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MISSY D

This year’s Full Circle and Coastal Jazz’s co-Feature Artist (with KeAloha), Missy D is a fierce bilingual femcee from the intersection of Rwanda, Côte d’Ivoire, and Zimbabwe. Singing and rapping since age 11, Missy fuses her musical heritage with hip hop, soul, and R&B. Her dizzyingly diverse sense of genre is matched by her stellar band: Ian Cardona and Yato Noukoussi drums, Vinay Lobo guitar, Dave Taylor bass, and Sejal Lal violin/vocals.

Presented in association with Full Circle: First Nations Performance

CAST

Jessica Léger voice/guitar/percussion, Ben Brown drums/metallophone/xylophone, and James Meger bass artfully centre rhythm and voice in CAST. In their uncluttered arrangements—where space and silence act almost as additional band members—every musical choice is charged with intention as they move from the intimate to the immense.

Sponsored in part by CHMC Granville Island