Off Centre drang presents ALL FOLKED UP

What is folk music? It is music that appeals to the most basic human conditions: love, suffering, loss and happiness… In our northern hemisphere, it is often music that reflects the struggles that the natural world presents to the human being. But the term folk music itself is complicated – it has been adopted in such varied circumstances to designate such wildly different music.

Presented by Off Centre Music Salon’s brand-new pilot project dérangé, ALL FOLKED UP explores the exciting musical possibilities born in the moment of arrangement – or de-rrangement – of a wide variety of folk material. Featured artists are Shepherds Heard – a cross-border, cross-genre ensemble of Classically and Jazz trained musicians that uses folk music as a point of departure, Hobson’s Choice – a contemporary chamber Jazz quartet blending the improvisation of jazz with an unconventional instrumentation and approach to songwriting and paying homage to such Canadian folk songwriters as Joni Mitchell and Bruce Cockburn, and husband-and-wife piano four hands duo Inna Perkis and Boris Zarankin performing Dvo?ák’s folk-inspired Slavonic Dances.  Ethnomusicologist and guitarist Nate Renner is our host. 

dérangé is a two-concert pilot project at the intersection of Canadian Contemporary, Classical, Jazz and Folk Music celebrating a more “out of line,” interdisciplinary and creative approach to performing this repertoire.

THE VITALS

What: Concert and discussion
When: February 12, 2015
Time: 6:30 PM (pre-concert reception) & 7 PM concert
Where: The Music Gallery, 197 John Street

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