{"id":44480,"date":"2024-06-14T01:47:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T08:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=44480"},"modified":"2024-06-13T09:17:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T16:17:39","slug":"traditional-yet-contemporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2024\/06\/14\/traditional-yet-contemporary\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional yet contemporary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boris Sichon, above, and Jesse Waldman return to this year\u2019s Mission Folk Music Festival, which takes place July 26-28 at Fraser River Heritage Park. <\/i>(photo from missionfolkmusicfestival.ca<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cI know that people are going to find that new-to-them artist that changes their world. I know that new friendships will be forged among volunteers. And I know that people will just enjoy being together in the park in community,\u201d said Michelle Demers Shaevitz, artistic and executive director of the Mission Folk Music Festival, about the upcoming weekend-long event. \u201cThat\u2019s what I look forward to the most.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joining Demers Shaevitz at this year\u2019s festival, which takes place July 26-28 at Fraser River Heritage Park, will be fellow Jewish community members Boris Sichon and Jesse Waldman. Both musicians are returning artists to the festival, but will be performing new material.<\/p>\n

Sichon will be leading the interactive Recychestra, an orchestra that uses musical instruments made from recycled objects. The performance is the last part of an instrument-building program offered through the City of Mission next month.<\/p>\n

The idea for Recychestra came from a meeting with Mark Haney, a composer and musician working for the City of Mission, said Sichon. The program comprises seven sessions between July 6 and 26 at the Mission Leisure Centre, culminating in the July 28 performance at the Mission Folk Music Festival \u2013 though Sichon would like the program to carry on.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope we\u2019re going to continue this project after the festival,\u201d he told the Independent<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Anyone who is interested in participating can do so via mission.ca\/culture<\/a> or by emailing culture@mission.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know yet who\u2019s going to sign up,\u201d Sichon said. \u201cKids love to create musical instruments more than playing instruments, while adults enjoy both activities. It would be great to have some musician friends from the Mission community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even if someone hasn\u2019t attended the program, they will be welcome to join the orchestra at the festival performance, said Sichon. \u201cWe will have enough recycled instruments. It will be a very friendly atmosphere, joyful. Play and dance!\u201d<\/p>\n

Waldman is also looking forward to performing at the Mission Folk Music Festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got some great new songs to share and a couple tricks up our sleeves, too!\u201d said Waldman, who will perform in several music sessions, including in concert with Beau Wheeler on the Sunday afternoon of the festival. The collaboration with Wheeler has been a long time in the making.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d seen Beau perform at an art space in East Van nearly 20 years ago and was blown away,\u201d said Waldman. \u201cMany moons passed, until 2018, where I was performing in the Monica Lee Band and we shared a bill with Beau at Pat\u2019s Pub. Beau caught our set with Monica and invited the band to stay on stage and join him and it was a magical moment. We decided we should get together again and that\u2019s how it all started. We have a lot of the same taste in music and are both very emotional players. I try and add memorable and atmospheric parts to fit the feeling of Beau\u2019s amazing songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Waldman has been busy since the Independent<\/i> spoke with him in advance of last year\u2019s Mission folk festival. Among the highlights, he said, are \u201c[t]he completion of a new full-length album entitled The Shimmering Divide<\/i>, set for release September 2024 [and an] outstanding full band performance at Or Shalom Synagogue featuring a rendition of \u2018Papirosen,\u2019 where the band played along with my grandmother\u2019s voice from a tape from 1957.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video of that performance can be viewed at youtube.com\/watch?v=5F5GNRMf1fQ<\/a>. For more about the song, visit jewishindependent.ca\/a-great-grandmothers-song<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Jesse Waldman (photo from jessewaldmanmusic.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following Waldman\u2019s first album, Mansion Full Of Ghosts<\/i>, The Shimmering Divide<\/i> \u201csees an even more introspective songwriting exploration by Waldman with lyrics that are both confessional and poetic, vulnerable and hopeful, spanning the personal and the universal,\u201d notes the PR material.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, the title The Shimmering Divide represents the age-old battle between good and evil, which path to take to do the right thing in your life \u2013 those points in your life are charged with possibilities that can change it forever,\u201d said Waldman.<\/p>\n

In all, some 30 artists from around the world will be participating in this year\u2019s Mission Folk Music Festival. In selecting performers, Demers Shaevitz tends to focus on a theme.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis year,\u201d she said, \u201cI was digging into this idea of tradition and looking for artists that are grounded in their tradition. What that means for me is finding artists who can emphasize a through line in their music. Who can take the best parts of their culture, genre, community or language, for example, and bring it to audiences in new and or exciting ways. This is key to me when I consider folk traditions: I want contemporary takes on this heritage artform. We\u2019ll hear that in Moira & Claire and their Maritime song tradition. We\u2019ll hear that in how PIQSIQ presents Inuit throat singing in a contemporary context. And we\u2019ll hear (and dance) to how Kobo Town takes traditional Trinidadian sounds and modernizes them for today\u2019s audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information about the festival, including the schedule and tickets, visit missionfolkmusicfestival.ca<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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