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Event

Title:: Summerdance “HOPE” with Jason and the Diatonics
When:: Tue, Apr 23
Where:: Lethbridge
Category:: Pop

Description

Time: 7 p.m.

Cover: $15 adults, $10 students and Seniors

April 23-25 at the Yates

Approximately 70 s Lethbridge Collegiate Institute students will be showing their best jazz and hip hop dance moves to the live music of Jason and the Diatonics.

Summerdance performance “HOPE”. It is a new and exciting project for our dance program. In addition to working with live and original music our students are working intensely with Joanne Baker and Tara Wilson from Calgary who are dance professionals. Joanne is a modern and Jazz dancer and Tara Wilson is a Hip Hop specialist. They have already been working with our students and will be in residence off and on during the next two months. . They come to us as a result of an Artists in Education grant from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. This is all a part of our philosophy of enriching students experience through access to professionals.

Jason and the Diatonics

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Jason & the Diatonics is an emerging Canadian band based in Vancouver BC. This group of displaced Albertans is built upon the musings of singer/songwriter Jason Poulsen and augmented by the musical prowess of the Diatonics (Joel Mohr, Erik Olson, Stephanie Olson and Jim McLaren). J&D assembled over the course of 2010 through a myriad of friendships, coincidences, beverages and a love of music. The result is a fresh style of Acoustic-Pop full of stuck-in-your-head melodies and slick arrangements.

Independently released in July of 2011, ‘million miles of trouble’ is the title of the quintet's debut effort. The album has been called "...a bright-eyed and easygoing mix of coffee-house folk and acoustic pop, anchored by the confident vocals of singer-guitarist Jason Poulsen" (Mike Usinger - Georgia Straight). With 10 tracks of catchy melodies and whimsical wordplay, 'million miles of trouble' has been heard on CKUA in Alberta, CiTR in Vancouver, CIWSin Ontario and Butterflies Radio online.

Jason & the Diatonics were invited to perform as a live guest on Shaw TV's 'Urban Rush' and selections from 'million miles of trouble' are featured in the Vancouver web-series 'Social Life'. J&D have toured BC and Alberta 3 times and are currently working on a sophomore album that promises to build musically and conceptually on 'million miles of trouble'.Jason & the Diatonics are a Canadian band based in Vancouver. Playing their own brand of Acoustic-Pop, J&D are a Feel-Good Quintet that borrow from Jazz, Funk, Folk and Rock. With stuck-in-your-head melodies and slick arrangements, J&D appeal to both the music lover and the casual listener.

Venue

Venue:: Yates Theatre-Sterndale Bennett Theatre
Street:: 1002 - 4 Avenue South.
ZIP:: T1J 0P6
City:: Lethbridge
State:: Alberta
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Description

The Yates Theatre is located downtown next to Lethbidge City Hall. It is a great room which hosts a variety of shows including music and comedy from Ian Tyson to Ron James.

The Genevieve E. Yates Memorial Centre consists of two performance spaces, the Yates Theatre, a 486 seat proscenium theatre, and the Sterndale Bennett Theatre, a black box theatre with a maximum audience capacity of 180. Several facilities are shared between the two theatres. These include a costume construction/sewing room; a set construction workshop; set, costume, and property storage areas; offices; box office and concessions. In addition to serving as a performance venue, the Yates Memorial Centre also houses an art gallery in the upper mezzanine area. Works from new and established visual artists are displayed on a rotating basis for the enjoyment of both theatre patrons and the general public.

Ticket Centre - (403) 329-7328