Sandy Ewen & Phillip Greenlief with Linsey Wellman & David Jackson

Catch an intimate night of improvisation by acts from across the continent presented by Everything Musicians of Ottawa and Outward (EMOO)
About this Event

EMOO presents...

Sandy Ewen & Phillip Greenlief with Linsey Wellman & David Jackson
August 15 | FONO | 7:30pm doors

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Sandy Ewen

Sandy Ewen is an experimental guitarist, artist and architect based in Houston TX. Over the last year she performed numerous gigs in Texas, Los Angeles, Toronto, New York, Boston & Mexico City. She has performed alongside Roscoe Mitchell, Keith Rowe, Lydia Lunch and many others, and has albums with Weasel Walter, Jaap Blonk, Henry Kaiser, Damon Smith and more. In 2014 she performed at San Francisco's 13th Annual Outsound New Music Summit, and she has made several appearances at Austin's annual No Idea Festival. Her groups Garden medium, Spiderwebs, Etched in the Eye & Ewen/Smith/Walter all released albums in 2016. Ewen's approach to playing is centered around found objects and extended guitar techniques.

Phillip Greenlief

Since his emergence on the west coast in the late 1970s, saxophonist/composer Phillip Greenlief has achieved international acclaim for his recordings and performances with musicians and composers in the post-jazz continuum as well as new music innovators and virtuosic improvisers. He has performed with Wadada Leo Smith, Meredith Monk, Rashaun Mitchell & Silas Reiner, and They Might Be Giants. Albums include two LANTSKAP LOGIC TRIO releases (w/ Evelyn Davis and Fred Frith), THAT OVERT DESIRE OF OBJECT with Joelle Leandre, ALL AT ONCE with FPR (Frank Gratkowski and Jon Raskin), and OH THAT MONSTER with LA punk pioneers Thelonious Monster. Recent residencies have included the Banff Center for Art and Creativity, Neue Muzik Koln, and Headlands Center for the Arts. His critical writing has been published in Artforum, Open Space (SFMOMA), Sound American, and Signal to Noise.

Lynsey Wellman

Linsey Wellman is an improvising saxophonist living in Ottawa, Canada. He is a co-founder of the Improvising Musicians of Ottawa/Outaouais (IMOO) concert series
Linsey Wellman est un saxophoniste improvisateur qui habite à Ottawa, Canada. Il est co-fondateur et co-directeur de la série de concerts Improvisation Musicale Ottawa/Outaouais (IMOO).

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• Age Restriction: This particular event is 19+, attendees may be asked to show ID.
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