Mar
7
7:00 PM19:00

Toronto // Women From Space Festival

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 McCarrol-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

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Feb
22
7:00 PM19:00

FROTAE vol 2. / Canción

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

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Jan
17
6:00 PM18:00

Halifax // st!mmng release with Chik White

Celebrating our duo tape release with UK label Soundholes.

With my favorite band Rumé Kover opening.

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Sep
26
7:00 PM19:00

Montréal // Beverly Glenn-Copeland with Mimi O’Bonsawin

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**

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Sep
4
8:00 PM20:00

Montréal // Stretching the Unison

  • Fondation PHI pour l’Art Contemporain (map)
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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.

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