July 4/26       Soul Delegation

The Soul Delegation is Southwestern Ontario’s premier soul and R&B band. The band has been entertaining audiences for the past 10 years in prestigious venues such as Caesar’s Windsor, the Dominion House, and a multitude of private events and weddings. We are known for our rip roaring renditions of classic soul and R&B from artists such as the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, and many more! We are a 10-piece band sure to excite and energize any live event or party. https://www.facebook.com/SoulDelegation/

July 12/26     Ryan Janzen, Laura Bolt & Ed Janzen

Ryan Janzen’s compositions have been performed internationally in New York, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Copenhagen and Shanghai. Featured on CBC, Danish radio, and at the World Expo, Ryan Janzen’s compositions have been sought after for art music, film, and esoteric concerts. As experience-designer/music director of 24 live concerts and producer of 3 albums, he has collaborated extensively with musicians, orchestras, and interdisciplinary researchers. Deep harmonic ambient sound + electronics, and interaction with the environment, are part of Janzen’s custom-designed concert experiences, where audiences are immersed in harmonic, ethereal soundscapes, linking the physical world, electronics, instruments, and Janzen’s voice and body.  Janzen’s work has been at the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), Palazzo Lombardia (Milan), Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto), Palazzo degli Affari (Florence, Italy).  Janzen’s work embodies a fusion between art and science.  He has produced an array of art music, film music, orchestral and choral compositions, performance art, and high-tech performances that push the limits of art and science. https://edjanzen.ca/

Laura Bolt is a multi-disciplinary artist with training as a classical musician, actor, and scientist. She currently performs as a flautist with several Toronto-based orchestras and works with a range of media as an artist. She is a former faculty member at OCAD University (Toronto, ON), and her painting “Moo Cow on Flower Mountain” is featured in the permanent collection of the Gay Lea Dairy Museum (Aylmer, ON). Laura also leads a research program in animal behaviour as an assistant professor of forestry at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at University of Toronto, and her study of the natural world has strong impact on her artistic practice. https://www.harthouseorchestra.ca/laura-bolt-flute/

Austin Di Pietro is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, arranger, and trumpeter based in the Windsor–Detroit border region. He holds a Master’s degree in Jazz Trumpet Performance from Wayne State University and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Windsor. His creative practice spans jazz, indie, and contemporary music, with a strong focus on original composition and collaborative performance.  Austin is an active performer throughout Southwestern Ontario and the Midwest, appearing regularly at festivals and concert series on both sides of the border. In addition to leading the Borderland Ensemble, he is a founding member of the indie duo The Bishop Boys and has contributed as a sideman, arranger, and session musician across a wide range of projects. His work has been supported by the Windsor Endowment for the Arts and the Canada Council for the Arts, and he has recently expanded his practice into film scoring, with work premiering at the Windsor International Film Festival. https://4thwallmusic.com/austin-di-pietro/

Cassandra Caverhill writes about memory and life’s subtle textures. Her work has appeared in The Malahat Review, The Louisville Review, Reed Magazine, Short Reads, and many others. She obtained her MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University and volunteers as a prose reader for The Chestnut Review. Cassandra’s passionate approach to teaching has supported many writers in the Windsor-Essex community and she continues to coach from Creativity Cavern, her home studio. A karaoke and cycling enthusiast, Cassandra’s drafting a manuscript about her bike travels through the Laurentians and Le P’tit Train du Nord trail. Find out more at www.cassandracaverhill.com.

