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Macy Gray played The Button Factory Dublin with support coming from Toshín. Opening the show was Dublin pop-funk singer Toshín, usually a full band but tonight was only a duo, Tosin Bankole and a multi-instrumentalist playing keys / bass and doing backing vocals.Telling us at one point how in the past she didn’t love herself …

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CANADIAN jazz/soul/groove octet Busty and the Bass came together during their first week as students on the jazz program at Montreal’s McGill University back in 2011.  Beginning as an instrumental act, they played any and every gig they could, taking $100 for a three-hour set or exchanging tunes for wine and hors d’oeuvres at a …

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Possessing one of the most instantly recognisable voices in music, Macy Gray has veered into unfamiliar waters for her upcoming ‘Stripped’ album, out on September 9th via Chesky Records. Bringing in some of the best jazz sidemen money can buy in drummer Ari Hoenig (Joshua Redman), trumpeter Wallace Roney (Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis), guitarist Russell …

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