New and improvised music for spring – livestream and produced online video music sure to take us far from shore, enjoyed from the safe harbours of our…

Shauna DeGruchy (trombone) India Gailey (cello) Devin Wesley (bassoon) Ellen Gibling (harp) b a n d As a result of modulations, sidebands are the…

Meredith Bates, violin, Peggy Lee, cello, and Aram Bajakian, guitar, are three highly respected West Coast musicians, making waves on the North…

Brian Borcherdt, Kim Barlow, Mairi Chaimbeul, and Sahara Jane have developed unexpectedly into a new musical entity while they’ve been improvising in…

Joel Miller revisits the music from his ECMA-winning album Dream Cassette and UNSTOPPABLE. Influenced by his daughter’s listening of Virgin Radio pop…

On-Line from Rimouski — Éric Normand and Robin Servant both develop a unique and roundabout way of playing their instrument like you've never heard…

If you remove me from the hinge we can swing freely on the breeze Seven pianos you say? In an underground bunker? The answer was immediate and…

Open Borders is an international music group based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Open Borders creates original compositions as well as reworks old…

India Gailey is a cellist, composer, and improviser who crosses many eras and genres, most often performing the realms of classical and experimental…

New pieces for piano by Atlantic composers Emily Doolittle, Sandy Moore, Richard Gibson and more. The music on this program comes from an upcoming…

Both a subsection of the larger Upstream Ensemble and a group unto itself, the Upstream Quartet features 4 improvising composers, drawing upon a…

Five guitar improvisors each on their own paths meet for the first time in performance, followed by the audience’s discussion of what is involved with…

The Crofts / Adams / Pearse is Tim Crofts, Norman Adams and Lukas Pearse, three of Eastern Canada’s most active and exciting musicians in improvised…

Janice Isabel Jackson (composer and performer) will present a cycle of 13 solo songs entitled Oh Death based on poetry by artist Annie Martin which…

 (Joanne Hatfield, Lukas Pearse, Evan Syliboy, Gina Burgess, Shawnee Paul and Aaron Prosper) An intimate musical setting of Mi’kmaw songs and stories…

Open Waters Festival 2021: New Music for the New Decade! A new event streamed online each day from January 6th - 16th, 2021. Welcome to the Open…

Complex, intricate, idiosyncratic, and rockin’—those are the adjectives that best describe this cross-border collaboration between Vancouver guitarist…

The Teleet Ensemble with Janice Isabel Jackson (voice), Arash Delavar (guitar), Mohammad Sahraei (tar, setar, beghlama, and hand drum) are joined by…

Taral Naik and Andrew Miller are two competent musicians of rhythm in their own right. In collaboration, Taral and Andrew perform a series of North…

Excentrés is a network formed by creative music organisations working in areas outside of major Canadian centres. 8 composers/ improvisors from…

NEW MUSIC FOR THE NEW YEAR / MUSIQUE NOUVELLE POUR LE NOUVEL AN NEVER THE SAME RIVER TWICE... UPSTREAM MUSIC ASSOCIATION WELCOMES YOU TO THE OPEN…

 Elevation - rising to the occasion with improvised music, unusual instruments and instruments played unusually.  Montreal’s extended technique…

 22 years ago, in February of 1997 Symphony Nova Scotia first joined forces with the original Upstream Ensemble to present a unique collaborative…