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‘Jazz on the Road’ – Hannah Mazurek Quartet Live Concert at Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom
Fri, Nov 7
Doors open – 7:30 / Music – 8:00
Pay what you want! Reserve your spot at kiacyukon.square.site
Co-presented with Jazz Yukon – ‘Jazz on the Road’
How do you create music that’s simple and comforting, but adventurous and exciting at the same time? In other words, can you make an audience go “ahhhh” in the same sentence as “hunh?” With a dash of vocal jazz syntax, a tablespoon of surprising harmonic progressions, some honest lyricism, and a splash of delightful time signature math, The Hannah Mazurek Quartet will do their best to serve you up a platter of tunes that are equal parts personal and playful. This genre-defying project will combine original composition with favourites from artists that toe the lines between jazz, blues, classical, folk, and whatever else they happened to be listening to that day.
Hannah Mazurek is a Whitehorse-based vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, conductor, composer, and technician. They have performed in concert and theatre settings across the country including the oratorio Miziwe… everywhere by composer Barbara Assiginaak (Koerner Hall, Toronto, 2019), Larrikin Entertainment’s WYRD: A Musical Unfairytale (Yukon Arts Centre, 2023), The Loon Returns (Problematic Orchestra, 2023), and I Think I’m Fallin: The Songs of Joni Mitchell (Belfry Theatre, Victoria, 2023). With a formal background in classical music, they are the current Artistic Director of Whitehorse’s Problematic Orchestra and have composed for theatre, stage, and film.
When they’re not writing or performing, you can find Hannah coiling cables and plugging things in, as well as playing in many, many, many bands. They also do other things, perhaps too many things, but they’ll spare you from having to read a list of them. Learn more at hannahmazurek.com
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The band:
Hannah Mazurek (vocals and keys)
Jordy Walker (guitar)
Adam Cripps (bass)
Jake Jenne (drums)
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photo: Jon Walters
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Thanks to our funders: Government of Canada, Yukon Government, and Canada Council for the Arts
Special thanks to our show sponsor Northern Vision Development (Downtown Hotel, Eldorado Hotel, and Midnight Sun Hotel)
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Founded in 2001, in a partnership with Parks Canada, the KIAC Artist in Residence Program has welcomed over 300 talented artists, musicians and filmmakers to Dawson City from all regions of Canada and around the world. Our alumni include Sobey Art Award nominees, Western Canada Music Award winners, and prize-winning filmmakers from film festivals across the globe.
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Youth Art Enrichment is an annual four-day art program for Yukon youth hosted by the Klondike Institute of Art & Culture in Dawson City. Artistically-inclined youth ages 14 – 18 travel from across the Yukon to take part in intensive workshops led by professional artists. Students choose one of three mediums to study for the duration of the program, learning new skills, techniques, and ways to creatively make artwork for the world to see. The mediums change every year: we have offered printmaking, animation, painting, carving, stained glass, illustration, improv, and much more over the last two decades.
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