Feven Kidane plays Vancouver Public Library
On Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 2pm, I joined trumpeter Feven Kidane to play the Vancouver Public Library Central Branch's new daytime music series, Rooftop Rhythms. Admission was free of charge on the library's rooftop terrace for one set of music. With me in the band were Noah Franche-Nolan on keyboards and Yoro Noukoussi on percussion.
Rooftop Rhythms: Feven Kidane
Enjoy free jazz-ish concerts every Thursday afternoon in July on the Central Library’s picturesque rooftop terrace! Feven Kidane is an Ethiopian-Canadian composer, trumpeter, bassist, and electronic musician. She adheres to the traditions of Black American Music (“jazz”) of the ’60s and ’70s, studying its foundational components of decolonization, creation, spirituality, and self-liberation. As an improviser in Vancouver’s free scene, she has worked alongside veterans of the genre including Douglas R. Ewart, as well as being a member of the New Orchestra Workshop Society (est. 1977). She also makes electronic music inspired by both her Blackness and video games of her youth under the moniker thehabeshaman. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear world class musicians performing in one of Vancouver’s most beautiful public spaces. - This program is generously funded by VPL Foundation donors. Registration is recommended but not required to attend.
This show was my second time playing the series as a side musician, even though it had only been running for a month. I joined Madeleine Elkins there on July 3.