Mboya Nicholson & the Shortkestra

For this performance, honouring Black History Month, Mboya Nicholson and the Shortkestra (only 9 musicians, so its a short orchestra!), delves into the repertoire of several great pioneers.

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  •  February 24, 2024
     8:00 pm - 10:30 pm

Part of this concert will be a kind of tip of the hat to African American settlers who moved up to Alberta from Oklahoma and various places in the midwestern and southern United States, as the Shortkestra will play few pieces from Count Basie’s and Bennie Moten’s orchestras, which came to prominence in some of the same regions of the U.S. Those settlers to Alberta came from years earlier.

In addition, there will be music by Turner Layton, and various timeless standards.

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Band members

Mboya Nicholson, piano/leader
Fred Mack, alto sax
Jacob Do, tenor sax
Dan Davis, bari sax
Doug Berner, trumpet
Samuel Heintzman, trumpet
Madeline Vandersluys, trombone
Rubim de Toledo, bass
Biboye Onanuga, drums

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