Vernaculars explores shared histories in music drawing from jazz and creative music to urban and tribal vocabularies, leading to inspirations for flights into the future. We also find inspiration in our diasporic identities and give voice to these through original compositions contributed by each member of the band. For this Rootstock Arts show at Wyldflowr Arts, we are performing an entire set of Francis Wong's compositions under a program entitled Wong Works! This ensemble has performed as part of the Directions in Music Making by Asian Americans (+1 Canadian) Improvisers series co-curated by Wong and Trinidad, at Jazz at the Make Out Room, and at Bird and Beckett.

Vernaculars is:
Karl Evangelista, guitar
Francis Wong, tenor saxophone
Chris Trinidad, bass guitar, synth bass
Jimmy Biala, drum set, percussion

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