Songs from The (Post) Mistress

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Location: Isabel Bader Theatre
Concert & CD Release Songs from The (Post) Mistress by Tomson Highway Featuring Patricia Cano Friday, December 13, 2013 ~ 8 PM Isabel Bader Theatre, Toronto For immediate release…..Celebrate this spectacular evening with host Tantoo Cardinal honouring the creative brilliance of performer, playwright, composer and novelist, Tomson Highway. Performing Songs from The (Post) Mistress, a collection of stories of a resident post mistress through lyrics and music, Highway will be joined on stage by the incomparable songstress Patricia Cano and musicians David Restivo (piano), Ted Quinlan (guitar) George Koller (bass), Daniel Barnes (drums), Jeremy Ledbetter (harmonica), Gord Sheard (accordion) and Marcus Ali (saxophone & clarinet). Please join us Friday, December 13 at 8 PM – doors open at 7:30 PM – at the Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles St West Toronto, ON. Event is free and CDs can be purchased for $ 20.00 Canadas leading Aboriginal playwright, Tomson Highway, returns with a musical tour d force! Based on his latest theatrical masterpiece, The (Post) Mistress, this CD releases 11 unique musical pieces weaving stories with a soundtrack like no other. The CD is produced by Tomson Highway and Luisito Orbegoso, recorded and mixed at the Canterbury Music Company with Jeremy Darby and mastered at George Seara Sound. This cabaret-style evening is set in the not-so-distant past, when sending letters through the mail was still vital to communication. The (Post) Mistress knows her clients so well and through songs she shares stories of love within pieces ranging from Berlin cabaret to French caf chanson to Dixieland jazz to smooth bossa nova styles in a multilingual French, Cree and English libretto. This musical celebration features the finest of Torontos musicians with the powerful vocal performance of Patricia Cano. This is a one of a kind evening you wont forget. Special thanks to our supporters: NOW Magazine, Victoria University in the University of Toronto and Native Women in the Arts Presented & Produced by Denise Bolduc, bullDUKE Productions d.m.bolduc@gmail.com Communications by Heather Haynes Culture Storm. For additional media information please contact Heather Haynes atheather@culturestorm.ca ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Tomson Highway http://www.tomsonhighway.com/ is Canadas best-known Aboriginal classically trained pianist, performer, playwright, composer and novelist from northern Manitoba. His best-known works include the award-winning plays, The Rez Sisters, Dry Lips, Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, and Rose as well as the best-selling novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen. He is widely recognized for his tremendous contribution to the development of Aboriginal Theatre around the world. The (Post) Mistress is his latest achievement, a one-woman musical for which he wrote — as he always does when it comes to his musicals — the book, the lyrics, and the music. Patricia Cano http://www.patriciacano.com was born and raised in a Peruvian household in Sudbury, ON. A University of Toronto graduate (Theatre and Spanish Literature) Patricia moved to Paris, France in 2002 to work with the world-renowned French theatre company, Le Thtre du Soleil. Four years later, she left the company to return to the Americas, spending time in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, soaking up the sounds, performing and working with a musical collaborator, Carlos Bernardo. Since 2001, Patricia has also traveled the world performing a one-woman cabaret alongside Tomson Highway. She has performed the songs of two of his plays in Cree Cabaret style from Sudbury to Prague to Rio and back again, and very recently, she starred in the Peterborough production of Highway’s newest play, THE (POST) MISTRESS, as well as the Thtre du Nouvel Ontario/National Arts Centre (NAC) French language co-production of the same play! Other theatre credits include being a member of the NAC’s English Theatre Company in 2010/2011. Patricia and Carlos Bernardo co-wrote her debut album, a creation in four languages, THIS IS THE NEW WORLD (released 2009). The album was launched in Lima, Peru with great success. Patricia has been touring Ontario, soon will be on tour in Quebec with hopes to tour the west soon! Her album is a favourite on CBC/Radio-Canada regional, national, and international programming, for which she is grateful! A second album is very much in the works, and she is looking ahead to a 2014 recording. Tantoo Cardinal http://www.tantoocardinal.com is an accomplished and celebrated actress who has advanced Aboriginal performing arts throughout the world. Her 80 plus credits include North of 60, Shattered, Legends of the Fall, Dances With Wolves, Black Robe, Loyalties, Education of Little Tree, Luna, Spirit of the Whale, Unnatural & Accidental, Sioux City, Silent Tongue, Smoke Signals and Mothers & Daughters. She has received numerous honours including the induction as a Member into the Order of Canada for her outstanding contributions in 2010.

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