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Three Thursdays of Jazz: Thursday 1
Eric Chenaux + Double Suicide
Thursday, May 15, 2008, 10 PM
Eric Chenaux plays guitars, ballads, electronics and tunes as an improviser and songwriter with an affection for balladeers like Betty Carter, Willie Nelson, Sade, Archie Shepp and Carla Bley.
Chenaux plays with, and writes tunes for, the jazz quintet Drumheller and has written music for arraymusic ensemble, neither/nor ensemble and the CBC program Brave New Waves. Currently, he collaborates with improvising dancer, Aimée Dawn Robinson and the two recently performed and taught together in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Eric Chenaux's new album is entitled, Sloppy Ground and will be released on May 20th on Constellation Records. More: www.myspace.com/ericchenaux .
Ryan Driver and Sandro Perri are Double Suicide; a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in some very beautiful songs. In interviews they are as dark and inscrutable as the black monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. But in concert they are as colourful and hypnotic as the psychedelic ending of that very same movie.
$6 with non-perishable food item / $8 without
Tickets available in advance at The Bookshelf and Daydream Nation (Guelph) and Orange Monkey (Waterloo), or at the door. The e-bar is All-ages / Licenced.
Colloquium Keynote: Linda and Michael Hutcheon
Linda Hutcheon is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and one of the world's most important theorists of contemporary culture. Michael Hutcheon is an author, Professor of Medicine, and Deputy Physician in Chief for Education at the Toronto Health Network. Together, this husband and wife duo have published numerous articles and three books at the intersection of medical and cultural history including 2004's Opera: The Art of Dying. Their keynote address is entitled, "Jazz/Opera and the Staging of Race".
Thursday, Sept. 4,3:45 - 4:45 pm
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (Free)
