Alex Bird & The Jazz Mavericks
July 5 & 6 @ 8:00 PM

Alex Bird: Vocals

Ewen Farncombe: Piano

Jesse Ryan: Sax

Julian Anderson-Bowes: Bass

Norbert Botos: Drums

Over the last few years, ALEX BIRD has become one of the most exciting names on the Canadian Jazz scene. With praise from around the globe and alongside songwriting & piano partner EWEN FARNCOMBE (and their band “The Jazz Mavericks”), Bird has created timeless and heartfelt originals for a modern audience. This talented team has produced something that is completely unique: four original & independent albums. Their second and third albums were nominated at the 2022 & 2024 JUNO Awards for “Best Vocal Jazz”. 

In the Summer of 2024, Bird & Farncombe began releasing Casanova, Bossa Nova, Lover Man, an all-original Bossa Nova collaboration with Latin Grammy Award Winner and Grammy Nominee Cheo, the founding member of one of the biggest bands to come out of Venezuela, the jazz/funk band Los Amigos Invisibles, discovered by David Byrne. 

“Every now and again, an act emerges from the cosmos and shakes up the planet. One of those groundbreaking bands is Alex Bird and the Jazz Mavericks. Bird and his group of talented players are rewriting the textbook for vocal-infused Jazz.” - Metronome Magazine 

Bird was adopted from Romania and came to Canada at six weeks old. He literally grew up with the classics. Starting at the age of two, he was taken to hang around the Toronto Jazz scene and had the opportunity to see and meet many of the greats along the way: Tony Bennett, Diana Krall, Ray Brown, Oscar Peterson, Mel Tormé, Ray Charles...the list goes on. Without even knowing it, his musical training developed, sitting around at smoky Jazz clubs into the wee small hours of the morning.