Samba Squad
TD Sunfest Craft Beer Shade GardenThe musical roots of Afro-Brazil, Afro-Cuba, North and West Africa, as well as elements of urban funk and hip-hop, are dropped into a seething cauldron to produce a dance-till-you-drop tour of global grooves.
Moskitto Bar
Jazz Village North StageMoskitto Bar creates a fresh and beautiful sound through its original mix of Ukrainian, Balkan, Middle Eastern and French Celtic music. Accordion, percussion, violin, cimbalom (hammer dulcimer) and vocals come together in an infectiously spirited and original way that invites you in to share in the joy.
Eagle Flight Singers
TD Mainstage BandshellMaking a welcome return to Victoria Park after appearing in our 2021 virtual festival, TD Sunfest Connected, the Eagle Flight Singers are a professional First Nations group based in London, Ontario, but with an extensive travel history in the Great Lakes region and beyond.
Kizaba
Jazz Village North StageMontreal-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and composer Lionel Kizaba may have left the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2011, but as the guiding force behind his self-named quartet, he continues to serve as ambassador of the innovative and modern Congolese house music that we need to create an Afro-Futurist world.
Olga Carrasco
TD Sunfest Craft Beer Shade GardenOlga Carrasco Lepijina learned to play the chinchín (a unique bass drum-type percussion instrument popular with urban street performers in Chile) and she is part of the nearly 20 women who dedicate themselves to this expression of their folklore at a national level, participating since 2015 in the Transatlantic Ensemble of Chilean Folk, a musical group from the Valparaíso region.
Sonido Pesao
TD Mainstage BandshellSonido Pesao is a band dedicated to original Latin urban music and founded in Montreal thanks to the union of three rappers: Rila (from Peru), Lunatico (from Guatemala) and Chele (from El Salvador). The group’s compositions energetically mix urban music, rap, cumbia and electronic elements, all supported by rhythms in tune with dynamic Latin American cultures around the globe.
Ammoye
London Breweries StageFive-time JUNO Award nominee and winner of the 2015 Reggae Exclusive Recognition Awards, Ammoye is a powerful female singer/songwriter in the reggae genre.
Zaki Ibrahim
Jazz Village North StageFiltered through the prismatic and often contradictory lenses of personal, historical and scientific relativities, Zaki’s work has been praised as “futuristic soul at its best” and “a retro-Afrofuturist vision” that revisits 40 years of electronic music.
Xênia França
TD Mainstage BandshellXênia França is a talented singer-songwriter from Bahia, Brazil who navigates between jazz, electronica and pop with a bossa nova flair. Her sound is soft and sensual, shrouded in mystique and otherworldly energy. At the centre of an art scene concerned with reviving and disseminating African-Brazilian culture, this ‘force of nature’ has emerged as the voice of female empowerment.
Funk Lion
London Breweries StageIt is impossible to separate Quebec singer-songwriter Francis Brisebois from his extraordinary creation Funk Lion. On a foundation of rock infused with Afrofuturism, Negro Spiritual Song and Voodoo-funk, the Lion delivers an unforgettable musical experience which is best described as an uninhibited psychedelic carnival where tradition and modernism speak the same funky dialect.
Samba Squad
Jazz Village North StageThe musical roots of Afro-Brazil, Afro-Cuba, North and West Africa, as well as elements of urban funk and hip-hop, are dropped into a seething cauldron to produce a dance-till-you-drop tour of global grooves.
Black String
TD Mainstage BandshellShowcasing the art of the large six-string Asian zither known as the geomungo, South Korea’s Black String operates in the borderless zone between Korean traditional music and contemporary jazz where urban electricity meets pastoral space.
