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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: Deborah Wong
Ethnomusicologist Deborah Wong is a respected author, Professor of Music, and performer specializing in the musics of Asian America and Thailand. A member of Satori Daiko (Taiko Center of Los Angeles) and author of 2004's Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music, Wong is also a keynote speaker and course facilitator of the inaugural Summer Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. Her keynote address is entitled, "Improvisation in American Taiko."
Friday Sept. 5, 9:00 - 10:00am
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (Free)
