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Three Thursdays of Jazz: Thursday 2
Torngat and Jesse Stewart
Thursday, June 12, 2008, 10 PM
presented by CFRU 93.3 FM and the Guelph Jazz Festival
Torngat is a Montreal instrumental trio made up of drums, keyboards and French horn. They perform music that could be contrued as post rock, with a strong cinematic quality, but is less dark and melancholic than is typical from the genre. How about: chamber pop?
The band delivers uplifting melodies and childlike fantasy passages, yet still manage to infuse their songs with emotional weight. Their music invokes similar visions to those of Tom Waits, early Penguin Orchestra and fellow Canadian songsmith Patrick Watson. They’ll be joined tonight by Guelph’s own Jesse Stewart – drummer and frequent Guelph Jazz Festival performer. More: www.torngat.ca .
“Montreal’s Torngat are a three-piece outfit that employs French horn, melodion, xylophone, Wurlitzer, analog synth, drums and trumpet to create music to truly lose yourself in. Nothing is forced, the timing is perfect and the melodies are complex. Torngat reminds us why digital loops of the same instruments will never sound as musical as the real, analog, deal.” – Stuart Trew, Ottawa Express
$6 with non-perishable food item / $8 without
Tickets available in advance at The Bookshelf and Daydream Nation (Guelph) and Orange Monkey (Waterloo), or at the door. The e-bar is All-ages / Licenced.
Colloquium Keynote: Linda and Michael Hutcheon
Linda Hutcheon is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and one of the world's most important theorists of contemporary culture. Michael Hutcheon is an author, Professor of Medicine, and Deputy Physician in Chief for Education at the Toronto Health Network. Together, this husband and wife duo have published numerous articles and three books at the intersection of medical and cultural history including 2004's Opera: The Art of Dying. Their keynote address is entitled, "Jazz/Opera and the Staging of Race".
Thursday, Sept. 4,3:45 - 4:45 pm
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (Free)
