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…

GivingTuesday is a global movement for giving and volunteering, taking place each year after Black Friday. The “Opening day of the giving season,” it…

Photos from the Sam Wilson Band at The Music Room on October 18, 2020.

Upstream Music Association is pleased to present Halifax’s composer-guitarist Samantha Wilson With a lyrical sensitivity to her instrumental…

Photo by: Tom Donovan Upstream Music Association Presents: Upstream Season Launch with Upstream Quartet Featuring; Dawn Hatfield, Andrew…

On behalf of Upstream's Board of Directors, I'd like to express my enthusiasm for the 2020-2021 programme which will be unique, adapted to the…