Manatee

Manatee

 Guelph, Ontario, CAN
BandJazzAfropop

Manatee is a Guelph based, 11-piece improvising ensemble that mixes wild sounds, danceable beats, massive horn lines, and audiences as closely together as possible. The group uses hand signals to negotiate their way through improvised pieces of music, and invites audiences to control their performances by learning and making those same signals. Manatee takes cues from traditional, free, and modern jazz, afro-beat, hip-hop, pan-idiomatic improv, sound-painting, radical Jewish music and lots more.