Concerts

Our bimonthly concert series is held every other Sunday (usually the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month but often more) at 7pm at Umi Café (610 Somerset Street W, Ottawa). Admission is always a suggested donation of $5 or pay what you can.

Upcoming Concerts

May 20, 2012: #52 – Craig Pedersen’s Grey Areas Album Launch

Craig says:

On May 20th, I am proud to release my solo trumpet disc, Grey Areas, in an extremely limited artist edition of 25 discs. The recording was my prime focus for the month of March, where each day I wrote, recorded and refined a new piece until I arrived at these compositions. The music of Grey Areas draws heavily on contemporary practice in trumpet playing and improvisation and explores the integration of non-binary intellectual discourse in every day life. They strive to get to the core of traditional song forms, while at the same time blowing them wide open to show how, like in life, the most interesting parts are the in-between areas, or the shades of grey, where more is alike than different.

Since recording, I have been designing and manufacturing the package. All the packaging has been painstakingly hand-crafted, from hand-folding the envelopes, to unique hand-painted watercolour covers, individually handwritten tracklistings and individually hand-written scores/notes for each piece on the album. Each package also comes with printed liner notes explaining the project. Once all 25 packages are gone, they will be gone for good.

I’m extremely excited for this project, and hope that you can make it out.

June 3, 2012: #52 - TDB

June 10, 2012: #53 - Scott Thomson and Susanna Hood.

  • Susanna Hood – voice and dance
  • Scott Thomson – trombone and composition

Details TBA

June 17, 2012: #54 - Jeff Morton

Details TBA

July 8, 2012: #55 - TBD

July 22, 2012: #56 - TBD

August 5, 2012: #57 - TBD

August 19, 2012: #58 - TBD

September 9, 2012: #59 - Huntsville

  • Ivar Grydeland – guitars, banjo, pedal steel guitar and various instruments
  • Tonny Kluften – electric bass, double bass, bass pedals and various instruments
  • Ingar Zach – percussion, tabla machine, sarangi box, sruti box, drone commander and various instruments
  • The Sound Wizard – sound

From Oslo, Norway, Huntsville’s unexpected sounds and textures, allied with echoes of traditional genres in a radical new conceptual language have been described as abstract drone Americana and yoga country.

«armed with a banjo, a double bass, a pedal steel, a bizarre tabla machine, shruti boxes and a fondness for freeing folk from its folk songs — from Santa Fe to Bombay.» Boston Weekly

Visit Huntsville online at www.huntsville.no


Past Concerts

2011/2012 Season

May 6, 2012: #51 – Heather Segger & Mark Segger
April 15, 2012: #50 - James Annett
April 1, 2012: #49 - Where is thy sting, bee?
March 18, 2012: #48 – Land of Marigold
March 4, 2012: #47 – Jeff Morton
February 19, 2012: #46 – Instant Places
February 12, 2012: #45 – Vartan Mamagonian
February 5, 2012: #44 – Sounds Like Poetry
January 29, 2012: #43 – Saul Goodman
January 22, 2012: #42 – Titanium Trio
January 8, 2012: #41 – Bruce/Wayne: the other dynamic duo
December 18, 2011: #40 – A Very Ayler Christmas!
December 4, 2011: #39 – Warren/Charbonneau/Pedersen/Wellman
November 27, 2011: #38 – Elwood Epps/John Geggie/Jesse Stewart
November 20, 2011: #37 – Generator (Molnar/Gullikson/Higney/Broscoe)
November 6, 2011: #36 – Craig Pedersen’s Birthday Concert
October 30, 2011: #35 – Heather Roche
October 16, 2011: #34 – Bean
October 2, 2011: #33 - Scott Warren/Linsey Wellman
September 18, 2011: #32 – First Anniversary Party / CD Release

2010/2011 Season

September 4, 2011: #31 – Very Quiet Music
August 21, 2011: #30 – Essoudry/Wellman
August 7, 2011: #29 – Pedersen/Wellman and Covic/Wellman
July 31, 2011: #28 – Craig Pedersen
July 17, 2011: #27 – Jesse Steward and Linsey Wellman
June 19, 2011: #26 – Bernard Stepien’s PianoLessMonk
June 12, 2011: #25 – Pedersen/Jackson
June 5, 2011: #24 – Mike Dubue
May 15, 2011: #23 – Broscoe/Gullikson/Molnar
May 8, 2011: #22 – Quentin Tolimieri and Jason Mears
May 1, 2011: #21 – Radar
April 27, 2011: SPECIAL – Mille Bayous
April 17, 2011: #20 – Ryan Purchase’s Musée
April 3, 2011: #19 – Eagles/Stewart
March 27, 2011: #18 – Jesse Stewart + Carleton U Contemporary Music Ensemble
March 20, 2011: #17 – The Kyle Brenders Quartet
March 6, 2011: #16 – Eldritch Priest’s The Brown Study
February 20, 2011: #15 – Linsey Wellman’s Ephemera/ Craig Pedersen Stuart Lake
February 13, 2011: #14 – Set 1: Sainct Laurens (Pierre-Yves Martel and Philippe Lauzier)
February 6, 2011: #13 – Adam Saikaley
January 23, 2011: #12 – Uzumaki (Broscoe, Wellman, Priest, Magill)
January 16, 2011: #11 – SBOT N WO
December 19, 2010: #10 – Bernard Stepien Orchestra Ayler/Xmas Carols Project
December 12, 2010: #9 – Darren Williams Trio
December 5, 2010: #8 – The Craig Pedersen Quartet
November 28, 2010: #7 – Litster/Marshall Rhythm Experience
November 21, 2010: #6 – Essoudry/Fairfield Percussion Duo
November 18, 2010: SPECIAL – Linsey Wellman Ephemera CD release – Club SAW
November 7, 2010: #5 – Virgule
October 17, 2010: #4 – Craig Pedersen’s Broken Compass
October 3, 2010: #3 – Ryan Purchase’s I Am Agree
September 19, 2010: #2 – Wellman/Charbonneau/Warren
September 5, 2010: #1 – Pedersen/Wellman/Purchase/Essoudry