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WJO ​Safe at Home Concerts
La Nouvelle Nation
- available from February 15 to February 28

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La Nouvelle Nation
- stream release date February 15, 8:00-8:30 pm - in collaboration with Festival du Voyageur

Featuring Andrina Turenne and Ariane Jean with the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra.

Featuring Andrina Turenne and Ariane Jean with the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra.
Take a musical voyage from old Paris to the Métis new nation with songs like For Me, Formidable, La Vie en Rose, Histoire d’antan and J’entends le Moulin.  Throw in a couple of big band charts to spice things up and you’ve got yourself a fantastic show!
 
L’orchestre Jazz de Winnipeg vous propose un voyage  en chansons, qui vous transporteront de Paris jusqu’au Manitoba, le tout sur un fond de Big Band. Vous entendrez, entre autres, For Me, Formidable, La Vie en Rose, Histoire d’antan et J’entends le Moulin. L’OJW vous promet un concert virtuel gratuit inoubliable lundi le 15 février à 20h.

Songs performed:
Le Voyage - composed by Michelle Gregoire
For Me, Formidable - arranged by Richard Gillis
Histoire d'antan - arranged by Jeff Presslaff
Je t’tattends - arranged by Richard Gillis
La vie en rose - arranged by Richard Gillis
J’entends le Moulin - arranged by Greg Crowe
La Nouvelle Nation - composed by Michelle Gregoire

Director – Richard Gillis
Saxes – Neil Watson, Paul Balcain, Lauren Teterenko, Ken Gold, Jonathan Stevens
Trombones – Joel Green, Francois Godere, Karen Carlson, D'Arcy McLean
Trumpets – Jeff Johnson, Darren Ritchie, Shane Hicks, Rick Boughton
Piano – Will Bonness; Bass – Gilles Fournier; Drums – Rob Siwik; Guitar – Jocelyn Gould
Vocals - Andrina Turenne & Ariane Jean  
Arrangers – Jeff Presslaff, Greg Crowe, Richard Gillis
Sound engineer – Larry Roy

Michelle Gregoire is a composer, jazz pianist and jazz educator in Calgary (https://michellegregoire.com/, https://michellegregoire.com/press/biographie-de-michelle-gregoire/). She has been a freelance musician since 1984 and has performed many concerts with the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra. She has a Master's in Jazz Performance from Florida State University and has been teaching at the Ambrose University in Calgary since 2014, while continuing to compose and perform, both as a leader and as a sideman. 
Compositrice de talent et interprète polyvalente, la pianiste Michelle Grégoire vit couramment à Calgary, originaire du Manitoba. Musicienne pigiste depuis 1984, elle obtient une maîtrise en musique à l’université Florida State (FSU), et s'est présentée plusieurs fois avec L'orchestre de Jazz de Winnipeg. Elle enseigne présentement à Ambrose University à Calgary, et continue d'être engagée comme musicienne, compositrice et directrice d'orchestre. 
 
Andrina Turenne (https://www.andrinaturenne.com/) is an established singer, songwriter and musician with strong ties to her Francophone-Métis roots and her home community of Winnipeg. She has toured on five continents, performed at several major international festivals, and is currently working on her solo project. 

Ariane Jean is poised, gentle, and ripples with an intuitive, emotional nature. Her intimate, sometimes melancholy jazz, ambient, and pop-infused songs tell of anger and forgetting, of shedding one’s skin, and finding refuge in imaginary worlds. Her eponymous EP is expected on October 16th of 2021 under her stage name, Sala.
Ariane Jean. Ancienne membre de Chic Gamine (lauréat d’un Prix Juno) et Madrigaïa, s’exprime dans des tons clairs, des nuances subtiles dans ses compositions aux influences de musiques pop, jazz et ambiantes. Ariane lance son premier EP sous le nom d’artiste Sala en automne 2020.


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Music is an agent of hope. A dynamic and valuable device that helps us to heal and to bring us together. The First Peoples of Canada understood this and used music to reunite, resolve and reconcile.  In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that WJO activities take place on Treaty Territory – land that was maintained and earnestly cared for by Indigenous peoples before European settlement.  Manitoba is the original lands of Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and is the homeland of the Métis Nation.  We acknowledge that Winnipeg benefits daily from Treaty 3 water that comes from Shoal Lake 40.  It is with sincere sentiment that we recognize the mistakes of our recent and distant past.  In working towards a Canada that benefits us all, we commit to seeking a greater understanding of Canada’s diverse cultural relationships through continued work with Indigenous communities; we commit to live in ways that honour and respect the treaties that were made on these territories; and we commit to stewarding the land in harmony for all who will come after us.
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