Event type: Performance

Local, national, and international master puppeteers and presenters provide inspiring talks/panels, practical how-to workshops, and puppetry performances.

Our 10th edition of Puppet Power explores the idea of “Celebration” and the impact and potential of Applied Puppetry in all sorts of practices.

More than just entertainment, our Festival of Ideas is about making authentic connections, having meaningful conversations on important topics, and motivating a call to action to use the power of puppetry to impact positive social change.

Online: May 23rd – 29th, times vary

All access pass and individual tickets available.

Event type: All Ages / Licensed

Daniel Romano’s Outfit
After two years Daniel Romano’s Outfit is back on the road.
Though a lot of time has passed since their last live performance, it certainly has not stopped their productivity in the studio. 2020 – 2021 brought in many studio projects including an ambitious 20 minute collaboration with drummer Danny Carey. Now back with their new album Cobra Poems you can expect a live mixture of old and new favorites done with The Outfit’s signature energetic and emotive form of rock and roll.

Carson McHone
Carson McHone is a songwriter from Austin, Texas. Her new LP, produced by prolific Canadian musician Daniel Romano, is set to be released in early 2022 on Merge records in the US, and Loose Music in the UK and Europe. McHone’s last album, Carousel (Nine Mile Records/Loose Music), produced by Austin music scene veteran Mike McCarthy (known for his close partnership with Spoon as well as albums by Trail Of Dead, Patty Griffin, Heartless Bastards, and more), was selected by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the “Best Country and Americana Albums of 2018”.

Tickets can be purchased here: https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/39620/

NICK MACLEAN QUARTET feat. BROWNMAN ALI (Kingston)

THR-MAY-26

7:00pm – 10:30pm

@ RCHA Club | www.RCHAClub.com

193 Ontario St, Kingston, ON K7L 2Y7

$15 advance, $20 door

tix: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/321405842527

or by phone (613)542-8152

facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/312596061027918

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” A fresh look at Herbie Hancock classics and delicious new original themes all presented with taste and virtuosity. No safety net here, everyone is living on the edge.”

– Bruce Cassidy (Blood, Sweat & Tears Musical Director ’04-’09, renonwed EVI player)

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Led by 29-year old fast-rising piano star NICK MACLEAN — an 8x Global Music Award winner and one of the most in-demand young jazz piano players in Toronto — this contemplative yet thrilling quartet delivers jazz between the two poles of thoughtful introspection and powerhouse conveyance, taking influences from Herbie Hancock’s primordial 1960’s Blue Note era recordings. Maclean’s quartet heavily features one of Canada’s most provocative improvising trumpet players — BROWNMAN ALI — an internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning jazz iconoclast who has been heralded as “Canada’s preeminent jazz trumpet player” by New York City’s Village Voice and is best known globally as the last trumpet player to play in the legendary jazz-hip-hop group GURU’s JAZZMATAZZ. For this show, Ali & Maclean stand shoulder-to-shoulder with 2 of Canada’s top-tier 20-somethings: BEN DUFF on upright bass, and JACOB WUTZKE on drums as the group prepares to record their second studio album – a hotly anticipated follow up of their decorated debut release RITES OF ASCENSION (2017, Browntasauras Records).

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:: Nick Maclean – piano

:: Brownman Ali – trumpet

:: Ben Duff – bass

:: Jacob Wutzke – drums

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WATCH Nick Maclean Quartet perform the Brownman original ‘Madness of Nero’

https://youtu.be/XCff–TfSdc

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For more info:

www.NicholasMaclean.com

www.Brownman.com

www.Browntasauras.com

JUNE 1-4, 2022 – DOWNTOWN KINGSTON, ONTARIO!

SPRING REVERB is a four-day exhibition that will promote, develop and showcase the Kingston music scene! With concerts, panels and special guest talks, SPRING REVERB will highlight local emerging acts, welcome out-of-town headliners, build connections between visiting industry guests and artists, provide opportunities for learning, and of course, celebrate the return of live music.

Lots of our programming is free, including ALL the panels! Join us June 1-4 in Kingston, Ontario for the inaugural SPRING REVERB! The full lineup of concerts panels is listed below:

Event type: Ages 19+

*This is the NEW re-scheduled date (original date March 28 has been rescheduled to June 1)
All tickets purchased for original date will be honoured!

KPP Concerts Flying V Productions present:

PUP CASPER SKULLS

JUNE 1, 2022

Ale House, Kingston, ON

6:30pm

Seven newcomer women share their stories of immigration and adaptation to Canada, told through a pair of shoes.

The Shoe Project reveals how footwear – whether selected by choice or imposed in difficult circumstances – can make or break a journey, shape the present and open the door to a new future. Shoes can be terrible or wonderful, but one thing is certain, every new Canadian has a shoe tale to tell.

For those who have embarked on the long journey to a new life in a new country, shoes are a powerful metaphor for their journey.

The experience of sharing these deeply personal stories is empowering, and, for those who are there to hear, profound.

There have been performances in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and Halifax – and now Kingston!

In “Our Shoes, Our Lives”, seven immigrant women, originally from Afghanistan, Russia, Syria, Turkey, India, Bolivia and South Sudan, will share their stories of arrival in and adaptation to Canada, through the focus of a pair of shoes. The audience will be invited to join a Q & A session after the presentations.