2021 Festival Artists

Don Soul is a music producer, multi-instrumentalist, song writer and has been producing for many artists in the GTA and surrounding areas. His diverse music allows for creative ideas and introspection being guided by the principle “Higher Infinite Power, Healing Our People” to flow together collectively, and it shows in his music.

Sara O. Shahsavari (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, performer, and cross cultural community-builder. Born to a family of migrants who came to Canada as refugees from Iran and Poland, she has found herself in the middle of a larger moving picture.

Saskia Tomkins is a master musician of Violin/Fiddle Viola, Cello and Nyckelharpa. She is classically trained with a folk background and a B.A.hons. in Music (Jazz & Popular Music), and she won All Britain Champion Irish Fiddler. Saskia’s current personal projects include Steáfán & Saskia with Steáfán Hannigan, the instrumental jazz/roots duo 2ish, with Brandon Scott Besharah; the Celtic crossover group Cáirdeas and the jazz trio Marsala and the Imports.

Danny Taro, a.k.a. Erroneous Monk, is a rapper, activist and entrepreneur. An organizer at heart, events follow Danny wherever he goes, including Bangkok, Thailand, where he worked as a teacher for nearly 5 years. While living in Bangkok, and finding himself in good company, Danny started a band called Peanut Butter Jams, which produced 3 EPs: Launch, Transit, and Arrival.

Steelburner & Suns is a musical family, enjoying creating and performing together. Featuring the Staveley-Watson family, these musicians learn and play together, performing a collection of original and traditional tunes as a 4 piece band.

JONCRO is an Afro-Jamaican fronted experimental noise rock/Dubgaze based out of Mississauga, Ontario. They have been together for five years as of November and have been spreading the gospel of noise ever since. The name Joncro is Jamaican Patois for vulture, specifically the turkey vultures that are native to the Americas.

Ále is a queer, trans, non-binary, Venezuelan-American, Canadian immigrant, multi-instrumentalist, Expressive Arts Therapist and singer songwriter. Phew that's a whole lot of adjectives but bare with us! Their dream is to create a safe space for the LGBTQI2SA+ community to dwell and commune with the divine and spirituality.

Original, post folk/rock group out of Peterborough. Edging into the ethereal (and sometimes the hokey), trans-genre, quirky, heartwarming and powerful songs twining natural imagery with love, suffering and personal growth. The cornerstones of the band are vocal harmonies, electric banjo, percussion, and occasionally a kazoo.

people you meet outside of bars is the tenderly spooky, uncannily tuneful, and radically honest musical project of Satah Cameron. their prolific output includes at least 16 EPs and albums which take listeners by the hand and guide them through bedrooms, hospital rooms, and dive bar bathrooms, whispering poetry in their ears all the while.