Michael Occhipinti & The Sicilian Jazz Project

Michael Occhipinti's JUNO-nominated Sicilian Jazz Project with special guest award-winning songwriter and jazz singer Laura Campisi will perform a mix of songs in Italian, Sicilian and English.

The Sicilian Jazz Project has been dazzling audiences world-wide with its thrilling mix of Old World Sicilian folk and the New World sounds of electric guitars, global funk, chamber music, and jazz improvisation. Using music sung by Sicilian fishermen, miners, and folk musicians as a starting point, the music is like a trip on the Mediterranean that detours to Mali, Jamaica, New Orleans, and Toronto. The Sicilian Jazz Project features some of the best musicians from Toronto's vibrant music scene as well as a variety of international guests. The group uses Sicilian folk music as a starting point, but then takes off as a vehicle for improvisation and ambitious arrangements across multiple styles. Michael wanted the Sicilian Jazz Project to reflect the diversity of modern Canada, and the result is a group like no other.

With support from the Sicilian Cultural Society of Canada.

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