About Me
Geordie Haley is a Toronto-based guitarist, composer and improviser. He has four recent recordings available at www.vergemusic.com. These records represent the depth and breadth of his endless search for new sounds: The Everytime Band "The Green Suite and Other Stories"; Geordie Haley Trio "Polar Bears"; East Delta Trio "Summer Garden Party"; and Sea of Song Trio "Blue Boat". The Everytime Band has performed at L'Off Festival in Montreal, the Toronto Jazz Festival and the Atlantic Jazz Festival in Halifax. The Geordie Haley Trio has appeared at the Guelph Jazz Festival and Glenn Hall's 416 Festival in Toronto. EXCLAIM magazine voted the Geordie Haley Trio POLAR BEARS album (featuring Nick Fraser, drums and Scott Thomson, trombone) best of 2007's improvising cds in their Destination Out section! For two years, Geordie was a co-curator of the Leftover Daylight Series at Array Music Studios, a performance series showcasing improvisation and new composition (www.ovalwindowmusic.org/leftoverdaylight). Besides his current band members, Geordie has performed with the following musicians, among others: Bruce Cassidy (trumpet), Lori Freedman (clarinet), Bill Grove (piano/woodwinds), Ruben Radding (bass), William Parker (bass), Roger Turner (drums), John Oswald (sax), Rebecca Campbell (vocals), Andrew Downing (bass), Justin Haynes (guitar), Michael Keith (guitar), Colin Fisher (sax/guitar), Dave Clark (drums) along with video artist June Pak and dancers Susie Burpee and Shannon Cooney. Please check out a wonderful video shot and edited by June Pak featuring Susie Burpee, Ronda Rindone, Joe Sorbara and Geordie Haley at www.ovalwindowmusic.org/joesorbara/projects/geosfasttrip.php . All the artwork in the photos beside the music selections is by Blair Langley. And hey, if you have a minute more please check out the video section! While living in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Geordie had the great pleasure to perform with: Sameboat (Karl Gans/drums, Michael Doherty/keys/producer/engineer); 3 People (Karl Gans/drums, Lloyd Hanson/bass); Ujamma (Kwame Dawes/vocals, Michael Doherty/keys/sax/vocals, Lisa Wilby/keys/vocals, Dave Bartlett/drums, Luis Cardoso/guitar, Chris Hunt/bass); The Exploding Meet (Mark Carmody/guitar/programming/producer/engineer, Rob Parish/bass, John Westhaver/percussion, Michael Doherty/percussion, Rob Mcfee/guitar); The Slocum Sisters (Thom Swift, guitar/vocals, Glen Ingersoll/vocals, Michael Doherty/drums, Rob Parish/bass); jazz group Out of Order (Tom Easley/bass, Alex Porter/drums, Evan Shaw/sax, Scott Marshall/sax, in Toronto, Wes Neal/bass, Marcel Aucoin/piano); and jazz artists Hans Martini/sax, Ian Sedgewick/keys, Brian Mitton/drums, Roland Bourgeois/trumpet, Brian Coughlan/sax, Joel Leblanc/guitar and Chad Macquarrie/guitar.http://cdbaby.com/cd/seaofsongtrio, http://cdbaby.com/cd/eastdeltatrio, http://cdbaby.com/cd/geordiehaleyeb, http://cdbaby.com/cd/geordiehaleytrio
