Starry Nights
Starry Nights' Listening Party 1 from upstream music on Vimeo.
The Starry Nights Band personnel is Paul Cram/composer/conduction/sax/clarinet, Dawn Hatfield/baritone sax/flute, Ann Denny/ vocalist, Mitchell Weibe/vocalist, Geordie Haley/guitar, Tim Crofts/ keyboard, Danny Parker/bass, Jeff Reilly/ bass clarinet, Doug Cameron/drums, Lukas Pearse/ video, Susanne Chui/ dancer, Rick Waychesko/ trumpet and flugelhorn,
Starry Nights in its present form debuted on June 9th, 2011 at the new Gallery 2053 on Gottingen Street for 4 consecutive shows. They were met with an enthusiastic response. Most importantly these performances were well documented with binaural sound recording and HD video.
The Starry Nights band has included musicians Tena Palmer/voice, Shauntay Grant/voice/spoken word and Arthur Bull, guitar/harmonica in past performances.
Past performance - Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
Starry Nights Navigates Halifax musically blended elements of local geography, celestial navigation and music composition/spoken word with improvised music/dance and video processing for an existential thrill ride “Navigating Halifax” followed a suggested road map score that will consisted of several stops on the way. Band members contributed compositional fragments that animate a story or time that bumps up with the geography or culture of Halifax. We run out of gas in the Armdale Rotary and get towed out. We eat in a “Bb Restaurant”. Tena Palmer sings an ode to Halifax. We attend a spoken word concert by Shauntay Grant, we cross over the MacDonald Bridge, we get lost going to Halifax over the Mackay Bridge by going up Lady Hammond Road instead of Windsor St. We get lost in Dartmouth and look to the stars to guide us.
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