Please join us for a meet and greet with 2015-2016 Improviser-in-Residence Douglas Ewart in Waterloo!

This session of Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series session is titled Change of the Century: How Ornette Coleman Transformed Improvised Music. The session will present David Lee. He is the author of The Battle of the Five Spot: Ornette Coleman and the New York Jazz Field. Taking Coleman’s critically important 1959 engagement at…

Please join us for an afternoon with composer, musician, visual artist, craftsman, inventor, and educator Douglas R. Ewart. Mr. Ewart will talk about his transdisciplinary project Crepuscule, which he has expanded globally during the past decade. He will also discuss his intermedia work such as the sound installation Rio Negro. He will facilitate a communal…

The International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) is happy to announce that its 2016 event will take place in Waterloo and Toronto, Ontario, Canada, hosted by Wilfrid Laurier University from May 12th through 15th.

Gayle Young, James Harley: Music for instruments, electronics, and soundscapes. 8:00 pm $20 or PWYC

This Thurdsay at Noon Concert at the University of Guelph showcases the Guelph Jazz Festival with New-York based world music ensemble, Banda Magda.  South American rhythm create the pulse of this energizing group of friends that sing in 5 different languages in a global mix of colour and sound. Concerts start at 12:10 p.m. SHARP…