Tina Newlove continues to be recognized by curators and jurors as an artist who is making a significant contribution to the cultural life of Canada.  The Arts & Letters Club of Toronto founded by members of the Group of Seven commissioned Tina to create the annual 1998/99 Executive List.  Her abstract oil painting titled Organizing my Mind is in the City of Toronto’s permanent collection.  In 2011 Newlove received a First Place Award for her bronze sculpture A Song Grew Through My Rib Cage from Lakeshore Arts and in 2010 an Award of Merit for her painting Step Lightly at the Art Gallery of Hamilton.  In 2008 Tina’s sponsors for her PROTECTION exhibition at the Latcham Gallery included Bruce Cockburn and the Ontario Arts Council.  Tina Newlove is a founding member of Tribe of One, a Canadian Performance Collective that fuses the soul of Indigenous folk-funk rock with English, French, First Nation and Metis, singers, dancers, painters and musicians.  In 2014 Tina has received an exhibition assistance grant for her solo show Nervous Wait from the Ontario Arts Council and was recommended by the Art Gallery of Burlington. https://tinanewlove.com/

August 9/26             The Zerbo Brothers, Sheniz Janmohamed

Bringing together music new and old sourced across thousands of miles travelled, the Zerbo Brothers connect West African, American and other traditions in a new blend of song. Emmanuel, Joseph, and Darren make music with traditional and modern instruments including Kora, Ngoni, Calabash, Cajon, Guitars, Banjos, Mandolin, and a variety of Percussion instruments. https://www.zerbobrothers.com/ YouTubehttps://www.instagram.com/thezerbobrothers/

Sheniz Janmohamed is an author, artist educator, and spoken word artist.  A graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Guelph, Sheniz has been mentored by authors Dionne Brand, Kuldip Gill, and Janice Kulyk Keefer.  She has performed nationally and internationally for over 10 years, including features at the TedXYouth Conference (Toronto, 2010), the Jaipur Literature Festival (Jaipur, 2013), and the Aga Khan Museum (Toronto, 2015).  Her work has been published in various print and online journals and anthologies including West Coast Line, SUFI, and Descant. https://shenizjanmohamed.com/

August 23/26    Audrey Gausserain, Teajai Travis, Allison Ware & Evangeline Yetman

Audrey Gaussiran was trained at the Conservatoire de danse de Montréal (2007), Audrey Gaussiran deepened her hybrid practice in Brazil, Cuba, New York, and Spain. As a performer, she worked notably with DJD in Calgary (2012-2016) and ZEUGMA DANSE in Montreal (2017-2021). In 2024, her choreographic journey earned her a nomination for Emerging Artist of the Year in Laval. She created Le 2e sexe (2014), Corrida (2017), and Portraits dansés (2017), seven short films that were finalists for CALQ’s Work of the Year Award (2019). With CTRL:N (2019), Fisheye (2020), and MOSAÏCO (2024), she continues to innovate by blending movement with digital technologies. https://www.audreygaussiran.com/

Teajai Travis is an adventurer and spiritualist inspired by his self-liberated ancestors who journeyed the Underground Railroad. Guided by their courage, he uses art as an instrument of service—bridging community outreach and social justice through storytelling, spoken word, and meditation. https://www.facebook.com/p/Storyteller-Teajai-Travis-100063239500181/

Allison Ware is a recent graduate from the University of Windsor’s School of Creative Arts with a BFA in Visual Arts. Allison is an interdisciplinary artist who translates observation and lived experience into visual communication. She has worked as a student fellow with the Detroit–Windsor United Nations Centre for Regional Expertise, the Co-Artistic Director of Synthesis zine, a research assistant with the Noiseborder Multimedia Performance Lab University of Windsor, Production Manager for Flutter Fest’s En Plein Air Painting Competition, a student ambassador for the Visual Arts Department, and a member of Stone & Sky’s Youth Advisory Committee. Using painting, drawing, projection, photography, and conversation, her work explores endangered species, vulnerable landscapes, and ecological connection, informed by her lived experience along the north shore of Lake Erie within the Carolinian Forest region. https://www.instagram.com/alliware.jpg/

Evangeline Yetman is a graduating student at the University of Windsor. She enjoys editing, having experience within the UWindsor Writing Group, and the river, too by Marty Gervais, and Pamela Cole’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. In her own poetry and prose, she likes to work with constraints, narrative theory, and rhythm. Currently, she is working as an editor in Generations and is a Co-Artistic Director for “Synthesis”.