Saturday, Nov 8- de Draad Kwartet

Saturday, Nov 8- de Draad Kwartet

Venue: 10930 84 Street NW

Date: November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM (Mountain Time)

Get ready for an unforgettable evening with de Draad Kwartet! Join us for a cozy night of improvized music from some of Edmonton's finest!

Ron de Jong (drums, cymbals, percussion) –

Drummer Ron de Jong (Edmonton - amiskwaciwâskahikan/ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ, Alberta - Treaty 6

Territory) has been creating music through free improvisation, Avant-Jazz, and other fringe

music for the better part of his fifty plus years. As the founder of the now dormant and storied

improvised music unit Vertrek Ensemble (1997-2023), de Jong collaborated alongside guitarist

Vadim Budman with local, national, and international musicians. An ongoing collaboration that

de Jong has enjoyed for many years has been an improvised music duo with guitarist Jason

Lee Scott called John Charles Tactic. Their most recent outing featured a live performance with

guest double bassist Thom Golub.

Among numerous others, de Jong has created music in performance and recordings with Thom

Golub, Jason Lee Scott, Darren Williams, Ian Birse, John Butcher, Phil Durrant, Luc Houtkamp,

Eugene Chadbourne, Marilyn Crispell, Damo Suzuki, the late Edmonton guitar maestro, Brian

Schultz, Chris Dadge, Jonathon Wilcke, Cody Oliver, Cassondra Murray, Will Scott, Pigeon

Breeders (w/ John Charles Tactic), and the late, inimitable, virtuosic, and peerless British

guitarist, Derek Bailey.

In February of 2025, de Jong launched his dream project O.N.C.E. (Operations in

Nonpermanent Collective Extemporization), an ad hoc improvised music and arts live event.

The project is modeled after Derek Bailey’s annual ‘Company’ meetings, grouping likely and

unlikely combinations of invited musicians and multidisciplinary artists through random

selection. The next O.N.C.E. event is planned for February 21, 2026, at Felice Café. An

additional privilege came this year when de Jong was invited by New Music Edmonton to put a

group together of diverse musicians for NME’s ‘Now Hear This’ festival in June. In addition to

himself, the group (O.N.C.E. More) included Thom Golub (double bass), Kelly Ruth (contact

microphones, effects pedals on weaving loom and spinning wheel) and Jacob Tran (alto

saxophone).

Thom Golub (double bass) –

Thom Golub (Edmonton - amiskwaciwâskahikan/ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ, Alberta - Treaty 6 Territory) has played double bass and bass guitar since the mid-90s. As a gifted improviser and seasoned composer, he’s collaborated with and composed for all walks of musicians in every “kind” of music. Golub is an active singer-songwriter known by his alter music-moniker ‘Thom as Fred’ with multiple record releases over the years, including his most recent ‘From Here But Not From Here’. Golub earlier this year put together an improvised music orchestra for a performance at Edmonton’s celebrated Yardbird Suite live music venue. Musicians were invited from Alberta and British Columbia he’s worked with throughout his career for an improvised music collective he formed many years ago called T.I.N (The Improvisers Network). Golub was also invited by drummer Ron de Jong to form a quartet of improvisers for the 2025 edition of New Music Edmonton’s ‘Now Hear This’ festival.

Alicia Proudfoot (harp) –

Alicia Proudfoot (Edmonton - amiskwaciwâskahikan/ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ, Alberta - Treaty 6

Territory) is an interdisciplinary artist, currently enmeshing sculpture with harp performance. She completed her BFA at the University of Alberta and MFA at NSCAD University in Halifax. Proudfoot is a practicing artist with a penchant for improvisation and soundscapes. Incorporating layers of breathing and recorded sounds from the environment around her has expanded Proudfoot’s performance by pushing her harp’s resonance to new limits. Such expansions include appendaging sculpted legs to the instrument transforming the sounds through a metal or wood conduit. She has recently completed a residency at the Banff Centre and played in concert at New Music Edmonton’s 2025 ‘Now Hear This’ festival.

Jason Lee Scott (electric guitar and effects) –

Guitarist Jason Lee Scott (Edmonton - amiskwaciwâskahikan/ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ, Alberta - Treaty 6 Territory) has been plying his trade since the aughts in “Weirdo Rock” two-piece NATL with drummer Phil Hickson. The duo has released multiple recordings over the past 20 years including their most recent EP, ‘This Day Will Soon Feel Like Yesterday’. As one half of improvised music duo John Charles Tactic (w/ drummer Ron de Jong), he’s created a raucous improvised music from Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver to New York City (NYC performance under the watchful eye and listening ears of elder statesman improviser and percussionist, Eddie Prévost). Their recent and only release is with Calgary saxophonist Jonathon Wilcke ‘John Charles Tactic w/ Jonathon Wilcke’. Scott has also been a frequent collaborator with Avant/Free Improv vets Vertrek Ensemble and is featured on the 2019 release ‘Palace of Darkened Windows’.

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