from the folks who bring you the highly entertaining
Girls Do Boys, Boys Do Girls and Tom Waits Tribute shows...
A Man Called Wrycraft presents:
THIS WOMAN'S WORK
Toronto's first Live Tribute Concert to KATE BUSH
an evening celebrating the music of the mysterious and wonderful KATE BUSH
HUGH'S ROOM - Friday, August 15th 2008 / 8:30pm sharp
Featuring 20 of Kate Bush's greatest songs including: Wuthering Heights * Army Dreamers * Cloudbusting * Under Ice * Night Scented Stock * Breathing * The Man with the Child in his Eyes * Running Up That Hill * Hounds of Love * A Mother's Comfort * Babooshka * This Woman's Work * Under The Ivy * And Dream of Sheep * Hello Earth * The Dreaming... PLUS 4 MORE
as performed by:
- Kevin Fox
- Suba Sankaran & Retrocity
- Laurel MacDonald
- Kurt Swinghammer
- Andrea Koziol
- Fides Krucker
- Jennifer Moore
- The "Suspended In Gaffa" Mini Orchestra featuring Jaron Freeman Fox
- DJ Lexifer (Legion of Green Men)
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Oliver Schroer, 52: Boundary-pushing violinist 
Well, folks, a great musician, wondrous spirit and dear old friend has left the planet. Oliver Schroer passed away on Thursday July 3rd, 2008 after a 16-month battle with leukemia.
I knew him first as my father's (Trichy Sankaran's) student. He studied anything he could get his hands (and voice) on - I remember singing at the York University recitals with him, his smiling face adding to the sheer delight of simply making music.
Later, as solo artist, with the Stewed Tomatoes and within other wild and wacky musical contexts, I watched and listened as he brought the fiddle into the world and the world to his fiddle.
Dylan Bell and I got married on April 9, 2000, and Oliver, along with many other Toronto artists, graced our East-meets-West-meets-music-night (cleverly disguised as a "Wedding Reception") by playing a song he wrote for the occasion. He used the letters of my name to create the title Sing Up Bird Above. It was magical. 
Never have I met one being who embodies the essence of what I believe music is -- a cosmic connection between the voice, body, spirit, soul and mind in free artistic play. You are truly an inspiration.
You will be so missed Oli, but never forgotten. Below are 2 of Oliver's songs Autorickshaw performed on May 29th at our Lula Lounge show with special guest Ben Grossman, as well as a song called sing up bird Above, that Oliver wrote for me on the occassion of my wedding: Humours of Aristotle:
Deep Water:
Sing Up Bird Above
 
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I have a bunch of concerts/events coming up in the next little while. Here's an overview, and click here for details . - Teaching at Yukon Summer Music Camp
July 27-Aug 2 in Whitehorse, YT Aug 3-9 in Peterborough, ON - Autorickshaw at Harbourfront for South Asia Calling! Festival
August 8, 9:30pm, Sirius Sattelite Stage, with a string quartet and a brass spetet from the Hannaford Street Silver Band Tuesday, August 12, 2008, @ Lula Lounge |
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2007 - The Year in Review |
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Since it’s taken me almost a year to get this website up and running, I should probably give you my 2007 Year in Review! This was an amazing year of touring, traveling, music-making and collaborating, from autorickshaw’s tours of India and Sweden, and directing the Collaboratory project at the Vancouver Island MusicFest (5 bands/artists performing a 90-minute musical invention created only days before the festival) to my 2-week, 6-country choral workshop tour in Europe with Dylan Bell. Also of note, my voice can now be heard in a permanent installation at the Royal Ontario Museum AND in spaaaace!!! |
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