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Doors: 7 p.m.
Doors: 7 p.m.
$7 at the door, $5 for Connexion members with gallery issued I.D.
Doors: 7 p.m.
$7 at the door, $5 for Connexion members with gallery issued I.D.
Doors: 7 p.m.
$7 at the door, $5 for Connexion members with gallery issued I.D.
Doors: 7 p.m.
$7 at the door, $5 for Connexion members with gallery issued I.D.
Doors: 7 p.m.
$7 at the door, $5 for Connexion members with gallery issued I.D.
Doors: 7 p.m.
$7 at the door, $5 for Connexion members with gallery issued I.D.
Doors: 8 p.m.
Advance Tickets available at Backstreet Records, Westminster Books and Reads Newsstand for $12
$15 at the door, $12 for Connexion members with gallery issued I.D.
Cover: $5
Doors: 7 PM — All ages, wet / dry
Cover: $5 for non-contributors
Doors: 8 PM — All ages, wet / dry
Cover: $10
Doors: 2 PM — All ages, wet / dry
and…
Cover: $5
Doors: 7 PM
This promises to be a magical evening, lush and pulsing with life-affirming songs. Tim Issac’s trancey beats and psychedelic multi-layered cello will wrap a groove around Nina Khosla’s gentle and sensual voice. Harmonium, flute and marimba join in to add a further ethereal dimension to their beautifully charged sound.
Doors: 7 PM
Show: 8 PM
Admission: $10
Listen: lovestorm.ca
Show: 7:30 PM
Admission: $10
Show: 7:00 PM
Admission: $8
Show: 7:00 PM
Doors: 7:30 PM
Show: 8 PM
Admission: $8 at the door or $15 gets you admission and CD
Doors open at 7:30 PM, show starts at 8 PM — $10 admission
(Poster courtesy of the artist)
Watch: http://www.youtube.com/petuniamusic
Listen: http://www.petuniamusic.com
“… he has a unique, surreal style all of his own… His live performances have been likened to an Avant-Country night club scene from a David Lynch movie!” – Bonanza Radio, London UK
“… hillbilly-flavoured-swing inflected-ragtime-goodtime-thunderously rolling-one-of-a-kind-you-don’t-want-to-miss-this-sort-of-a-show” – Peterborough Examiner
“Real underground Music. Foot-tapping country & western laced with rock and jazz.” – The New York Post, NY
“When Petunia yodels, the crowd just about levitates on a cloud of barely disguised hysteria.” – The Grand Forks Gazette, BC
“With his lonesome-whippoorwill yodel and Eisenhower-threads, Petunia conjured up the ghost of the late Hank Williams” – Georgia Straight, Vancouver BC
Petunia has been swoonin’, swingin’, croonin’, and bringin’ ‘em home to bars, churches, kitchens, street corners, subway stations… wherever the wind has taken him for the past 10 years. His ‘rousing organic sound’ is a blend of musical styles wandering freely from country to jazz to blues to French cabaret to Mexican folk to bluegrass all with some yodeling in between.
Labelized as ‘mesmerizing… stunning… dazzling… heart-rending… heart-mending… life-giving’, Petunia writes fabulous hit songs that send you on wacky roller-coaster rides through yodeling serenades, wild electric love songs, haunted houses of blue, and back again with a soft lullaby.
Petunia will be making his return to the East Coast in June for solo dates throughout New Brunswick and Nova Scotia before heading back to the West Coast for summer festivals. Joining Petunia for these shows will be slam poet/washtub bass performer The Minimalist Jugband from Vancouver.
Tour Dates:
Doors Open at 7:30 PM, show starts at 8 PM. $7 admission.
(Images from Paddlefest 2009 — Photos Chris Snowden)
About Gordon Gets Lost:
Going to a Gordon Gets Lost show is like being at an electrified kitchen party. All the elements are there; great friends, talented musicians playing for the love of it, and that feeling that you just witnessed something special, even if you had seen it before.
Over the last 5 years GGL have travelled both time and space together and separately to move forward as musicians as well as human beings. The line up may have changed but the philosophy has stayed the same. ‘Provide a comfortable atmosphere, make em dance, and they’ll come back’.
We’re happy to announce the newest line up for the GGL saga; Jay Merrill (guitar, vocals) Mike (mumble) Humble (percussion), Tyler McGee (drums, flutes and vocals) and our newest member Mike Glaze (bass). We’ll be spending the next couple of months writing new material and reworking old favorites to be in tip top shape for festival season.
We’re awful excited about the future of Gorgon Gets Lost, with the addition of Mikey on the bass, we feel we’re finally ready to become a house hold name in the Canadian Jam Band Scene, bringing the east coast hip disco to the masses.
