"The beginning of Upstream for me was a phone call from Bob Bauer, who was a CBC music producer at the time. We had just met a few days earlier when I…

"In December 1989, I hired Jeff Reilly to play on a media score I was recording at Solar Audio. We had never played together before, so we went into…

Happy 30th Anniversary Upstream!!   "I recall how it all began with a recording session in the legendary CBC Studio "H". I had recently arrived in…

Tonight we would have been gathering to commemorate and continue the amazing musical and cultural experiment begun at the St. Mary's Art Gallery and…

Dear Upstream members, fans and friends, We will be postponing our next 2 events: -Upstream Ensemble with Alan Syliboy and the Thundermakers on…

POSTPONED Musically and artistically expansive Mi’Kmaw group Alan Syliboy and the Thundermakers will join Halifax’s new music and improvisation group…

POSTPONED Bringing together both the founders of Upstream and the flourishing creative music descendants keeping the Halifax scene healthy, a…

Following the concert with Symphony Nova Scotia at the Open Waters Festival 2020, Andrew MacKelvie was awarded the Paul Cram Creation Award. Andrew…

Pictures from Open Waters Festival 2020.

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…

Photo Album: No Silenz & The Upstream Quartet, December 1, 2019

Open Company is an homage to UK improvising guitarist Derek Baily’s long-running Company series, where the artistic and the social merged, with often…