RESIDENCY
November 6-17
Trading Places: Un Échange d’Improvisateurs
Montréal trumpeter Ellwood Epps and guitarist Vicky Mettler are guest artists for a ten-day residency with Vancouver improvising musicians. Their various interfaces about town culminate with a performance at the Roundhouse Community Centre for New Orchestra Workshop Society’s 40th Anniversary Celebration on November 16, 2017.
More info about Trading Places >>
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CONCERT
November 16, 2017 @ Roundhouse Community Centre
TICKETS: $10-30
Ellwood Epps and Vicky Mettler (Montréal) present a concert of improvised music with Vancouver Master improvisers.
‘Acoustic and electronic meets for a set of noisey improv.’ Vicky Mettler
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CONCERT
Trading Places Marathon
November 12, 7pm @ Western Front
Tickets @ Door – Suggested Donation $10
Epps and Mettler are joined by a large cast of Vancouver improvisers to play on affinities between musique actuelle and west coast improvisation. Presented with Suoni Per Il Popolo, Coastal Jazz, Music on Main, and NOW Society.
LINE UP
~ 7:30 ~ NOW Workshop Group
Brent Cross (guitar), Kenneth Schroeder (bass), Asuman Gencol (voice), Dan Potter (guitar), John Gross (tenor sax)
~ 8 ~
Sina Ettehad (kamancheh), Aram Bajakian (guitar), Marina Hasselberg (cello)
~ 8:30 ~
Vicky Mettler (guitar), James Meger (bass), Mili Hong (drums), Nikki Carter(saxophone)
~ 9 ~
François Houle (clarinet/electronics), Johanna Hauser (clarinet), Ellwood Epps (trumpet), Jeff Younger (guitar)
~ 9:30 ~
Lan Tung (erhu/voice), Barbara Adler (spoken word), M Mike Brown(clarinets)
~10 ~
Mike WT Allen (saxophones), Natasha Zrno (clarinet), Skye Brooks (drums),Lisa Butel (voice/electronics)
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Catch Vicky Mettler and Ellwood Epps play around town!
Nov 9 21:00 Merge, jouer >> improv
ft. Lisa Cay Miller (piano), Meredith Bates (violin) and more
Nov 10 20:00 Toast Collective, Sonic Psych
ft. Jordan Barnes Crouse (synth), Torsten Müller (bass), Josh Zubot (violin), Colin Cowan (bass)
Nov 12 19:00 Western Front, Marathon (more info below)
Nov 14 21:00 Gold Saucer, w/Sawdust Collector, Moving Sound
ft. Clyde Reed (bass), Viviane Houle (voice), Eden Solomon (dance), Amna Elnour (visuals)
Nov 16 20:00 Roundhouse, Concert >> TICKETS
ft. Paul Plimley (piano), Dylan van der Schyff (drums), Torsten Müller (bass), Ross Birdwise (voice/electronics), Kivanç Tatar (trumpet/electronics)
Nov 17 20:00 w/ NOW Ensemble at the Roundhouse >> TICKETS
ft. Joshua Zubot (violin), James Meger (bass), Lisa Cay Miller (piano), Skye Brooks (drums)
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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Vicky Mettler is a guitarist based in Montreal. Her current projects include a song duo Brick with Raphaël Foisy-Couture and a noise/improv quartet Dusk Scored Dark, with Mark Molnar, Bennet Beduokian and Craig Pedersen, as well as her solo project for voice, guitar and electronics. Upcoming releases include a tape with improv quartet featuring Anna Webber (US), Evan Tighe and Erik Hove as well as a debut solo guitar album.
Born in Toronto in 1976, trumpeter Ellwood Epps arrived in Montreal in 2005. Since then he has performed with Josh Zubot, Nicolas Caloia, John Heward, Jean Derome, Marshall Allen, Henry Grimes, William Parker, Mat Maneri, Axel Dorner and John Butcher. In 2008 Epps cofounded the performance space l’Envers as well as the weekly cafe series Mardi Spaghetti; the following years saw an explosion of creative musical activity in Montreal. Epps is the director of the Festival of New Trumpet Music Canada and teaches a popular series of workshops through the Studio d’Improvisatin de Montreal.
