Harry Vetro

Canadian drummer and composer Harry Vetro (b. 1995) is a graduate of the University of Toronto Jazz program. Vetro leads an active performing career playing at major jazz festivals and venues across Canada: Jazz YYC (Calgary, AB), Yardbird Jazz Fest (Edmonton, AB), Toronto Jazz Festival, Ottawa Jazz Festival, Rex Hotel & Jazz Bistro (Toronto, ON), Jazz Room (Waterloo, ON), Resonance Café (Montreal, QC). Vetro has been featured as a rising star drummer in the Ottawa and Sudbury jazz festivals in Ontario. He currently leads a monthly residency at The Tranzac (Toronto’s premiere creative music club,) featuring new compositions inspired by nature and landscape.

In 2017, as Canada celebrated 150 years of confederation, Vetro traveled coast to coast, visiting communities in Canada's six Indigenous cultural areas (Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, Plateau, Plains, and Eastern Woodlands) in an effort to connect with musicians and artists from different cultural backgrounds, and to better understand the land's long cultural history.

As a composer, Vetro utilizes traditional roots and new perspectives in the growing genre of contemporary jazz music. NORTHERN RANGER, Vetro’s debut album tells the story of his travels. Vetro melded his own style of improvised jazz with folk and classical influences to create a deeply personal statement, one that speaks to the country as a whole. Vetro’s album is currently fourth on the National Jazz charts in Canada and continues to gain international airplay from NYC. USA, to Toronto and across Canada.

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