Bill Wood’s songs have been described as “what happens when 30 years of songwriting, honed over decades of hard life experiences, meet the craftsmanship of a career musician who doesn’t know what it means to compromise.”
A note from Brodie West: For my monthly at the Tranzac I will often schedule my quintet called The Brodie West Quintet which is Tania Gill piano, Josh Cole bass, Nick Fraser drums, Evan Cartwright drums and myself. Sometimes the drummers are substituted up and in that case it's usually Phil Melanson who is there […]
Since 2018, drummer Harry Vetro and bassist Andrew Furlong have programmed “Music By Harry and Furlong”. The series features two new bands nearly every month and performers include many of Canada’s greatest improvisors as well as the occasional International guest. Attendees can expect peaceful original compositions, loud jagged improvisation, and everything in between. ** Join […]
Precious Little Presents: Round the table we turn Contraptions and shenanigans. Storage and porridge, song-title geography. Improvisation and Omni-visualation. We're out in the workshop, hammer and saw, Phonometers in hand we measure and draw. Erasing the borders, the box opens wide. Where is the door? Turn it all on its side. David Woodhead / electric […]
All-Set! Presents features music based around the trio of Mike Smith (electronics), Pete Johnston (bass) and Jake Oelrichs (drums). The music made in this monthly residency is largely improvised in a subtly-propulsive way that mixes jazz, minimalism and progressive rock. A rotating cast of guests drawn from the roster of Smith and Johnston’s recording imprint […]
Bill Wood’s songs have been described as “what happens when 30 years of songwriting, honed over decades of hard life experiences, meet the craftsmanship of a career musician who doesn’t know what it means to compromise.” Bill will be accompanied by Chris Bennett.
Over the past few months, Teagan Johnston has been rehearsing in the Main Hall at our baby grand piano; come hear what Teagan's been working on and help send her off to Japan! Teagan Johnston is a singer-songwriter who drives the genre beyond its current borders, bringing a radical rawness to her work that hits […]
A note from Brodie West: For my monthly at the Tranzac I will often schedule my quintet called The Brodie West Quintet which is Tania Gill piano, Josh Cole bass, Nick Fraser drums, Evan Cartwright drums and myself. Sometimes the drummers are substituted up and in that case it's usually Phil Melanson who is there […]
Song Experiment is a monthly song lab hosted by Cassie Norton to provide songwriters a venue for explorations into different approaches to song-writing, instrumentation, arrangement or all three. Each month, a different artist and approach is featured welcoming surprise and collaboration. Drawing/colouring supplies and big banner paper will be provided for all doodlers, so you […]
okay...okay....we admit it: we're gap-filling for the regulars here.....but we are planning to do some tunes that will be at one : adventurous, fun....and maybe ....well ....there might be some train-wrecks !!!!!....there is a possibility of guest adds !!!!!!!
All-Set! Presents returns with Molehill, the new moniker for the trio of Mike Smith (electronics), Jake Oelrichs (drums), and Pete Johnston (bass). On this evening we are excited to be joined by Chris Pruden (piano) for another edition of slowly-unfolding improvised electro-acoustic music.
Bill Wood’s songs have been described as “what happens when 30 years of songwriting, honed over decades of hard life experiences, meet the craftsmanship of a career musician who doesn’t know what it means to compromise.” Bill Wood and Chris Bennett play two sets of Bill Wood’s original music.
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