Co-presented by NUMUS, the Guelph Jazz Festival, the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, and the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph

CONCERT 1

Thursday, February 5, 2009 - 8pm
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
Collisions: Kevin Breit and Jesse Stewart

Tickets - $20 general; $12 student
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This concert will re-unite guitar wizard Kevin Breit (whose performing/recording credentials include work with Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson, kd lang and many others) with percussionist (and former NUMUS Artistic Director) Jesse Stewart. Together they will perform a concert of improvised music to celebrate the release of their new recording Collisions on the C3R label.

CONCERT 2

Friday, February 6, 2009 - 8pm
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
Mott-ley Crew: David Mott and Friends

Tickets - $20 general; $12 student
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This concert will showcase the work of acclaimed Canadian composer, improviser, and educator David Mott including his extended composition Downtown Runout, performed by the David Mott Quintet, a group that a 2004 review in Musicworks magazine described as coming “as close to perfect creative expression as it’s possible to get.” The program will also feature a performance of Jetstream and a newly commissioned work for a nine piece ensemble that will feature some of Ontario’s finest improvising musicians and celebrated Nova Scotian bass clarinetist Jeff Reilly.


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