And Finally

As I now sit at home in Halifax, having experienced the past week and especially the most recent two whirlwind days, the tour seems a bit like a distant blur already. Hamilton to Toronto was a pretty straightforward transfer, with Read More …

Ontario

The Hammer. Who knew there was improvised music there? Well, I don’t think there was very much until Cem Zafir arrived last year. Cem is the ultimate free jazz enabler. Over the years he has presented some of the world’s Read More …

Even Further Out

Vancouver and Victoria are so fortunate to have artist-run centres that are dedicated to new music programming. Halifax had the Khyber, which in its day was an institutional (almost) equivalent, but our Khyber is almost lost to municipal mistrust, misunderstanding, Read More …

The West Coast

One of the other temples of improvised music is The Western Front in Vancouver. It’s one of the countries oldest artist-run centres, and it has shown or presented many of Canada’s most important visual and performing artists over its long Read More …

Blogging from the road

It’s quite an undertaking touring a group of musicians. In Canada at least fringe art forms need financial help. The Canada Council helps with that if your project is super strong, your gigs are good and you’re lucky. Croft/Adams/Pearse have Read More …