Transition Concert: Jarmo Jalava and the North American Fair Trade Ensemble

Have you heard this song about the Transition movement? if you haven't, come on out and hear it! Jarmo Jalava’s new single, Transition Town is a rocking 21st century environmental anthem that travels from apathy to awareness, and soars to inspired activism and hope. It's a cross of Aztec rythms, funk, rock and tango. (Listen on YouTube: http://bit.ly/qjlEKx)

Transition Toronto will be present to inform people of the Transition activities here in Toronto.

Celebrate a Mexican-flavoured Thanksgiving with nordic seasonings with Finnish-Canadian world-folk singer-songwriter and ecologist, Jarmo Jalava, and his North American Fair Trade Ensemble (NAFTE), featuring: 

*Mexico’s Charly Peña on flute, sax and traditional Aztec wind & percussion
*Award-winning author (Honeymoon in Purdah: an Iranian Journey) and performer Alison Wearing www.alisonwearing.com, on vocals, banjo and funny-bone
*Juno award-winner Mark Mariash (Royal Wood, Wailin’ Jennies, Ron Sexsmith) on drums, and
*Stratford jazz-man Paul Shilton on upright bass

Featuring special guests son jarocho group Cafe Con Pan:

Kali Niño - vocals,dancing,jarana
Alec Dempster - vocals,guitarra de son
Chris Banks - bass
Nick Storring - cello

www.cafeconpan.ca

Jarmo has spent the better part of the last decade living in an idyllic mountainside village in Mexico. The trilingual songwriter/poet (recipient of three Ontario Arts Council Writer’s Reserve grants and past editor with the international literary journal Exile) is currently at work on his 4th album.

The venue is the lovely Lula Lounge. Dinner starts at 6:30 PM and the show starts at 8 PM. This event is intended to help raise awareness of the global Transition Town movement, building resilient communities in the face of peak oil and peak world resources, with a brief presentation from Transition Toronto. 

Admission: $12 (advance by Paypal), or $15 at the door + HST. Dinner reservations guarantee seating: 416-588-0307 or reserve@lula.ca. More details at:

Hear Jarmo’s new single “Transition Town” and see the video at www.jarmojalava.com

For info or interviews contact Catherine Hume: 647.299.5549, catherinehume@rogers.com