ES:MO is Elizabeth Shepherd and Michael Occhipinti, two favorites of the jazz club who have graced our stage several times in the past years. They are two imaginative and acclaimed musicians from Montreal and Toronto, who push against the boundaries of genres to seek out the new.
ES:MO’s love of contemporary harmony and rhythm gets paired up with a love of great songwriters, explorations in electronics and modern guitar soundscapes, r&b and funk, poetry, folk and orchestral traditions, and great musicianship.
Michael Occhipinti’s huge colour palette of guitar work combined with Elizabeth Shepherd’s soulful and ethereal voice and keyboard work is a special pairing, as evidenced by their debut album, The Weight of Hope, which received a 2022 JUNO Award nomination (individually Michael and Elizabeth have a combined 17 JUNO nominations).
The album was built around the duo’s ability to interpret the great songs of Stevie Wonder, Bruce Cockburn, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake and others, and the duo are just about to release a single which interprets Americana artist Jason Isbell’s “If We Were Vampires.”
Doors open 6:45 pm
No Minors
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