Doors open at 7:30, show starts at 8 PM. $10 admission
(Both images courtesy of the artist)
Showtime for this performance will be 8 PM. Admission is $10 and there will be refreshments by donation.
(Photos by Meredith Snider)
Pierre Bastien (born Paris, 1953) post-graduated in eighteenth-century French literature at University Paris-Sorbonne. In 1977 he built his first musical machinery. For the next ten years he has been composing for dance companies and playing with Pascal Comelade. In the meantime he was constantly developing his mechanical orchestra. Since 1987 he concentrates on it through solo performances, sound installations, recordings and collaborations with such artists as Pierrick Sorin, Karel Doing, Jean Weinfeld, Robert Wyatt or Issey Miyake.
“A composer’s dream: a fail-safe orchestra at one’s fingertips obeying ever so gently to his every command: a timeless sounding orchestra, both futuristic and slightly dada, conjuring ancient traditions in its surprisingly sensuous music. This is, in a nutshell what Pierre Bastien’s “Mecanium” is all about, a daydream of sorts that he has successfully pursued since 1976. The musicians of his orchestra are machines. And the idea behind it is simple, efficient and poetic: to have traditional instruments (Chinese lute, Morrocan bendir, Javanese saron, koto, violin, sanza, etc.) played by a mechanical instrument made of meccano pieces and recycled turntable motors. These hybrid and self-playing sound sculptures perform a series of short pieces, charming and hypnotic.” – Michel F. Côté
Pierre Bastien is also performing in Moncton at the RE:FLUX Festival and in Halifax as part of the Obey Festival. His website is: www.pierrebastien.com.
Showtime for this performance will be 8 PM. Admission is $10 and there will be refreshments by donation. For information on Surgery Series, Surgery Radio and all of its elements please contact Eric Hill per_mutations@yahoo.com
Doors open at 7:30 PM and show starts at 8 PM — $15 admission
(Photo by Meredith Snider)
The Olympic Symphonium are a Canadian trio of multi-instrumentalists hailing from Fredericton, New Brunswick. They are re-releasing their debut album remixed, remastered and with additional instrumentation on May 18th and performing select dates around the East Coast throughout the Spring/Summer months. They recently returned from a West Coast tour with Catherine MacLellan and are working away on their 3rd album, to be released in early 2011.
“A thing of homespun beauty.” – Line of Best Fit, UK
“…a bit like a hot bath: a bit hard to get into at first, but once you let its warm comforts envelop you, it’s hard to pull yourself out.” – Vu Weekly, Edmonton
“…amaudlin, reflective pleasure to experience. More please. ” – Americana UK
The reputation of Isaac & Blewett has grown over the years. Determined not to be restricted by labels, they’ve worked hard to establish a reputation for innovative music, eclectic performances & honest song-writing. Originally an acoustic blues act, they have broadened their sound, spinning out into exciting musical territory. From a rural perch on the Fundy shore near Alma, they have stretched their sonic palette. Eastern scales & melody, a wah-wah fuelled cello and a guitar/banjo mantra all manifest themselves in their soulful and raw music. Isaac & Blewett have come a long way since playing in local clubs in 1997 & are now focussed on the world of theatres, festivals, & concert series. They have earned the respect of their peers and have a gift for entertaining and captivating audiences of all ages. Their show is an intimate and interactive journey.
7:30 PM. Tickets for the concert are $20 and available at the door.
For those interested in learning more about how to play jazz guitar, Amy will also be offering a free workshop at the Gallery at 5.30 PM. Gallery Connexion is located at 440 York Street (in the Chestnut Complex) in downtown Fredericton.
Amy Brandon graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa with a B.Mus. in jazz performance. While living in Ottawa she studied jazz guitar with Mike Rud, Garry Elliott and Roddy Ellias and performed at a variety of venues and festivals in Ottawa including the Ottawa International Jazz Festival. After moving to Nova Scotia in 2007 she began working as a freelance musician and performs frequently as a soloist.
For more information, contact:
Amy Brandon
22 Crowell Drive
Truro, NS B2N 5N4
902.986.5299
www.amybrandon.ca
amy.brandon@rogers.com
Klarka Weinwurm & Babette Hayward
Doors open at 7:30 PM, show starts at 8 PM — Admissions is Pay What You Can
(Photos by Meredith Snider)
Fredericton’s Motion Ensemble is a chamber music group based in New Brunswick, Canada that has been in operation for more than a decade. Their repertoire is an eclectic mix of post-classical and experimental music. Motion’s music often utilizes electronics or visual media. The group has been presenting its own concerts since 1998, now with series in Fredericton, Sackville and Saint John; they also reach thousands of school children through their educational projects.
