Americana / Balkan music / Cajun / Cumbia / Eastern European / Folk / Folk Rock / latino / Pub Rock / Rock
Montreal
Experimental / Contemporary / Experimental Dream Pop
Linaire • Girt • Rezgui • Mercier • Christoff
Indie Folk / Indie Pop / Pop / Pop-Rock / Singer-Songwriter
Gab Bouchard
Africa / Afro-Electro / Electro / Electronic / House / Reggae
Soirée Urban Africa avec Degg J Force3 • Afrikana Soul Sister
Americana / Folk Rock / Kebamericana / Rock
Mara Tremblay
A national champion at combining rock, vintage pop and kebamericana, our Mara Tremblay released the album Cassiopée in 2017, so what’s in store for these concerts at Maison de la culture Maisonneuve and Centre communautaire d’Anjou? In March 2020, do we have the right to expect a new repertoire, or at least a foretaste of a new cycle of creation? It’s said to be a show in honour of International Women’s Day (March 8) and “focused on her new album”. Let the fans take it as a given!
Two years after Contrôle, MC Lary Kidd released Surhomme, 12 pieces of his own with a plethora of bricolage beats concocted in concert with his buddies Ruffsound and Ajust. So life goes on, Lary Kidd continues his career without Loud, former teammate and close friend who has of course become a keb rap superstar. Less painful and tortured than the poetic material on Contrôle, Surhomme is stuffed with double entendres and metaphorical punch. His thoughts and observations are gathered from the trials and tribulations of everyday life. The trivialization of his own misery has made him stronger, more resistant, even almost unfeeling… hence the choice of the word “superman”. Will he fly over the Club Soda stage?
Dubstep / Electronic
Metafloor • SBK. • Mandala Ataksak • Shigero • Aphotik
Classical / Minimalist / Modern Classical / Renaissance
(CANCELLED) Hélène Dorion with les Violons du Roy
An interesting proposal, this literary concert – the prolific writer Hélène Dorion will read excerpts from her most recent collection of poems, Comme résonne la vie, accompanied the music of Les Violons du Roy, or in alternation with it. The musical palette will be varied: from the very Italian Renaissance madrigals of Gesualdo to a hypnotic piece by Estonia’s Arvo Pärt, as well as selected movements from string quartets by Schubert and Janacek, not to mention the premiere of a custom-made piece by Quebec composer Simon Bertrand.
PROGRAM
Gesualdo: Madrigals from libro quinto and libro sesto (Simon Bertrand, transcription)
Simon Bertrand: Creation pour des poèmes d’Hélène Dorion
Arvo Pärt: Summa
Janacek: String Quartet No. 2, Intimate Letters, 1st movement
Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810, Death and the Maiden, 2nd movement (arr. for string orchestra)
Jazz
(CANCELLED) Terri Lyne Carrington at Schulich Hall
Terri Lyne Carrington is a jazz drummer and composer who has been active for almost 40 years. She has accompanied trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Clark Terry, saxophonists Stan Getz and Wayne Shorter, singer Al Jarreau… but more particularly Herbie Hancock, whose band she was a member of from 1997 to 2007. Since then, she has been teaching at the Berkleee School of Music in Boston. A guest of the Catherine Thornhill-Steele Visiting Artists series, her drums will be propelled by the McGill Jazz Orchestra I on this night.
Deep House / Electronic / Tech-House / Techno
Syla • Angel • Benzine • Slova
Jazz / Third Stream
(POSTPONED) Projet Don Ellis II
He has delivered two particularly memorable concerts at Sala Rossa in recent years. The first one, Grand Jawaka, in the summer of 2016, featured most of Frank Zappa’s albums Waka Jawaka and Grand Wazoo. The second, Ode à l’Infonie, the following summer, with the ensemble 333 ToutArtBel, revisited some of the legendary group’s emblematic works with a joyful enthusiasm. Following on from his December concert, which focused on the main representatives of the Third Stream, which combined classical music and jazz, namely Don Ellis, Robert F. Graettinger, Ken Hanna and Pete Rugolo, Philippe Hode-Keyser is presenting a new and improved version of his Don Ellis project, presented with an ensemble of 28 musicians in February 2017. This time, it’s with a collective of 58 artists (rhythm section, brass, woodwinds, sitar, tablas, choirs, dance) that he pays tribute to the work of the visionary trumpeter, composer and conductor Don Ellis, who died prematurely of a heart attack in 1978 at the age of 44.
PROGRAMME
“Brash Brass Bash” (1973)
“Good Feelin’” (1969)
“Fire Dance” (1973)
“Pussywiggle Stomp” (1968)
“Star Children” (1968)
“Thetis” (1967)
“Wolfgang for All Seasons” (1972)
“Without Joan” (1972)
“Hey Jude” (1969)
“Whiplash” (1978)
Deep House / Electronic / Minimal Techno / Techno