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Part of Open Waters Festival 2021
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…
Part of Open Waters Festival 2021
The Crofts / Adams / Pearse is Tim Crofts, Norman Adams and Lukas Pearse, three of Eastern Canada’s most active and exciting musicians in improvised…
Part of Open Waters Festival 2021
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…
Part of Open Waters Festival 2021
(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…
Part of Open Waters Festival 2020
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Part of Open Waters Festival 2020
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Part of Open Waters Festival 2020
Become a member to access this media. Membership is $10 and all members receive a $5.00 discount to all Upstream Music events in the 2023-24 season, as well as access to exclusive website content.
Part of Open Waters Festival 2020
Become a member to access this media. Membership is $10 and all members receive a $5.00 discount to all Upstream Music events in the 2023-24 season, as well as access to exclusive website content.
Become a member to access this media. Membership is $10 and all members receive a $5.00 discount to all Upstream Music events in the 2023-24 season, as well as access to exclusive website content.
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22 years ago, in February of 1997 Symphony Nova Scotia first joined forces with the original Upstream Ensemble to present a unique collaborative…
Open Borders is an international music group based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Open Borders creates original compositions as well as reworks old…
Improvisor, composer, educator and guitarist Geordie Haley will be hosting and curating an open invite improvisation session at the Marquee Club.
Sbot N Wo ("Spoiled Brats of the New World Order" (thank you, Pat Robertson!), (voice and electronics) presents "Qu'Appelle". Communication, memory…
The work of bold and innovative young composers, performers and improvisors studying at the Fountain School of Performing Arts will come to life in…
The Canadian New Music Network (CNMN) / Réseau canadien pour les musiques nouvelles (RCMN) is a network of artists, ensembles, orchestras, production…
Part of Open Waters Festival '19
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Bassist, composer, and educator Tom Easley has earned a reputation as one of Eastern Canada's finest jazz bassists. Two-time East Coast Music Award…
Way North is the best kind of musical collaboration, one born out of the joy of playing together. Way North was formed in Brooklyn in 2014 by three…
Voice Dance II – Tectonic Shift is a choreography, an opera, and a performance art piece created and performed by Janice Isabel Jackson on metalsmith…
The Modum Trio mark their premiere performance with unrestrained artistic facility, and with a propensity to turn what’s inside “out”. With an…
In vernacular Farsi the word Teleet, borrowed from Persian cuisine, is used to imply a blend, mix, or collage of different, even unlikely, ingredients…
Gillian Smith, violin and Jennifer King, piano will perform works for solo violin and solo piano as well as violin and piano duos by contemporary…