Ottawa International Jazz Festival
The Sway Machinery
Friday | NAC Fourth Stage
Tickets for this event are only available online at www.ottawajazzfestival.com
Featuring
Jeremiah Lockwood – guitar, vocals
John Bollinger – drums, voice
Stuart Bogie – tenor saxophone
Jordan McLean – trumpet
Nikhil Yerawadekar – bass guitar, voice
For those who have seen The Sway Machinery in action, little explanation is needed. The band's combination of rhythmic power and potent folklore takes no prisoners. On stage the energy of submerged worlds is torn out into the light of day. And indeed, the historical tradition of Cantorial music, which is the focus of the band's work, is very much a lost world. The music of The Sway Machinery invites the listener to become like children wandering in the forest, discovering something mythic and wonderful.
"Jeremiah Lockwood makes the ancient modern and the mythological real" –The Village Voice