On Friday April 4th, join the Ministry of Phonic Services as we present three beloved and unique experimenters bringing their craft to the conservatory of Allan Gardens.
$15 advance / $20 at door
Tickets available here.
Canadian Golha Orchestra and vocalist Mahbobeh Golzari present masterpieces of Iranian music and a new composition by composer Saman Shahi.
tickets and more info available here.
Festival FLUX présente
La première de l’œuvre collective « Dans les ombres dansent des figures lumineuses » par l’Ensemble Déplacer d’l’air
+ invité-es
Avec les co-présentateurs: Innovations en concert, Mardi Spaghetti, Réseau Canadien de Musiques Nouvelles & Arts in the Margins
Portes 18:00
Spectacle 19:00
Prévente : 15$ ou 20$ (billetterie à venir)
Entrée à la porte : 25$
duguay, be crime. more info soon.
Opening the second night of Festival Equinox with my buddies.
later that night: Samuraï, Pyrocene Death Cult, Taxi Girls.
WTETN et Suoni Per El Popolo présentent:
Quinton Barnes’ Black Noise feat. Naomi, Ari Swan, Markus Floats, Matt le Groulx, James Goddard, Lucas Huang
Solo set and conduction workshops put on by New Works Calgary. Show at 6pm on March 15th.
more info here.
Big Bang! plays the reimagined music of Nina Simone. Part of a great festival put on by Bea Labikova, check out the lineup here.
Tara Kannangara - voice/trumpet
Shn Shn - voice/guitar/synth
Elisabeth Dorion - voice/clarinet
tUkU Matthews - voice
Tara Kannangara - trumpet/voice
Atcheleh Aryee - trumpet
Rebecca Henessey - trumpet
Heather Saumer - trombone
Naomi McCarroll-Butler - alto sax/bass clarinet/clarinet/flute
Nirvana Sagar - tenor saxophone/flute/clarinet
Bea Labikova - alto sax /bari sax/clarinet/bass clarinet/flute/fujara
Vanese Smith (Pursuit Grooves) - electronics/beats
Carolina Lopez - guitar/voice
Mira Riselli - upright bass/electric bass
Racha Moukalled - vibraphone/piano/malletstation
Diane Roblin - piano
Yang Chen - vibraphone/percussion/drumset
Angelica Zavala - drumset
Audio-responsive projections by Meghan Chen
Presenting a solo set for Michael Cloud Duguay’s Highly Likely Festival.
3C84 is a special recording and performance project led by Charlie Glasspool and José Contreras. Established in 2007, a large ensemble of creatives and collaborators produced an epic work entitled "b" inspired by a distant musical signal from the deep reaches of space. A subsonic B flat 57 octaves below Middle C.
After being lost in space for the better part of a decade, 3C84 was invited to return to Earth to be the opening act of Artsweek 2023. After this magical and memorable and astonishing show, 3C84 resolved to record again and created "Myrtle in the Forest", this time an exploration of our relationship with nature and the environment.
For Highly Likely, the work of 3C84 is being presented by the duo that has been at the core of the project since the initial liftoff.
Charlie Petch (they/he) is a disabled & transmasculine multidisciplinary artist. Their debut poetry collection, Why I Was Late (Brick Books), won the 2022 ReLit Award, and was named "Best of 2021" by The Walrus. Their next poetry book “Infinite Audition”, is out in Fall 2025 with Brick Books. Petch received a Golden Beret Spoken Word Prize from the League of Canadian Poets. Their play “No one’s special at the hot dog cart” debuted in 2024 with “Theatre Passe Muraille and Public Energy”. They write plays, librettos, poems, and music and perform their work for audiences all over Turtle Island.
Naomi McCarroll-Butler
Naomi McCarroll-Butler plays woodwinds, jaw harp and homemade drone machines. She is really into noise, anarchist transgenderism, freaky old hymns and sombre bagpipe music. Her music is rooted in improvisation, mystic spirituality, free jazz, cyclical overblown flutes, trad music of the british isles and a deep love of the drone. Oscillations of maximalism and minimalism as the one fractals out and the discrete returns to the continuous. That kind of thing. From Hamilton, nurtured in Toronto's Tranzac improvised music community, she now lives in Montreal.
$30 | 7pm
Presented by Codes d’Accès.
Tomás Díaz Villegas, Canción, for two cellos, accordion and trumpet (10′), 2023.
Darko Dimitrijevic (he), accordion
Loïc Lapatrie (he), trumpet
Audréanne Filion (she), cello
Juliette Leclerc (she), cello
Charles-Éric Fontaine (he), conductor
Liberté-Anne Lymberiou, FROTAE vol2, for 5 saxophones (45’), 2024.
