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Shuffle Demons Kick Off The
TD Toronto Jazz Festival
Shops at Don Mills – June 22 at 8pm

The legendary Shuffle Demons kick off the TD Toronto Jazz Festival at Shops at Don Mills this Friday, June 22 at 8:00pm in the Town Square.

The legend of the Shuffle Demons is well known to Canadians. Beginning in September 1984 with veteran street sax player Demon Richard Underhill pleasing the pedestrian multitudes at the corner of Yonge and Bloor in Toronto, the Shuffle Demons quickly evolved into an immensely popular street band. Drawing hordes of hipsters to their street gigs with their wild playing and exotic wardrobe, the Demons (Mike Murley, Stich Wynston, Jim Vivian, Dave Parker and Richard Underhill) next took their caustic collection of musical majesties and travesties inside and began pleasing bunches of boppers in Toronto clubs. 

More touring and more albums followed and soon the Shuffle Demons were playing to packed houses around the world with a new line-up featuring Perry White and George Koller, and wearing brand new demon duds by Kurt Swinghammer. The Shuffle Demons released 6 albums and 7 videos in their 23 year career and have played 1000s of shows at every major jazz and folk festival in Canada during 20 Canadian tours. They toured Europe 15 times playing from Estonia to Italy, from the Netherlands to Norway, from Switzerland to Sweden, from Germany to Belgium.

For additional information, please visit www.shopsatdonmills.ca or www.torontojazz.com or call 416-447-0618.