FLUTE gone WILD: an anti-genre collaborative mashup
About this Event
FLUTE gone WILD powered by MusicFit Calgary FEATURING Jaye Willow Marsh, The WildFlute
An EAST vs WEST concert, live premiere, and art afternoon that CELEBRATES Canadian music-making with an open stage of surprise guests, a keynote chat with Jaye Willow Marsh who is bringing her Flute in the Wild multi-disciplinary project to Calgary from Ontario to connect with music and musicians across genres and landscapes.
Mike Schwartz of MusicFit Calgary is filling the stage with the best variety of local indie acts before he chats with Jaye about her project and she shares some of the music from her second project album which is launching at this event. She will be performing with two of the best classical flutists in Calgary as well as with her neofolk band, Aphrodite Unbound.
This is an epic show that connects indie with classical with improvised music all through a lens of Canada's unmatched landscapes.
Jaye, with her partner Rikki of Aphrodite Unbound, is crossing the country to get here as a VIA Rail Artist on Board and she will be sharing their improvised music that they will perform in the same wild spaces that her project composers were inspired by.
You've never experienced an epic collaboration of artists and ideas and connection like this. Don't miss out!
There will be an afterparty at a secret location, get your tickets here and it will be revealed to you before the day of the show!
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MORE INFORMATION:
Here is how Jaye describes her project:
"For my Flute in the Wild project, I commission new pieces from Canadian composers inspired by their favourite Canadian wild space. I record them commercially and make the scores available for all flutists to learn and play to share Canadian music-making.
As part of this project I hire musicians, innovative filmmakers, sound engineers, cover designers, publicity and marketing professionals, and I travel to perform these pieces for new audiences.
I released the first album in 2021 with the help of grants from FACTOR and Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. The second album in the project is fan-funded and features western Canadian composers and wild spaces, and I’m so excited to launch it in Calgary! I have recorded all the new pieces, they are just beautiful, and I even wrote a piece of my own for flute and fx pedals that I know you’ll love.
My goal has always been to celebrate and amplify Canadian artistic voices at home and internationally and I do this through personally connecting with musicians around the world, being a guest on podcasts, active social media activities, and performing.
This is why I am crossing the country by train from Toronto to Calgary, to connect with people along the way and get the word out that we have fantastic home-grown composers and music-makers worth playing and listening to. I need some help now to get the message amplified that Canada has a rich resource of composers and performers!
Help me connect East to West and support the recording release and performance of the Flute in the Wild, Western volume!
I will also be improvising and composing music in the same spaces that my composers were inspired by for the pieces they wrote for me! I am proud to have been chosen as a Artist on Board where I’ll be playing several times per day on board and in the wild along my route to Calgary. If you’re a musician, you can jam with me!
Here is how you can participate in the adventure!
· Join me direct in Calgary for the keynote concert and celebration.
·A donation to the project Go Fund Me is gratefully accepted and goes to funding the recording project and the concert. https://gofund.me/8d9962ad8
· If you know someone who just might be into supporting arts in this very direct way, please send them this info!
Agenda
🕑: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
SURPRISE Guests from the geniuses at MusicFit
🕑: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Flute in the Wild vol. 2 album launch with J. Willow Marsh, the WildFlute
🕑: 08:30 PM - 10:30 AM
SECRET AFTERPARTY
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
CAD 11.98 to CAD 33.28