Geneviève Gauthier (she), alto saxophone
René Zeledon (he), tenor saxophone
Ida Toninato (she), baritone saxophone
Philippe Lauzier (he), alto and soprano saxophone
Naomi McCarroll-Butler (she), tenor saxophone
Liberté-Anne Lymberiou (she), composition, musical and artistic direction
at mai/son; message me for exact address.
$10 / NOTAFLOF, BYOB
playing drone machines, reeds and percussion with guitarist Atsushi Ikeda, opening for MASKER
Celebrating our duo tape release with UK label Soundholes.
With my favorite band Rumé Kover opening.
Nick Fraser - drums
Dan Pitt - guitar
Alex Fournier - bass
Patrick Smith - sax
Naomi McCarroll-Butler - sax and bass clar
Tickets here.
Featuring Beverly Glenn Copeland, Vivek Shraya, Sister Ray and many more.
~ a saxophone quintet of ~
Philippe Lauzier / Geneviève Gauthier / René Zeledon / Melissa Pipe / Allison Burik / Naomi
~ play the music of ~
touring our new record across West-Central Canada.
Dan Pitt - guitar
Alex Fournier - bass
Nick Fraser - drums
Patrick Smith - saxophones
Naomi - alto sax and bass clarinet
touring our new record across West-Central Canada.
Dan Pitt - guitar
Alex Fournier - bass
Nick Fraser - drums
Patrick Smith - saxophones
Naomi - alto sax and bass clarinet
touring our new record across West-Central Canada.
Dan Pitt - guitar
Alex Fournier - bass
Nick Fraser - drums
Patrick Smith - saxophones
Naomi - alto sax and bass clarinet
touring our new record across West-Central Canada.
Dan Pitt - guitar
Alex Fournier - bass
Nick Fraser - drums
Patrick Smith - saxophones
Naomi - alto sax and bass clarinet
touring our new record across West-Central Canada.
Dan Pitt - guitar
Alex Fournier - bass
Nick Fraser - drums
Patrick Smith - saxophones
Naomi - alto sax and bass clarinet
touring our new record across West-Central Canada.
Dan Pitt - guitar
Alex Fournier - bass
Nick Fraser - drums
Patrick Smith - saxophones
Naomi - alto sax and bass clarinet
touring our new record across West-Central Canada.
Dan Pitt - guitar
Alex Fournier - bass
Nick Fraser - drums
Patrick Smith - saxophones
Naomi - alto sax and bass clarinet
Playing with a hero of mine. **To protect the artist, full mask mandate in effect**
Beverly Glenn-Copeland and friends: The Salon Evening with Mimi O’Bonsawin
Doors: 7PM | Show: 8PM
General Admission: $40 (taxes incl) Online | $45 At the Door
**This venue is wheelchair accessible with wheelchair accessible bathrooms and welcoming of service animals**
Family friendly BBQ with minimalist saxophone music. Contact me for address. FROTAE is a sax quintet playing the music of Liberté-Anne Lymberiou. It features Philippe Lauzier, Geneviève Gauthier, René Zeledon, Melissa Pipe and myself.
Animating the opening of Solvey Johnsgaard’s exhibit at Édifice VA de l’Université de Concordia.
Free outdoor show at Guelph jazz Festival.
Sadaf Amini (santur)
Roa Lee (gayageum)
Araz Salek (tar)
Naomi McCarroll-Butler (woodwinds)
Yang Chen (percussion)
Sasan Salaseli (percussion)
Joe Sorbara - drums
Racha Moukalled - vibes
Adrian Russouw - bass
Naomi - sax
I’ll be premiering the solo microtonal clarinet pieces of composer Brian Abbott, along with sets from the other musicians of Cowbird Collective.
Cowbird Collective is a group of composer/performers: Brian Abbott, Germaine Liu, Paul Newman, Manuel Morales and myself.
Free, online reservation required.
The PHI Foundation is pleased to present Stretching the Unison, a performance organized by Adam Kinner, featuring Erin Hill, Naomi McCarroll-Butler, and Frédérique Roy.
To play together, to feel time and pitch from the same position, to be in unison, is one of the foundations of musical performance. And yet, how together we actually are, in general or in a particular passage, is a matter of perspective, positionality, and context. What may seem to be unison at one moment can appear disjointed at another. Unison in music can be thought of as the feeling of listening to another that is also oneself, with all the misrecognition and disidentification inherent in such a formulation.
Adam Kinner, an artist who works across performance, music, and dance, has invited three artists—Erin Hill, Naomi McCarroll-Butler, and Frédérique Roy—to play music with him that focuses on the question of unison and its limits. While the music proceeds from a desire to be together, to blanket one another in the warmth of each other’s tone, it also readily gives in to the limits of this togetherness and the desire to flee when you hear yourself reflected back. In the resonant space of the PHI Foundation, the artists will stretch the unison until it breaks, or holds them together.