Aeolian Summer Music Festival

Jeremy Ledbetter Trio

Forged in a cauldron of raging, inspiring contemporary jazz, the Jeremy Ledbetter Trio pushes the boundaries of jazz and world music, providing an undiluted display of rampaging energy and captivating musicianship. Audiences must exercise caution. People who see this band are rarely the same again. If the Jeremy Ledbetter Trio were an inanimate object, it would be a runaway train. The Jeremy Ledbetter Trio’s second album, “Gravity”, has stormed out to over a million worldwide streams and a JUNO Award for Jazz Album of the Year. “Gravity” sees Jeremy joined by Grammy-winning drummer Larnell Lewis (Snarky Puppy) and renowned electric bassist Rich Brown (Steve Coleman’s Five Elements), who offer the perfect counterpart to Ledbetter’s iconoclastic energy at the piano.

Tom Lavin & The Legendary Powder Blues

For over four decades Powder Blues has been Canada’s leading blues band. The mix of swing, blues, jazz, rock & roll and r & b has an appeal so wide that people from seven to seventy swing side by side at a Powder Blues concert. Over the years the band has toured non-stop through Canada, the US and overseas, sharing their feel-good music.

Powder Blues debut album, ‘Uncut’, was ignored by major labels who said there was ‘no market for the blues’. Undiscouraged, the band sent it to radio stations whose switchboards lit up with calls asking, ‘who’s that?’ After selling 30,000 copies in a few weeks, the same record labels competed to sign the band. To date Powder Blues have sold over a million records worldwide.

Highlights include winning Canada’s Juno, headlining the Montreux Switzerland Jazz Festival, winning the Blues Foundation Award in Memphis, Tennessee and touring the US and Europe with legends like Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, James Brown, Albert Collins, James Cotton and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Leader, Tom Lavin wrote many of the band’s best-known songs including ‘Doin’ It Right’ (‘On the Wrong Side of Town’) and ‘Boppin With the Blues’. Born in Chicago, where he played with local bands and blues legends, Tom moved to Vancouver where he worked as studio musician, song writer, band leader, record producer and film composer.

Tom has won BCMIA awards for ‘Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter and Producer of the Year’, a Juno award for ‘Best New Band’ and the American W.C. Handy award. He has over a dozen gold, and platinum records for Powder Blues, Prism, April Wine, Long John Baldry, Amos Garrett, and many others.

2026 is the band’s 48th Anniversary. Their more than dozen CD titles and DVD continue to sell world-wide making Tom Lavin & the Legendary Powder Blues one of Canada’s longest-standing musical ambassadors.

 

Jim Cuddy Trio

Jim Cuddy has written many of the songs that have become indelible in the soundtrack of Canadian lives. As a solo artist and as one half of the creative core of Blue Rodeo, he has helped define the sound of Canadian music for more than four decades. Since Blue Rodeo’s formation in 1984, their music has resonated across generations, earning both critical acclaim and a devoted national audience.

Over the course of his career, Jim has received nearly every honour Canada can bestow upon a musician, including 15 JUNO Awards. He is a Member of the Order of Canada and, alongside his bandmates, has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, and a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame. Whether on stage, in the studio, or through his solo work, his songs continue to reflect a deep sense of place, connection, and craft.

Monkey House

Monkey House, the Juno-nominated quartet led by Emmy-winning songwriter Don Breithaupt, is an oasis of jazz harmony and pop smarts in a by-the-numbers world. Crashbox, the band’s latest release, features guest appearances by Michael Leonhart (Steely Dan), Drew Zingg (Boz Scaggs), and Marc Jordan. Five albums into its deal with Alma Records and Universal Music, Monkey House counts Tokyo as its top streaming city, Los Angeles as its second home, and Europe as its area of greatest growth. Its last two albums have topped the iTunes Jazz chart and entered Billboard in the Top 15.

Tickets:

Bundle of 3 $117.60 (This bundle does not include Jim Cuddy Trio.)

Jeremy Ledbetter Trio $39 Advanced $44 Doors

Tom Lavin and the Legendary Powder Blues $59 Advanced $64 Doors

Jim Cuddy Trio $129 Advanced $139 Doors

Monkey House $49 Advanced $54 Doors

How to get tickets?

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Date & Time:

June 25 – 28, 2026

Jeremy Ledbetter Trio | Thu Jun 25, 2026 @ 7:30 PM
Tom Lavin & The Legendary Powder Blues | Fri Jun 26, 2026 @ 7:30 PM
Jim Cuddy Trio | Sat Jun 27, 2026 @ 8:00 PM
Monkey House | Sun Jun 28, 2026 @ 8:00 PM

 

Venue:

The Aeolian, 795 Dundas St, London

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