Upcoming events.

 
Mar
8

Women from Space Big Bang! Plays Bjork

17-piece, all star improvising band with live visuals by The Liquid Crystal Display.

Tara Kannangara (trumpet/voice) ★ Laura Swankey (voice/electronics) ★ tUkU Matthews (voice) ★ Shn Shn (voice/guitar/synth) ★ Nicole Rampersaud (trumpet/electronics) ★ Madeleine Ertel (trumpet) ★ Heather Saumer (trombone) ★ Karen Ng (woodwinds) ★ Naomi McCarrol-Butler (woodwinds) ★ Nirvana Sagar (woodwinds) ★ Bea Labikova (woodwinds) ★ Grace Scheele (harp/electronics) ★ Pursuit Grooves (electronics/beats)  ★ Mira Riselli (upright bass/electric bass) ★ Racha Moukalled (vibraphone/piano/malletstation) ★ Yang Chen (vibraphone/percussion/drumset) ★ Angelica Zavala (drumset) 

Featuring arrangements by Jessica Ackerley ★ Mingjia Chen ★ Lieke Van Der Voort ★ Madeleine Ertel  ★ Nicole Rampersaud ★ Heather Saumer

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Mar
5

Peripheral Vision and Ertel/Davidson/Fortin/Fraser/Hodgson

Peripheral Vision is excited to have Ertel/Davidson/Fortin/Fraser/Hodgson, an intergenerational quintet that enjoys playing lesser-known jazz standards in an interactive and playful way opening this month.

Peripheral Vision is one of the most exciting and innovative jazz quartets on the international jazz scene, performing together for 15 years. Based in Toronto, Canada, the creative leaders of the group are long-time musical collaborators, guitarist Don Scott and bassist Michael Herring. They have assembled a synergistic musical unit designed to push the boundaries of jazz while engaging the listener with a grooving, toe-tapping immediacy. Their distinctive musical voice bridges tradition and innovation, with deeply felt influences ranging from jazz, rock, classical, and improv, with a focus on dynamic group interaction.

Peripheral Vision is excited to have released their Canada Council for the Arts funded multi-media project, We’ve Got Nothing, featuring live videos filmed at the Tranzac, and an accompanying CD release.

PWYC

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Mar
3

Reunion Reunion

Almost a year after premiering this music for a 10-piece ensemble, I'm so excited to play as a smaller group for a house show March 3
Featuring Alex Samaras (voice), Jillian Sauerteig (cello), Steven Noronha (piano), Dan Fortin (bass), and Aidan McConnell (drums).

With an opening set by some huge musical inspirations of mine - the amazing Monsters Inc (Robin Dann & Philippe Melanson)!

Tickets are limited - message or email me to reserve a spot. It's BYOB!

This is also a bit of a goodbye party so I can see you all before I leave for Berlin!

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Feb
1

The Dawn is No Longer Beyond Our Reach

Original music by Mateos Labbe-Phelan, featuring Madeleine Ertel (trumpet), Max Stover (tenor saxophone), Max Donaldson (piano), Dan Fortin (bass), and Mateos Labbe-Phelan (drums).

$15 at door, $10 with reservation. Make a reservation by emailing reso@erbar.ca

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Oct
24

Shoebox Composer's Concert

Join us for the second Shoe Box Composer's Concert! This concert is co-presented by the Canadian Music Centre and will feature works by:

Aidan McConnell
Crescenzo Dicecco
Jahred Warkentin
Kelly Yixuan Wang
Madeleine Ertel
Mira Riselli
Patrick O'Reilly
Shreya Jha

Performed by
Erin Bestvater (Violin)
Charlene Chin (Harp)
Rashaan Allwood (Piano)

Date: October 24th, 2023
Time: 8pm, doors at 7:30
Location: Canadian Music Centre, 20 St Joseph St, Toronto ON

Shoe Box Composer's Concerts is a new community-based concert series that provides emerging composers the opportunity to write pieces for diverse instrumentations and to hear them performed live. Each concert features a different instrumentation and group of composers.

This concert series is volunteer-led and crowd-funded. Please consider supporting our GoFundMe campaign to keep this project alive: https://gofund.me/48495b5e

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Oct
13

Max Donaldson Trio at Sellers & Newel

The Sellers & Newel Literary Society presents “The 200th Show”, featuring Stephen Stanley, Chris Bennett, Max Donaldson, Madeleine Ertel, and David Hodgson.

Doors at 7pm.

Seats can be reserved by email at sellers@sellersandnewel.com or by phone at 647-778-6345.

$30 minimum donation.

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Oct
7

Ben Rosenblum's Nebula Project

Internationally-touring pianist/accordionist Ben Rosenblum brings his award-winning, genre-bending compositional style to the Nebula Project, a six-piece ensemble featuring a diverse cast of New York City’s most in-demand jazz musicians. Rosenblum boasts an extensive resume, having led bands at prestigious venues around the world (Ravinia, Library of Congress, Kuumbwa Jazz Center; multiple tours in the US, Canada, Europe and Japan) and touring with several Grammy and Juno recognized artists across various musical genres, including Rickie Lee Jones, Kiran Ahluwalia, Curtis Lundy, Nêgah Santos and Laura Anglade. With the Nebula Project, the pianist/accordionist digs deeply into his cosmopolitan roots in NYC to create a truly global music, drawing from influences as diverse as Brazilian forró, Irish reels and jigs, Bulgarian folkloric songs, Dominican merengue and Middle Eastern traditional rhythms, and combining them with an extensive rooting in American jazz and traditional music. Rosenblum leans on personal experiences working with master musicians from these and other areas of the world in order to write explorative, emotional, narritive-driven compositions that have garnered awards from ASCAP, Downbeat and beyond.

Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project is celebrating their February 2023 release, A Thousand Pebbles. Since the Nebula Project’s first album release in 2020, Kites and Strings, The Nebula Project was voted runner-up for Best New Artist in JazzTimes’ 2020 Readers’ Poll, and the album received positive reviews from over twenty publications, including All About Jazz, NYC Jazz Record, JazzTimes, JazzLife (Japan) and more. Since the 2023 release, the group was featured in an article in Downbeat Magazine’s May 2023 issue, “Worldly Jazz Adventuring” which highlights the adventurous spirit of this ensemble.

 

Personnel:

Ben Rosenblum – piano/accordion (US)

Madeleine Ertel – trumpet (CANADA)

Jasper Dutz – sax/clarinet (US),

Lucian Gray – guitar (CANADA)

Jon Maharaj – bass (CANADA),

Ben Zweig – drums (US)

$17 - $28

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