12 free

Featuring:
Lenis Rino (Brazil)
YUKA
The Responsables
Aline Morales
Tupi Collective DJs (Montreal)
DJ Erick Paredes (Miami)
Coco de Roda circle dance game with members of Maracatu Mar Aberto and Baque de Bamba
Live Painting by Zara Diniz and Carlos Delgado

PLUS
Artist & vendor marketplace
Mini Ping Pong by VanGrey
Craft table and kids’ activities by Pleasurecraft
Raffle for the art created during the live painting
Special site animator surprises