"HEAVY METAL KLEZMER", members of Weather Station/Rheostatics/Steve Reich :: AUG 17 @ BRIGHT ROOM
Schedule
Sun, 17 Aug, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Staircase Cafe Theatre | Hamilton, ON
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📢 Announcing @thebrightroomhamont 📆 SUNDAY AUGUST 17
🕑 730p
💰 $20 / PWYC / NOTAFLOF
💡 The Bright Room (entry at the back of the building, via parking lot)
"HEAVY METAL KLEZMER" is:
🎸 Myk Freedman ▪︎ Brooklyn/Toronto
🥁 Dave Clark ▪︎ T.O., Rheostatics, Western Slang
🎹 Tania Gill ▪︎ T.O., Steve Reich, Weather Station
🎷 Peter Lutek ▪︎ T.O., Tom Richards, Western Slang
🔊 Michael Herring ▪︎ T.O., Peripheral Vision, W.S.
“Lap-steel whiz Myk Freedman excels at intensely evocative instrumentals that draw on Dixieland, klezmer and avant-garde jazz. His aesthetic is wistful yet subtly surreal.” -Time Out New York
Composer, leader, and performer Myk Freedman is a Toronto native and two-time Canada Council for the Arts grant recipient. Myk is an active member in the Brooklyn creative music scene and can regularly be heard in various projects and ad hock ensembles led by local luminaries. Since 2001 he’s lead the Toronto ensemble Saint Dirt Elementary School, a nine piece junk yard jazz band dedicated to his numerous tunes. In Brooklyn he fronts Myk Freedman and the Mykfreedmans, a quintet of distinctly unique improvisers who interpret his music. He is also a consummate member of Kenny Warren’s otherworldly country band Laila and Smitty, Joey Weisenburg’s Hadar Ensemble specializing in modern Jewish vocal music, Yoshie Fruchter’s Turkish-Americana quartet the Sandcatchers and Jason Ditzian’s Myrtle Street Klezmer, an ecstatic exploration into the past, present & future of klezmer, based out of Greenfield, MA.
Myk has performed with John Zorn, William Parker, Elliot Sharp, Cyro Baptista, Erik Friedlander, Kenney Wessel, and many others. His compositions have been recorded by his own groups, as well as by The MK Groove Orchestra, In a China Shop, and Laila and Smitty. The Toronto duo Martin & Haynes, has released two records dedicated to his music. In 2008, Myk worked with iconoclast John Oswald, arranging Strauss’ music for the Sun Ra Solar Arkestra.
SPECIAL GUESTS: Hamilton Instrumental Prog-rockers OBNOXIOUS & #HamOnt space-rockers OCEAN MONUMENT.
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Where is it happening?
Staircase Cafe Theatre, 27 Dundurn St N,Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
