New Works Calgary and Tadpole Collective: Naomi McCarroll-Butler (MTL) + Jelly Ear (TO) + Local Guest

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For this third show we’ve teamed up with local curatorial collective Tadpole to offer a weekend of East-West Canadian creative music exchange, featuring workshops and performances from Montréal’s Naomi McCarroll-Butler and Toronto’s Jelly Ear ensemble, as well as a local Calgary musical guest (TBA!!).

Emblematic of many musicians coming out of Toronto and Montréal’s voraciously cross-pollinating musical hotbeds, Montréal’s Naomi McCarroll-Butler and the musicians of Toronto’s Jelly Ear – Cory Harper-Latkovich, Yang Chen, and Sara Constant – work across multiple genres and traditions, including free jazz, comprovisation, modal systems, notated classical music, and more. McCarroll-Butler improvises on winds, creates tuning systems, and builds her own sculptural musical instruments. Jelly Ear creates a-historical improvised musical experiences based on medieval and renaissance scores. Each of its members also create variously as composers and performers with robust individual and collaborative practices.

Not only are McCarroll-Butler and Jelly Ear intensely active as musical creators, they are also active in grassroots cultural production through activities that include community organizing, teaching, self-producing and producing for others, curating series, mentoring, and many other creative expressions. Through years of fertile musical relationship-building, collective creation, and practices of rigorous individual musicianship, each of them offers unique and de-hierarchicalized approaches to musical value, thoroughly rooted in values of curiosity, experimentation, and collaboration.

We recognize a similarity of ethos between these musicians and many in the Calgary community, which is steeped in histories of collective DIY production. We’re excited to generate what we envision will be a fruitful exchange between Eastern Canadian and Calgarian creative musical cultures.

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New Works Calgary and Tadpole Collective: Naomi McCarroll-Butler (MTL) + Jelly Ear (TO) + Local Guest

Date/Time
Saturday, March 15, 2025
6:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Location
Theatre 1308
1308 Edmonton Trl
Calgary, Alberta
Canada, T2E 3K7

Price
$17-27

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Website
https://www.showpass.com/naomi-mccarroll-butler-mtl-jelly-ear-to-local-guest/#location

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