Montreal Cultural Calendar

Blacks’ Myths
is a band founded by composer and bassist Luke Stewart with drummer Warren "Trae" Crudup, and has since developed into a sonic research and performance project concerned with the idea of History, of Memory, of the power of creating a tuned state of being. The journey through Sound lies the meditation on the history of blackness, the personal memory lens of an increasingly complex world full of alternate facts and rehashed stories. History thus becomes Mythology, in the ways in which we experience its weighty meanings in our lives. Through accessing the power of Sound, the story unfolds in physical frequencies that can re-tune the sub-conscious being otherwise known as the Spirit. The specific historical themes come from lived experience, stories told.
Toronto-based improviser
Karen Ng
has established herself as a unique musical force nationally and internationally, performing with some of Canada’s most prized artists such as The Weather Station, Andy Shauf, Do Make Say Think and many more. One of Canada’s leading improvisers “with a breathtakingly wide musical scope” (Musicworks) she also collaborates regularly with ad hoc ensembles in the wider improvising scene across Canada, in Europe and the US.
Years after the final chords of their old punk rock band, Vancouver guitarists and composers
Alvaro Rojas and Cole Schmidt
reunite and celebrate with a new LP and repertoire of guitar duets,
Nondual
.
Riffs, counterpoint, drones and improvisations twist and turn in the contemporary style. Songs, minimalism, collage and abstractions are all invited to the block party, and hang around in the park until the streetlights turn on.
Cole Schmidt
composes music for multi-genre improvising psychedelic chamber jazz ensemble SICK BOSS, drone improv unit LETTR OPENR, and the collaborative project with cellist and composer Peggy Lee, FOREVER STORIES OF: MOVING PARTIES.
As a guitarist, he performs regularly with Marin Patenaude, KneeJerk, and Peggy Lee’s Echo Painting. Cole has been curating DIY shows in Vancouver for over 15 years. He was part of the multidisciplinary outfit Sawdust Collector, and works as an Artistic Director for the Vancouver International Jazz Festival and Barking Sphinx Performing Society.
Alvaro Rojas
creates adventurous and colourful music that combines and recontextualizes the world around him. His diverse projects include Afro Peruvian prog - jazz (GRAN KASA), drippy electronic tinged guitar+string quartet soundscapes (MUSIC FOR 22), and an upcoming release on Susie Ibarra’s Habitat sounds label based on translating the patterns of nature.
His concert pieces have been performed by many of Canada’s finest new music groups, including the Turning Point Ensemble, Aventa Ensemble, Microcosmos String Quartet and others, and has collaborated with artists such as Susana Baca and Georgia Anne Muldrow.
Presenting a mega-watt collab from local luminaries
James Goddard
(sax + more),
Jahsun
(percussion)
Markus Lake
(bass),
Cabral Jacobs
(saxophone) &
Engone Endong
(electronics). Hot!

Caro D - Hey Man
The Show Continues (in January) - Help Me to the Finish Line
Dirty Cheetah - Demon Possessed
Co-presented with
NOW Society
Dirty Cheetah
was formed in 2017 by Frank and Pat when he came back from Winnipeg . Both longtime friends were separated when Pat had to move to Manitoba. Frank committed to learn to play guitar so they could start a band if Pat ever came back to Montreal. Obviously, Frank kept his promise and Pat came back. This is how the two greasy hands mechanics started hammering their guitars. They soon got joined by the rhythm section of a roller derby jammer and a rock'n biker.
Pat Panic - Guitar - Lead Vocal
Dirty Frank - Guitar - Vocal
Don Lucas - Bass - Vocal
Lynda Kicks - Drums
Caro D. -
Making music with a strat with overdrive an amp, lots of heart and whoever else is there :)
The Show Continues (In January)
is an eccentric alternative rock band that specializes in theatrical performances and conceptual music, to create a universe of their own.