David Lee

by Annie Corrigan / 2018 Sound Symposium XIX
June 19, 2018

Double bassist David Lee spent years in the Toronto music and art scene, playing bass and cello in a variety of settings. His long tenure with the influential improvising group Bill Smith Ensemble included the LPs Rastafari with Leo Smith, and Visitation with Joe McPhee. Also the author of books on jazz and other subjects, […]

Raven Chacon

by Annie Corrigan / 2018 Sound Symposium XIX
June 18, 2018

Raven Chacon is a composer of chamber music, a performer of experimental noise music, an installation artist and a member of the American Indian arts collective Postcommodity. Chacon has presented his work in different contexts at Vancouver Art Gallery, La Biennale di Venezia – Biennale Musica, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, San Francisco Electronic Music […]

Jack Etchegary

by Annie Corrigan / 2018 Sound Symposium XIX

Jack Etchegary, a St. John’s percussionist and composer, is currently completing his fourth year of music studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland, pursuing a B.Mus. in composition. As a performer, Jack has been involved in several music festivals, has recorded and performed with St. John’s groups including Soap Opera, Property, Dame Nature, Mary Dear, and Kat […]

AE Bridger

by Annie Corrigan / 2018 Sound Symposium XIX, All News
June 17, 2018

AE Bridger is a songwriter and composer from St. John’s. The past few years have seen AE Bridger working with large ensembles of brass, reeds, and strings to stage concerts of original works everywhere from concert halls, to living rooms, to the steps of the LSPU Hall. Steeped in classic progressive rock and psychedelic pop, and […]

Michael Boyle

by Annie Corrigan / 2018 Sound Symposium XIX

Michael Boyle is a native of Lavey in South Derry Ireland who now lives in St. John’s Newfoundland. He has a number of poems published in the “The Antigonish Review” and “Dalhousie Review.” In 2014 he won the Arts and Letters prize for poetry and his first poetry collection “Whins from the Back Hill” is […]

Delf Maria Hohmann

by Annie Corrigan / 2018 Sound Symposium XIX
June 16, 2018

Delf Maria Hohmann sings and plays folk music mainly from North America, and relies on an impressive repertoire of traditional and contemporary songs, accompanying himself on guitar, banjo, dulcimer, concertina and autoharp. The songs in English, French, Yiddish, German, Inuktitut, and Cree tell the stories and concerns of immigrants, fishermen, lumberjacks, and natives.

Big Space

by Annie Corrigan / 2018 Sound Symposium XIX, Night Music

Since forming in 2013, Big Space has performed many sets at prominent music clubs in St. John’s, as well as the Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival, the Music at Harbourside series, and the Lawnya Vawnya festival. They have also been featured at the Sound Symposium and often host the Sound Symposium’s Night Music.

Amy Brandon

by Annie Corrigan / 2018 Sound Symposium XIX, All News
June 15, 2018

Amy Brandon‘s mixture of guitar and electroacoustic music has been described as ‘… mesmerizing’ (Musicworks Magazine), ‘… a model of classical guitar clarity’ (The WholeNote) and ‘[a] clashing of bleakness with beauty’ (Minor 7th). Holding degrees in jazz and composition, she is completing a PhD in music cognition and guitar at Dalhousie University in Halifax, […]

Susan Alcorn

by Annie Corrigan / 2018 Sound Symposium XIX

One of the world’s premiere musical innovators on her instrument, Baltimore-based Susan Alcorn has taken the pedal steel guitar far beyond its traditional role in country and western swing music. Known among steel guitarists for her virtuosity and authenticity in a traditional context, Alcorn first paid her dues in Texas country & western bands. Soon […]

Atomic Clock

by Annie Corrigan / 2018 Sound Symposium XIX, All News, Night Music
June 14, 2018

Atomic Clock is an improvisation-based experimental jam band combining elements of rock, electronica and jazz with atmospheric, ambient soundscapes. Comprised of Tiber Reardon, Josh Ward, Chris Donnelly, and Michelle LaCour, Atomic Clock creates music on the fly, with sounds, riffs, hooks and beats generated naturally. Each performance is unique, and each piece is a musical […]