JOHN MILLARD’S HOPE STREET
7.00
Hope Street features songs by John Millard with improvised accompaniment by Rob Clutton and Chris Pruden.
John Millard is a songwriter, singer and banjo player who led the Polka Dogs and John Millard and Happy Day. He is known for his work composing for theatre. Most recently The Cave with Martha Ross and Tomson Highway.
Chris Pruden is a pianist/keyboardist based in Toronto, ON. Heavily influenced by jazz, contemporary classical, folk, rock and electronic music, Chris has performed across North America, China, and Europe.
Rob Clutton is a bass player who works in the spaces between composition and improvisation, in collaboration with musicians, dancers, theatre and performance artists.
FIDDLE DRAM AT DROM
8.00
Chris Bartos - fiddler, multi-instrumentalist and Canadian music scene gem, has created his own fiddle style through an eclectic range of traditional violin studies (celtic, cajun, americana, canadiana, south indian, classical, jazz). He's toured globally and will be leading Fiddle Dram.
Rebecca Everett - Supporting Host, is a violinist, singer, songwriter and film composer. Her eclectic background has her dabbling in all kinds of music from Klezmer to jazz, tango, folk and classical.
https://www.rebeccaeverett.ca/
From the corners of Canada, the US, Ireland, Scotland and Brittania, Fiddle Dram at DROM brings you Jigs, Reels, Rags, Bluegrass, Quebecois and Oldtime fiddle songs that will get you playing, dancing, singing, eating and drinking along!
In the Celtic tradition of The Session, the public house...the Pub, becomes the venue for experienced fiddle music players to jam on well known tunes and share the songs as an open music source and continue the human oral tradition of communally playing and learning fiddle songs.
A friendly jam of all ages and playing levels, Everyone welcome! Bring your fiddle, guitar, bass, banjo, accordion, pennywhistle, whatever! and come and learn some new tunes and play familiar favourites with us.
We'll have guests fiddlers at each monthly Session. Some of Canada's greatest fiddle players will share songs they've picked up from the corners of Canada and beyond.
XEFIRA & ELENA SPANU
11.00
Get ready for an evening of musical storytelling, spell-casting and adventure, as Xefira and Elena share original tunes and find common ground in their compositional journeys and processes.
Elena Spanu at the age of 2 pointed to the television screen where children were playing the violin and declared ‘I want that.’ To this day she still wonders what compelled that little spirit to ask for such a thing. Elena continues to explore this question through her desire to express through music that which words can’t. From melodies about flowers to musical odes to the ocean, Elena captures the spirit and essence of the things that move her in the music she creates.
Xefira (she/they) is a trans-genre fiddle player emerging from deep cover, where she’s been crafting a zine’s worth of queer & joyful new tunes. After rocking the bluegrass world for 7 years with Switchback Road, Xefira is stretching their wings & breaking binaries to bring you pirate dances & soup jigs, backed up by the incredible Lea Kirstein (Medusa) and firebrand sibling Rosemary Ganton.
Prepare to dive into reel-infested waters for a whimsical, genre-twisting good time.