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Something Else! Festival Hamilton 2017

By Frank Rubolino
July 10, 2017
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The Something Else! Festival of Creative Music in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada reached the four-year milestone in June 2017 by offering four days of exciting music by North American, European, and Asian musicians. Zula Music and Arts Collective presented the festival that played at three acoustically friendly venues with both afternoon and evening offerings. A unique feature of this festival was the use of ad hoc groups selected by curator Cem Zafir from various members of the regularly performing acts. These impromptu matchings played between each of the four scheduled afternoon sets on Saturday and again between the four on Sunday afternoon. Ken Vandermark was the Artist in Residence, and his appearance as a soloist, in duet with trumpeter Nate Wooley, with his DKV Trio, with Eloping with the Sun, plus his being featured in two ad hoc collectives furnished the tone for a continually flowing stream of challenging music over the span of the event.

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Ken Vandermark at Something Else! Festival

Tatsuya Nakatani at Something Else! Festival

Stephane Diamantakiou at Something Else! Festival

Scott Thomson at Something Else! Festival

Ellwood Epps at Something Else! Festival

Ellwood Epps & Louis-Vincent Hamel at Something Else!...

Joe Morris at Something Else! Festival

Ingrid Laubrock at Something Else! Festival

Ig Henneman at Something Else! Festival

Tom Rainey at Something Else! Festival

Ab Baars at Something Else! Festival

Nicole Rampersaud at Something Else! Festival

William Parker at Something Else! Festival

Ellwood Epps at Something Else! Festival

Scott Thomson at Something Else! Festival

Kent Kessler, Ken Vandermark & Tom Rainey at Something...

Nate Wooley at Something Else! Festival

Tom Rainey at Something Else! Festival

Ken Vandermark at Something Else! Festival

Joe Morris at Something Else! Festival

Ab Baars at Something Else! Festival

Joe Morris & William Parker at Something Else! Festival

Hamid Drake at Something Else! Festival

Chris Palmer at Something Else! Festival

Ig Henneman at Something Else! Festival

Tatsuya Nakatani at Something Else! Festival

Steve Bates at Something Else! Festival

Kent Kessler at Something Else! Festival

Ken Vandermark at Something Else! Festival

Joe Morris at Something Else! Festival

Ken Vandermark at Something Else! Festival

Nate Wooley at Something Else! Festival

Ken Vandermark & Nate Wooley at Something Else! Festival

Achim Kaufmann at Something Else! Festival

Christian Lillinger at Something Else! Festival

Robert Landfermann at Something Else! Festival

Achim Kaufmann at Something Else! Festival

Joe Morris at Something Else! Festival

William Parker at Something Else! Festival

Hamid Drake at Something Else! Festival

Nate Wooley at Something Else! Festival

William Parker, Hamid Drake, Ab Baars at the Something...

Ken Vandermark at Something Else! Festival

Connor Bennett at Something Else! Festival

Tom Rainey at Something Else! Festival

Ingrid Laubrock at Something Else! Festival

Kent Kessler at Something Else! Festival

Ab Baars & Ingrid Laubrock at Something Else! Festival

Nate Wooley at Something Else! Festival

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