For this performance they will be featuring new works by Allison Cameron (Toronto) and Gerd Aurell (Stockholm). The line up for May 7th will be Helen Pridmore, voice, Nadia Francavilla, violin, Andrew Miller, bass, Karin Aurell, fluteand Richard Hornsby, clarinets
Short films of an experimental nature will be projected and given a live soundtrack by improvising musicians who will also be seeing the films for the first time. May 7th will feature two short films by Eric Hill & Jennifer Chiasson with musical participation by members of Motion Ensemble and invited guests.
Showtime will be 8 PM. Admission for the evening is Pay What You Can. There will be refreshments by donation.
$10 Admission — Special CD Prices
Geordie Haley is an acclaimed guitarist, composer, improviser and educator. Since his arrival in Halifax in the fall of 2008, he has been involved in a myriad of musical projects like Paul Cram’s Upstream consorts, the 6.0 Sextet and Guerrilla Orchestra; Jamie Gatti’s Riot Squad; Norm Adams’ Timeless Pulses with Jerry Granelli; Tom Easley’s Mingus Magus; and Paul Barrett’s Back Alley Big Band. The improvising electronic trio ZOKUGAKU featuring Geordie on guitar, Tim Crofts on keys and Doug Cameron on drums is about to release a recording of spontaneous compositions. In January 2010, Geordie was a featured performer with the Canadian New Music Network’s Conference playing with Symphony Nova Scotia and in a solo concert.
During his 12 years in Toronto, Geordie was actively involved in the new music and improvising scenes and released five albums of original compositions, for which he was recognized with a nomination for the Louis Applebaum Jazz Composition Award. Always looking for new sounds and challenges, Geordie has toured and recorded with some of Canada’s leading new music progenitors. He has been a co-curator of the groundbreaking new music series’ Strange Folk and Leftover Daylight.
“Sculptures” is a prepared guitar extravaganza produced with Jean Martin of Barnyard Records. This album marks a return to using the studio as a creative tool. It contains wondrous new textures drawn from subtle manipulations of strings, slides, e-bow, capos and dobro bridges.
On April 3rd Geordie will be joined by Fredericton’s guitar and improvising guru Mark Carmody ,who will open the night with his APOTROPION (defence against evil influenece) series of guitar compositions.Geordie will follow with a set of prepared guitar improvisations and spontaneous elaborations with themes from his Threnody cycle. Mark and Geordie will then do a duet improvisation,recalling and building from their legendary Exploding Meet “Circus of Disharmony” days , a prolific collaboration from the early 1990′s !
Admission: $10
Special CD Prices
Ken Aldcroft will be performing solo guitar as part of his 2010 Eastern Tour. Followed by a duo performance featuring Joel LeBlanc playing music from his recent release ‘Our Hospitality’.
$10 cover or $20 with CD.
Premiers with the launch of Joel Leblanc’s solo CD followed by performances by Christ Giles and the Winter Coats.
Bringing to you music that’s current alive and so new you’ll feel like you helped make it.
Sabor Latino is an independant band based in Fredericton performing both traditional and modern Latin music, infused with a healthy dose of Jazz and Funk. Their repertoire includes hits from acts like Buena Vista Social Club and Tito Puente, alternated with original numbers.
Sabor Latino’s band leader, bassist and vocalist, Cesar Morales has been entertaining audiences in Canada since 1991. He is a music graduate from The National Arts Centre in San Salvador, the capital of his native El Salvador, where he played Andean music with lead groups Xolotl and Amayulutl. During those years, he also played transverse flute with the Latin Jazz Ensemble and the National Young Symphony Orchestra. He also performed Cumbia, Salsa and Meringue as the front man for popular music groups such as Zunca, Yuca, Siembra and Salsa 86. After several years teaching music at the City Hall Cultural Centre, he relocated to New Brunswick due to the political instability of his home country.
Here in Canada he has played bass and flute in several theatrical productions, such as “You Are a Good Man Charlie Brown” and “Jesus Christ Superstar.” In 1994, he moved to Woodstock and started the group Border Crossing, alongside local musician John Thompson.
In1998, he decided to start his own Latin band with Sabor Latino, and after several years of hard work and dedication, the band claimed the 2004 Galaxy Rising Star award at the Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival in Fredericton. A new iteration of Sabor Latino, started in 2008, continues to gather accolades all across Atlantic Canada,
In 2005, Cesar released “Monologue,” a solo EP in which he performs all the instruments and vocals. He is currently the band director at Nashwaacsis and Devon middle schools, and the music instructor for the Multicultural Association of Fredericton.
