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Jazz Fest day two, now knowing there is a show that starts at 17h, I left earlier so as to catch more of it. The band showing was the McGill Jazz Orchestra 1; it was nice to see these students, these young adults, playing as they did. More or less everyone got a turn to solo as they ran through a bunch of classic Jazz band songs.

Next was Campbell and Johnston, a band from Nova Scotia; it was cute that the lady of the duo spoke her DuoLingo French to us passably with a very anglophone accent. The crowd was appreciative and gave her feedback that she was doing well enough. This band had a strong guitar focused sound, they play mostly traditional rock sounding songs, including a few covers, one from the Rolling Stones and the other from Stevie Wonder. From my vantage point, the bass guitar player was directly behind the lead guitar play of the duo so I could hardly see him. Though, in a few spots in a few songs, the bass guitar player would mirror the lead guitar player and from my vantage point I could see both players hand on their strings on the neck of their instrument moving in sync.

The last show I went to on this day was to see Cymande, a large group that performed a variety of songs, often giving the brass players time to solo. The songs they chose to play all had good rhythm and dance-ability, in particular the bass player had really interesting bass lines which were very creative with each different song, but the same creative riff played through each song.