“Especially with instrumental music, a lot of the songs we write have certain ideas or situations or emotions or feelings that we want to convey through like the melody, our chord choices, how we’re playing or our tones,” he says. “So sometimes it’s nice to just to have these like smaller, more intimate settings to be like ‘this is what this song is about’ or like you know like this is what we wrote about and kind of inform.”
Durocher formed Apollo Suns about 6 years back. Since then they’ve launched 3 EPs, have a full-length album en route and have actually explored thoroughly in Canada and the U.S. in the previous couple of years.
“We call ourselves a blend of psychedelic jazz-funk, some rock thrown in and pop music stuff in there.”
Apollo Suns have actually played in Medicine Hat prior to however this is the group’s very first look as part of JazzFest.
Durocher says everybody has actually been simple to deal with and extremely expert.
“I like playing jazz fests in general because all the volunteers are supporters. They like the music, they like working with musicians and the organizations and it’s very supportive,” he says.
There is another workshop Friday afternoon including Caity Gyorgy on the Esplanade front yard and JazzFest concludes on Sunday.
Find the complete schedule and more information at medicinehatjazzfest.com.
