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posted April 19, 2007
Music Gallery — concert update april-june 2007
Dear friends of the Music Gallery,
Starting with tomorrow night (Thursday April 19) and a visit from Amsterdam's violin/video/voice artist Monica Germino, things are looking up (and Dutch!) for this spring, and this complete listings update takes you all the way to the summer and our big BBQ send-off to the 06/07 season. Do also take a moment to check out our myspace page — www.myspace.com/themusicgallery (including the latest schedule) — and become our online friend before Facebook turns myspace into a "digital ghost town." We have some new audio samples up there, including tracks by upcoming artists Monica Germino, Arnold Dreyblatt and Fond of Tigers, as well as a live track by Matmos recorded here at the MG last October. Also, please note we are experimenting with a new listings format, so feel free to get back to us with your feedback.
Concerts coming up:
All presentations at The Music Gallery, 197 John St. — except May 20 at Horseshoe Tavern, 370 Queen W.
Box office: 416-204-1080
Advance tickets for some concerts at Rotate This, 620 Queen W. and Soundscapes, 572 College St.
Web: www.musicgallery.org
Monica Germino: Plugged & Unplugged
Thursday April 19, 2007
Inter Avant series • Music Gallery presentation
8pm • $15 regular/$10 member + senior/$5 student
Amsterdam artist's solo program for violin, voice, soundtrack, effects, movement, film • member of Electra performs works by Louis Andriessen, Philip Glass, J.S. Bach, Jacob ter Veldhuis, Heiner Goebbels, Nicholas Brown, Michael Gordon
Fembots, Nathan Lawr & the Minotaurs
Friday April 20, 2007
Pop Avant series • co-presented with Undertones Music
8pm • $10 advance at Rotate This + Soundscapes/$12 door
Fembots: Post-industrial junk-store folk songs backed up by members of Hylozoists & Weakerthans • Opening set by Nathan Lawr & the Minotaurs
Continuum: CURV
Saturday April 21, 2007
Inter Avant series • co-presented with Continuum
8pm • $25 regular/$15 member, senior + arts worker/$5 student
Vancouver composing collective CURV (Marci Rabe, Kristy Farkas, Jennifer Butler) • 20 Silent Words incorporates sound, text, images and movement • feat. Wallace Halladay, Peter Pavlovsky, Greg Oh, Kimberley Pritchard
Fred Frith
Sunday April 22, 2007
Jazz Avant series • co-presented with Rough Idea
8pm • $15 adv at Rotate This + Soundscapes (limited availability); $25 door
New York composer, improviser & guitar innovator performs with Toronto’s Anne Bourne, cello + voice; John Oswald, sax; Owen Pallett (a.k.a. Final Fantasy), violin; Wilbert de Joode (Amsterdam), double bass
New Music Concerts: The 96 Note Octave
Saturday April 28, 2007
Classic Avant series • co-presented with NMC
7:15pm • $25 regular/$15 member + senior/$5 student
NMC brings Montreal composer Bruce Mather and his 1/16th tone piano to Toronto • Mather & Pierrette Lepage perform works especially composed for this piano by Canadian composers
Arnold Dreyblatt: Composer in Residence
Classic Avant series
Music Gallery presentation
Concert: Saturday May 5, 2007 (part of Over the Top Festival) 8pm $15 adv at Rotate This & Soundscapes (on sale now!); door prices: $20 regular/$15 member + senior/$10 student
Workshop: Thursday May 3, 2007
8pm $10 regular/$5 member + students (door only)
• MG hosts Berlin-based composer/performer and minimalist master with recordings on Table of the Elements and Tzadik • Collaborating with Toronto’s Anne Bourne, Rob Clutton, Nick Fraser, John Gzowski, Kathleen Kajioko, Scott Thomson
Michael Gira + Peter & the Wolf
Friday May 4, 2007
Pop Avant series
Co-presented with the Over the Top Festival
8pm $20 adv at Rotate This + Soundscapes
• M. Gira: NYC founder of Swans, Angels of Light + Young God Records • Peter & the Wolf: Austin TX psych-folk troubadour
VTO 007
Three nights of out-rock, jazz and global sounds
Co-presented with Rough Idea, in affiliation with FIMAV
Festival pass: $30 at Rotate This & Soundscapes (on sale date TBA)
Single concert tickets: $15 at Rotate This & Soundscapes (on sale date TBA); door prices: $20 regular/$15 member + senior/$10 student
Cor Fuhler’s Corkestra
Tuesday May 15, 2007
Jazz Avant series
8pm @ Music Gallery
• Amsterdam-based out-jazz orchestra • featuring Cor Fuhler, Ab Baars, Wilbert de Joode, Anne la Berge, Tobias Delius, Nora Mulder, Michael Vatcher, Tony Buck
Fond of Tigers + Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan
Friday May 18, 2007
Pop Avant meets World Avant series
8pm @ Music Gallery
• Vancouver's frenetic + spacious avant-rock septet (Drip Audio) • double bill with Toronto’s Evergreen Club performing improvisations with Scott Thomson + Martin Arnold
KoenjiHyakkei
Sunday May 20, 2007
Pop Avant meets Jazz Avant series
8pm @ Horseshoe Tavern, 370 Queen W.
• Japanese tech-heavy, Zappa-tastic progressive rock quintet • led by ex-Ruins drummer Yoshida Tatsuya • North American releases on Skin Graft Records
'''Toca Loca’s 60-Minute Workout, with opening act The Remainders
Sunday May 27, 2007
Classic Avant series • presented by the artists
$25 regular/$20 “Deal With the Devil”/$15 artist, member + senior/$10 student'''
• Toronto contemporary music trio with guest mezzo-sopranos Vilma Vitols + Marion Newman • new works by Juliet Palmer, Erik Ross, Katarina Curcin, Ana Sokolovic
New Music Concerts: Rohan's Cello
Sunday June 3, 2007
Classic Avant series • co-presented with NMC
7:15pm • $25 regular/$15 member + senior/$5 student
Guest artists Rohan de Saram and David Hetherington perform works by Luciano Berio, Santiago Lanchares, James Dillon, Iannis Xenakis, Alexander Shchetynsky, Sven Lyder Kahrs, Guido Baggiani, Brian Current
Bruce Peninsula with Castlemusic, Timbre Timbre, Katie Stelmanis
Saturday June 9, 2007
Pop Avant series
Co-presented with the artists
8pm $8 at the door
Bruce Peninsula: Toronto indie rockers play folk spirituals in the spirit of Alan Lomax • opening acts run the gamut of T.O. psych-folk, free improv, electronic pop scenes
Music Gallery Summer BBQ!
featuring Tim Hecker, Phill Niblock & Katherine Liberovskaya, Kanaka
Thursday June 14, 2007
Pop Avant series
Music Gallery presentation
6-11pm $15 advance at Rotate This & Soundscapes (on sale date TBA); door prices: $20 regular/$15 member + senior/$10 student
The Music Gallery wraps up our amazing 06/07 season with a BBQ in the courtyard and concert in the church Sanctuary, featuring some acclaimed sound and video artists both sides of the U.S./Canadian border, a talented local band that mixes rock with brass, some omnivorous BBQ'ed delectables, good company and good times!