Each instalment of Solitary Shrew features two performances led by women and gender non-conforming artists spanning an array of genres and artistic disciplines. This month features the Angela Pincente Quartet (jazz) & Jessica Spurrell (folk-rock)!

NICK FRASER PRESENTS (JAZZ, IMPROVISED MUSIC): Nick Fraser has been an active and engaging presence in the Toronto new jazz and improvised music community since he moved there from Ottawa in 1995. He works with and presents with a veritable “who’s who” of Canadian jazz and improvised music. Downbeat Magazine: “Drummer Nick Fraser is a […]

No Octopus Dancing. Two sets of spontaneous electroacoustic spatter wrangled by organic percussive clatter. Allison Cameron - electronics Stephen Parkinson - guitar Germaine Liu - percussion and electronics Mark Zurawinski - percussion and electronics

Hope Street is a new project led by songwriter and composer John Millard. Millard has been active in the Canadian music and theatre scenes for thirty years. His projects The Polka Dogs, John Millard and Happy Day, and The Cave have released 7 recordings and toured Canada and Europe. He has worked across Canada as […]

Ladyfinger with Diane Roblin (piano, keyboards) and Kayla Milmine (soprano sax) is an ensemble of two distinguished players within Toronto’s creative music scene. They are composers of original music and interpreters of compositions by jazz greats like McCoy Tyner and Carla Bley. They are joined by Mark Zurawinski on drums. Experimental jazz. Holger Schoorl and […]