Percussionist Juan Morales (Cesar’s younger brother, also from El Salvador) traces his musical roots to the vibrant folkloric rhythms of his mother land. However, it was not until he was well established in Canada that Juan started playing Latin percussion. It all began with his brother’s desire to start a Latin band, and the lack of musicians in New Brunswick with the required experience to play in that style. This situation drove Juan to take the chance and start learning the various elements of Latin percussion under his brother’s guidance.
Today Juan is a seasoned percussionist, having played congas for over 10 years and being a founding member of Sabor Latino, He has also performed with Alma Latina (from Halifax), Gummi Demilo, and local Fredericton acts The Time Beings and Dub Antenna.
Camilo Villamizar is a Fredericton-based, Colombian guitarist, singer and songwriter. Aside from his work with Sabor Latino, he is also the voice and guitar of indie band The Absolute Fiction, guitarist for local artist Rich Gloade, and an active solo performer. Camilo favours expression, texture and harmony in his playing, and is a strong supporter of digital technology in both live and recorded music.
Camilo’s involvement in music started early in life, and he made his first public appearance with a rock band at age 14. He continued performing and recording with local Colombian acts well into his twenties, playing lead guitar with Colombian bands La Satira and El Sotano and collaborating with solo artist Carlos Azdi. He would later somewhat change directions by joining the EAFIT University Jazz and Blues ensemble, recording additional guitars in the album Lo Que Pasa Aqui a Diario from Colombian band Octubre Negro, and producing the track Cafe Magdalena for the Lounge.CO compilation, which locally charted at number 2 for electronic music singles in… Colombia…
In a slight twist of irony, Canadian Sabor Latino is Camilo’s first Latin band. He joined in 2008, 3 years after immigrating to the country.
Camilo is largely a self-taught musician.
A percussionist and a euphonium player, Bill McIver grew up in New Mexico, where his parents started him on his musical journey. His connection with the Sabor Latino “book” is a mosaic comprised of the Brazilian and Cuban influences on African-American musical forms, the various Mexican musical styles that are heard in his home state, and his wholly incomplete and ongoing study of the myriad rhythms of the African Diaspora.
Bill has studied with Jeff Lundt, Jimmy “June Bug” Jackson, Eric Robinette and Greg Harrison. He was a member of the percussion section of the Harambee Dance Ensemble at the University of Colorado in Boulder, during which time he participated in an influential workshop given by the legendary Cuban folkloric group Los Muñequitos de Matanzas.
Bill has performed in a variety of settings in Fredericton, including the University of New Brunswick Concert Band, the Fredericton Chamber Orchestra, the group SpeakEasy, and experimental percussion duets with John Born. He wanted to play with the Morales brothers ever since he saw them perform in 2005.
Julia Ramirez, singer, melodica player and media/stage manager for Sabor Latino, started her music and artistic experience at the early age of 3, training in folkloric dance such as Cumbia, Bambuco and Salsa in Colombia (her homeland). At the age of 11, Julia decided to try her luck at signing and playing the Melodica with Tuna groups, a Spanish festive tradition (including some 40 participants, in her case) which involves the performance Pasodobles and other popular styles while dancing to choreography. During her high school years, she was also involved with her school’s Gregorian Choir, a rock band, and the Colombian traditional group Cantares. In university, Julia continued her music journey by joining her alma mater’s choir and later the Medellin Polyphonic Study, with whom she performed Handel’s Messiah, Queen Symphonic, Carmina Burana and other classical and contemporary works. Julia is the newest member of Sabor Latino, having joined in late 2009.
Gallery Connexion is an artist-run center in Fredericton, NB and presents contemporary art practices, including visual, performance, music, literary, and inter-disciplinary art. Gallery Connexion is seeking an Executive Director who is a creative innovator, has a passion for the visual arts and is committed to high quality, dynamic programming. As the successful candidate you will [...]
Artists and curators are invited to submit proposals for upcoming exhibitions in the Rick Burns Gallery, Gallery Connexion’s main exhibition space. Proposals will be for March 2013 to February 2014 programming. Deadline for proposals: March 31, 2012. Email submissions must be received by 9pm. Post submissions (on CD/DVD only) must be postmarked by the deadline [...]
Gallery Connexion’s Annual General Meeting will be held at 7 pm on Thursday, March 29, 2012 at Gallery Connexion, 440 York Street, Fredericton, NB (entrance from the main parking lot at the junction of Victoria and York Streets) Please join us for a review of the past year’s activities, an overview of the year to [...]
