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GJF Art Auction raises $21,000

Over 100 people turned out for the Guelph Jazz Festival Art Auction last month at the e-bar. And they helped us raise an astounding (to us) $21,000! That's our most successful one-off fundraiser ever. Thanks to all who attended, to the artists who contributed, to the dozens of volunteers who helped us stage the afternoon - and especially to new board member Stella Pasion who courageously took on this new assignment in January, and blew us all away with her execution!

Contributing Artists:

Scott Abbott | Chris Ahlers | Marilyn Clarke | Nick Craine | Greg Denton | Susan Dobson | Kenny Doren | Will Gorlitz | John Heward | Lise Janis | Marilyn Koop | Mary Karavos | Ed Kuris | Gordon Laird | Susan Lapp | Cesar Leiva | Tania Love | Toby MacPhee | Joel Masewich | Barry McCarthy | Andrew Miles | Ryan Price | Glenna Rebick | Reinhard Reitzenstein | Cheryl Ruddock | Don Russell | Vanya Ryan | Kristin Samuel-Stevens | Candace Sepulis | Anne Schnurr | Graeme Sheffield | Karin Silverstone | Jerrard Smith | Mark Stutman | Annette Twist | Robert Weaver

John Zorn’s Electric Masada

‘Masada’ refers to John Zorn’s book of 500-plus brief compositions that, in their deployment of traditional ‘Jewish’ modes as provocations for improvisation in oft-extreme contexts, are at the core of his exploration of what he calls “Radical Jewish Culture,” played here by the most active of his many ensembles.

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