The 2016 Somewhere There Creative Music Festival

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The 2016 Somewhere There Creative Music Festival, February 26-28 at the TRANZAC Club, 292 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto

Friday 26 February

7pm talk: Music as Community: contingency, fungibility, and solidarity

Joe Strutt (Mechanical Forest Sound)

8pm The Nick Storring Band

Nick Storring (cello)

w/ Zoe Alexis-Abrams (voice) Germaine Liu (drums) John Mark Sherlock (piano) Ilana Waniuk (violin)

9pm SlowPitchSound

Cheldon Paterson (turntables)

10pm Ronley Teper & The Lipliners

Ronley Teper (voice, acoustic guitar)

w/ Caleb Hamilton (trumpet) Blake Howard (drums) Gordan Hyland (tenor saxophone) Saul Lederman (projections)

Samantha McClelland (bass) Karen Ng (alto saxophone) Tim Posgate (banjo, fiddle) Chris Pruden (piano)

Willow Rutherford (accordion) Nick Taylor (guitar) Beth Washburn (mini tuba)

Saturday 27 February :: matinee

2pm solos:

Peter Lutek (woodwinds, etc)

Germaine Liu (percussion)

Paul Newman (tenor, soprano saxophones)

3pm Solo Improvisation Roundtable

Joe Sorbara, moderator

4pm solos:

Kyle Brenders (woodwinds)

Ken Aldcroft (guitar)

Nicole Rampersaud (trumpet)

Saturday 27 February :: evening

7pm Interstellar Tentet

Jay Hay (baritone saxophone)

w/ Nick Buligan (trumpet) Karen Ng (alto saxophone) Scott Peterson (bass) Nicole Rampersaud (trumpet)

Tom Richards (trombone) Heather Segger (trombone) Mike Smith (synth) Joe Sorbara (drums)

Jeremy Strachan (tenor saxophone)

8pm Ugly Beauties

Matt Brubeck (cello) Nick Fraser (drums) Marilyn Lerner (piano)

9pm Kyle Brenders Ensemble

Kyle Brenders (saxophones)

w/ Ben Grossman (hurdy gurdy, electronics) Germaine Liu (percussion) Peter Lutek (clarinet, electronics)

Jean Martin (drums, electronics) Karen Ng (alto saxophone) Cheldon Paterson (turntables)

Nicole Rampersaud (trumpet) Nick Storring (cello, electronics) Doug Van Nort (electronics)

10pm The Polka Dogs

Colin Couch (tuba) Tiina Kiik (accordion) John Millard (banjo) Ambrose Pottie (drums) Tom Walsh (trombone)

Sunday 28 February :: matinee

2pm The Humber Composer’s Collective

Ben McCarroll-Butler (woodwinds)

w/ Jessica Chen (voice) Abby David (bass) Julian Di Vito (drums) Ewen Farncombe (piano)

Trevor Peverley (guitar) Tom Upjohn (trumpet) Nebyu Yohannes (trombone)

3pm Swankey, Duncan, and Oore

Christine Duncan (voice) Daniel Oore (tenor saxophone) Laura Swankey (voice)

Sunday 28 February :: evening

7pm FOG

Rebecca Hennessy (trumpet)

w/ Jay Burr (tuba) Nico Dann (drums) Tania Gill (piano) Tom Richards (trombone) Don Scott (guitar)

8pm Ways

Evan Cartwright (drums) Brodie West (alto saxophone)

9pm THREADS (Quintet)

Ken Aldcroft (guitar)

w/ Jonathan Adjemian (synth) Josh Cole (bass) Germaine Liu (drums) Karen Ng (alto saxophone)

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