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Jazz Fest day 10, the last day of the festival, had me arrive at the TD Stage at around 18h25, I found a somewhat younger woman alone wandering around a little in my immediate vicinity, I ended up engaging with her in conversation for the half hour we were waiting for the show at 19h to start. That was very pleasant, we talked about shows we had attended, what we liked about them and so on.

At 19h, Sparklmami began her show. Her backing band was excellent in all of their skilled positions, she herself was a little odd, seemingly stream of conciousness word play bounded by also some singing. On one hand she wore a black glove with the glove's fingers extended a hand length beyond the end of her own fingers. I mostly enjoyed the show due to the band surrounding her.

At the end of that show I sped, as one can between thousands of people moving in random directions, to the Rogers stage to catch the Sue Foley show. She is a highly skilled guitarist herself and had a good band including a second guitarist who mostly played rhythm behind her, but who also soloed at times when she would allow for it. She soloed so much, if we added up her solo time it probably was about 3/7ths of her one hour allotment. The backing band did well to keep a great rhythm behind her, though, the bass guitarist looks a little bored at times.

Once Sue Foley's show ended, I stayed at the Rogers stage and moved to be right up against the front gate of the stage for the next show that would start in 90 minutes. While waiting there I could hear Etran de L'Air on the adjecent Rio Tinto stage next door; and they sounded really great; maybe in a future year I will make an effort to be at their stage for their show.

The last show of this year's Jazz Fest that I attended was Chicha Libre, the alternative was a rap show by Smino that given my preference, I was happy to miss out on. Chicha Libre is from Brooklyn, but each of them are also from various countries like Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and the guy in front from France. They played Peruvian music that also sounded a little bit like klezmer music without a central and south American angle. Unfortunately the drummer from my vantage point was often hidden by the main singer and ukelele player up front. The video below I try to show her.