pan-genre orchestralimprovisation, composition & conductionensembles, concert series, festivals, recordings, workshops and symposiaHalifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaThe Upstream Music Association (UMA) is a professional arts organization which exists to contribute to the growth of a vibrant cultural community by nurturing the development and presentation of innovative musical works that explore the relationships among composition, performance and improvisation in a cooperative and collective spirit.The Upstream Music Association is an organization that thinks globally and acts locally and abroad. We strive to strike a balance of activities that are rooted in our sense of place through performance, education and cooperation and attract the attention of he rest of the world through touring Upstream artists, distribution of our recordings and presentation and collaboration with international musicians. Our vision is that the UMA, through local, regional, national and global activities will participate in the worldwide development of a new kind of new music that is spontaneous, authentic and relevant. It is within us waiting to be discovered. Our mission is to bring it back alive.Upstream Music’s 5th Annual
SONIC COURAGE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
of pan-genre orchestral music
presents
Fred Frith and friends
June 20th to 23rd, 2007 at Dal Arts Centre and Bus Stop Theatre
All Concerts $20/$17 – All Events Pass: $50/$45 (not incl workshops)
Zappa meets Sun Ra meets Boulez. Where rock, world, jazz and new/improvised music meet. Don't miss international powerhouse electric guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith, who has played with Brian Eno, John Zorn’s Naked City, Ikue Mori, Tom Cora, Zeena Parkins, and on recordings from The Residents and René Lussier to Amy Denio.
Fred is here to perform in three distinctive concerts with Halifax’s Upstream musicians and visiting-artists, drummer Pierre Tanguay (Montreal) and bass and circuitry wizard Lisle Ellis (NYC). At the festival Opening Reception he will perform solo and as a guest with bassist Lukas’s Pearse’s Live Animal sampling trio w/ drummer Doug Cameron and pianist Tim Crofts and with the Ellis/Tanguay/Cram ETC Trio. At Friday’s Encounters concert we will hear composer Frith’s Freedom in Fragments performed by Halifax Sax (Oore, Mitchell, Hatfield and Cram) and guitarist Frith in trios with Ellis and Tanguay and NS guitarist Daniel Heikalo and Tanguay as well as a new septet by Upstream Artistic Director Paul Cram. Saturday’s Orchestral Manoeuvres will feature the 17-piece Upstream Orchestra performing compositions by Frith, Ellis and Halifax’s own Jeff Reilly.
The Sonic Courage International Festival offers the listening public a sizzling sonic atmosphere where sparks fly and musical solutions ferment. SCIF will take place in Halifax at the Bus Stop Theatre at 2203 Gottingen Street and the Dalhousie Arts Centre, 6101 University Avenue on the Dalhousie University Campus in the Sir James Dunn Theatre and surrounding classrooms.
Tickets are available on-line from Jazzeast www.jazzeast.com
or phone: 492-2225
For further information: www.upstreammusic.org (902)461-1232
Upstream Music Association is a non-profit society registered in the Province of Nova Scotia. Tax-deductible donations are received at: PO Box 36040, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J3S9
Sponsors include: The Canada Council for the Arts Department of Canadian HeritageNova Scotia Tourism and CultureHalifax Municipality Craig Foundation SOCAN Foundation Canadian Music Centre Lyle Tilley Davidson Jazzeast Dalhousie Music DepartmentEVENTS SCHEDULE
Wednesday, June 20th
Creative Music Workshops
At the Dalhousie Arts Centre
Masterclasses: - 11 am to 1 pm $20
Guitar Masterclass: Room 121 – Fred Frith.
Percussion Masterclass: Room 111 – Pierre Tanguay
Bass/circuitry Masterclass: MacAloney Room – Lisle Ellis
Orchestral Improvisation Workshop: Rm 121- 2 pm to 5 pm $30
with Frith, Ellis, and Tanguay
Limited Enrollment: www.upstreammusic.org for criteria
E-mail:
[email protected] to register.Thursday, June 21st
Opening Reception
Fred Frith solo and w/Live Animal Trio & Cram/Tanguay/Ellis ETC Trio
8 pm - Bus Stop TheatreFriday, June22nd
Encounters
Halifax Sax, Frith , Ellis, Tanquay , and Heikalo
8 pm – Sir James Dunn Theatre
Late night jam
w/ TFC Trio (Jeff Torbert, guitar, Adam Fine/bass, Doug Cameron/drums)
10:30 pm – Bus Stop Theatre $5Saturday, June23rd
The State of the Art
Panel with Fred Frith, Lisle Ellis, and Pierre Tanguay
3 pm – MacAloney Room, Dalhousie Arts Centre
Orchestral Manoeuvres
with the Upstream Orchestra. Works by Reilly, Ellis and Frith
8 pm – Sir James Dunn Theatre, Dal Arts Centre. $20/$17
