DELEGATES
ARRANGER/COMPOSER/CONDUCTOR
JACK ETCHEGARY
Jack Etchegary is a freelance musician from St. John’s, NL. He has been actively involved in the St. John’s arts community as a member of the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra (NSO), the Quintessential Vocal Ensemble (QVE), as well as several local bands. As a conductor, he has worked with several groups including the NSO, QVE, the MUN Wind Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra, the MUN Festival Choir and Chamber Choir, the Gower Community Band, and the St. John’s Gay Men’s Chorus. Jack’s work as an arranger has included arrangements for the NSO, QVE and Tim Baker with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. As a drummer with Soap Opera and guitarist with Property, Jack has performed across Newfoundland and Eastern Canada including appearances at Sound Symposium, Lawyna Vawnya, POP Montreal, NXNE, Halifax Pop Explosion, Kazoo! Fest, Flourish Festival, MusicNL Week and the East Coast Music Awards. Most recently, he has been playing drums for Len O’Neill, Andrew Smith, Kelly McMichael and Nico Paulo. Jack holds a Masters of Music in conducting (2022) and a Bachelors of Music in composition (2018) from Memorial University of Newfoundland & Labrador, and is currently completing an MA in Music Theory at the University of Western Ontario.
POP MONTREAL
JESS BARRY
Jess Barry is an arts worker from St. John's, Ktaqmkuk, living in Tiohtià :ke/Montréal. She works as Executive Director at POP Montreal and is a member of the band Taupe. She is interested in community development and supporting emerging music.
CB NUIT
KELSEY STREET
Kelsey Street is a L’nu artist from and currently based in Elmastukwek, Ktaqmkuk Territory (Bay of Islands, NL). In 2019, she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Grenfell Campus Memorial University. Street has a multidisciplinary practice— and often centred around collaboration— working in a variety of forms such as sculptural beadwork, textile/craft, printmaking, and site-specific performance/installation.
FORWARD MUSIC GROUP
KYLE CUNJAK
Kyle Cunjak is a founding member of Forward Music Group, a full-service, ethically-focused arts organization established in 2007, and has run the company for over a decade out of Halifax. An exhibited visual artist and multi-instrumentalist who has recorded with Jenn Grant, Motherhood, Michael Feuerstack, The Good Lovelies, Nico Paulo, David Myles, Justin Rutledge, and Catherine MacLellan among many others, Cunjak brings a unique perspective to the company putting artist priorities first. He is also a core member of New Brunswick folk group The Olympic Symphonium, which co-organizes the annual Shivering Songs festival in Fredericton.
FORWARD MUSIC GROUP
MICHELLE YORKE
Michelle handles all mail-orders, distribution product orders, and inquiries regarding anything postal for FMG. With a background in online orders and shipping as part of her family’s photography business, Carsand Mosher, she is incredibly capable in both customer relations and fulfillment.
ARTIST
NELSON WHITE
Nelson White is an artist and member of the Flat Bay First Nation Band (No'kmaq Village) in Newfoundland. Nelson attended the Visual Arts program at the Bay St. George Community College in Stephenville, NL and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, NS. Nelson exhibits throughout Canada and the US in both group and solo touring shows such as Tukien (Awken) which toured 5 institutional galleries. His work has been featured on CBC’s The National and in Visual Arts News. His paintings are collected across North America, including the provincial art collection of NL, NS, PEI and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. He was named ArtsNL Artist of the Year for 2020 and the winner of 2022 VANL CARFAC Excellence in Visual Arts Milestone Award.
CRIP RAVE
RENEE DUMARESQUE
Renee Dumaresque lives in between St. John’s and Toronto and works as a community organizer, psychotherapist and PhD candidate at the intersection of creative, critical, and chaotic thought. They are a co-founder of Crip Rave, a Toronto-based event platform and consulting hub prioritizing Crip, Mad, Deaf, Disabled, and Sick partygoers and talent within safer and more accessible rave spaces. They are also a co-founder and long-time organizer of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Toronto, and a Board member of the Social Justice Co-Operative of Newfoundland and Labrador. Their writing on music and sound, queerness, disability justice, race, and colonization can be found in open-source publications including, Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice, Journal of Feminist Scholarship, and New Sociology: Journal of Critical Praxis.
NOCTURNE: ART AT NIGHT
SHUVANJAN KARMAKER
Shuvanjan Karmaker is an artist & curator. Shuvanjan works as an independent music director, leading both small and large ensembles to showcase music that intersects the socio political sound of South Asian diaspora and Black American Music.
Shuvanjan is the festival curator for Nocturne 2024. They’ve selected the theme of Microcosm as a platform for artists to engage with Nocturne and over 60,000 people who visit the festival.
For Nocturne 2023, Shuvanjan was a collaborator on the project IN THIS HOUSE, which explored histories of House Music.
Shuvanjan joined the Nocturne team, bringing experience working both as an administrator/facilitator and performing artist in festivals and arts organizations, including, Everyseeker, SuddenlyListen, Mayworks Festival, Open Waters Festival, Evolve Festival (NS & NB), and Inspire Festival & FLASH (Moncton) and Halifax Jazz Festival.
They believe their job is to constantly be creative, activate spaces and, facilitate creative processes.
CRIP RAVE
STEFANA FRATILA
Stefana Fratila is a Romanian-born artist, composer and sound designer based in Toronto, Canada. She is also a DJ and co-founder of Crip Rave, an event platform and consulting hub showcasing and prioritizing Crip, Disabled, Deaf, Mad, and Sick body-minds within safer and more accessible rave spaces. She created Sononaut, 8 open-source VST plug-ins that emulate the atmospheric conditions of the planets in our solar system in collaboration with NASA scientists and Jen Kutler. She has exhibited and performed her work internationally, including at MoMA and e-flux (New York, USA), Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Paris, France).
DOMINIONATED
TIA ALANDRA
Tia Alandra (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and arts administrator genetically disposed to elude definition in 200 characters or less. Tia specializes in fostering connection, creating opportunity for collective growth, and advocating for the human right to express.