PERFORMING IN TORONTO ON MARCH 6 AT THE DANFORTH
TICKETS ON SALE NOV 15
TOUR DATES CONTINUE IN KINGSTON, OTTAWA, AND MONTREAL THIS WEEK
LISTEN AND SHARE “CLOUDS” FT. MOONCHILD’S AMBER NAVRAN AND “SUMMER”
Today, Busty and the Bass announce their upcoming performance in Toronto at the Danforth Music Hall on March 6. Tickets for the show are on sale this Friday, November 15. The band also performs this month in Kingston, Ottawa, and Montreal. Full dates can be found below.
Recently, the Montréal octet returned with two new singles “Clouds”, featuring Moonchild’s Amber Navran, and “Summer”. The eight-piece, Nick Ferraro [vocals, alto sax], Evan Crofton a.k.a. Alistair Blu [vocals, keys, synths], Scott Bevins [trumpet], Chris Vincent [trombone], Louis Stein [guitar], Milo Johnson [bass], Eric Haynes [keys, piano], and Julian Trivers [drums ]— score nostalgic lyrical ruminations with a soundscape of simmering soul, fiery funk, spirited rock, hypnotic hip-hop, and artful R&B.
LISTEN AND SHARE “CLOUDS” FT. MOONCHILD’S AMBER NAVRAN AND “SUMMER”
For the new songs Busty and the Bass reunited with Grammy Award-Winning producer Neal Pogue [OutKast, Tyler, the Creator, Earth Wind and Fire] and for the first time, the group welcomed a guest vocalist on the record. Navran lent her unmistakable croon to “Clouds” as a slick guitar echoes through a steady and stark beat and trumpets pipe up between warbling talk box and a heartfelt hook. The song “Summer” incorporates a swell of cinematic strings, adding rich scope to the tune where vocalist Nick Ferraro describes “a shitty summer and breaking up with happiness.”
The octet met during their first week as students in the jazz program at McGill University back in 2011. They went on to drop a pair of EPs - GLAM [2015] and LIFT [2016] - before unveiling 2017’s full-length debut, Uncommon Good. In addition to packing houses on headline tours, they graced the stages of international festivals such as Made in America, Osheaga, Pinkpop, Montreal International Jazz Festival, The Great Escape, Ottawa Bluefest, and Rifflandia, playing alongside the likes of Radiohead, Anderson .Paak, and Lana Del Rey. To date, they’ve amassed over 10 million total streams and attracted the acclaim of Huffington Post and many more.
BUSTY AND THE BASS UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Nov 13 - Kingston, ON - The Ale House
Nov 14 - Ottawa, ON - The 27 Club
Nov 21 - Montreal, QC - M For Montreal
Mar 6 - Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall
Mar 10 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
Mar 13 - Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour
PRAISE FOR BUSTY AND THE BASS
"Combining their love of funk, soul, hip-hop, gospel and dance, Busty and the Bass is one of the baddest in the land when it comes to delivering unified sounds for the masses." - Okayplayer
"How A Nine-Piece Band Came To Defy Genre & Tour The World... By merging classic influences of Michael Jackson and Earth, Wind and Fire with modern touches of Kendrick Lamar and James Blake, the band managed to create a sound that’s eclectic, fresh, and yet familiar all at the same time." - Ones To Watch
"Canadian Artists You Need to Have on Your Radar RN.... Sophisticated cross between smooth jazz and top 40 pop." - Flare Magazine
"An undeniable live performance and a sound that’s best described as a lovechild between jazz, hip-hop, and electro-soul." - Complex
"Some fresh beats along with a juicy melody and you’ve got yourself an aural feast at which a jazzy, funkalicious hip-hop-infused experience awaits you." - The Huffington Post
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