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About Us

Credits

Photographers

Thanks to the following photograhers, whose work appears on this site (sorry, we can't credit every individual photograph), taken from our archive of photos over the last 10 years of the Festival:

  • Tom King
  • Hal Schuler
  • Herb Greenslade
  • Lisa Stone
  • Dougal Bichan website

Performer photos

Most of the performer photos are supplied by the artists or their managers. Photographic credits appear on the performers' web sites.

Illustration, Web and Graphic Design

Thanks to the designers and artists who help us represent a music festival in graphic terms:

  • Barking Dog Studios who redesigned our web site in 2008 and continue to advise us on web matters
  • whose illustration graces this year's festival publicity (see banner above)
  • Helen Dimitrijevic, our print designer, who translated Ed's illustration into a complete print identity
  • Paul Morin, the Rockwood, Ontario artist who sculpted our "jazzima" (jazz lady) logo figure many years ago

Colloquium Keynote: Deborah Wong

Ethnomusicologist Deborah Wong is a respected author, Professor of Music, and performer specializing in the musics of Asian America and Thailand. A member of Satori Daiko (Taiko Center of Los Angeles) and author of 2004's Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music, Wong is also a keynote speaker and course facilitator of the inaugural Summer Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. Her keynote address is entitled, "Improvisation in American Taiko."

Friday Sept. 5, 9:00 - 10:00am
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (Free)

Tickets 2008