Quinn Bachand is swinging into JazzFest

By medicinehatnews on June 6, 2019.

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Some people aren’t made to stay in one place, always desiring to be on the move, exploring and travelling. Wanderlust, they call it. Quinn Bachand is afflicted with a musical wanderlust of sorts, which actually causes the more common wanderlust is his life as well.

The past few months have already seen Bachand in B.C., Quebec, Australia, the U.S. and back to B.C. He’s played what he calls “indie-folk-trad” music,  “classical newgrass” and did recordings for a software company.

Bachand wouldn’t have it any other way.

“I wasn’t really made to do one style. I don’t want to say it’s boring but sometimes its nice to just change it up and I real’y love that,+IB0AnQ- Bachand said last week.

You can probably tell by now Bachand is in a lot of different musical groups. So which one is coming to Medicine Hat JazzFest on June 28? That would be Quinn Bachand’s Brishen, which will be on the Espalande Terrace at 2 p.m. The Studio Theatre is the backup venue.

The group itself has had a sense of musical wanderlust since its inception. Bachand said they started as authentic gypsy-style jazz, moved into 1940s jazz and 1950s pop and then took a little something from the creative production styles of the 1960s.

“The albums we have out are pretty well a mix of pop country music songs with the instrumentation of sometimes a gypsy jazz or western swing group,” Bachand said, referencing Django Reinhardt and Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys as influences. “It’s a mix of different styles but I guess the root of it comes from the beginning where we started with the gypsy jazz stuff.”

Reinhardt and Wills were early influences of Bachand and continue to be today.

“I fell in love with first Bob Wills and then when I found Django it really hit it right on the money for me and I fell in love with it,” he said. “Every time I listen to any of those old recordings it brings back nostalgic memories and I love the music.”

His touring schedule is packed, but that doesn’t mean Bachand doesn’t have time for the studio. He recently recorded an album with friends from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, an album he’s promoting this summer. You know what that means.

“We’re excited to have that new music for everyone in Medicine Hat,” Bachand said.

Tickets are available online at tixx.ca, by calling 403+AC0-502+AC0-8777, and in person at the Esplanade box office or the Medicine Hat Mall customer service desk. Full festival passes are also available.

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