October 17, 2016: Less than a week now until our concert at the Trailside Cafe with Kelley Mooney. This is such a fantastic venue and Kelley’s voice is amazing… please come join us! Here is the link for tickets:
http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1315007
September 20, 2016: What a fantastic night at the CD Release this past Sunday! We just want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who came out to the CD Release concert for Lost Time last night… it was so much fun sharing our music and our album with you all! We are so grateful to everyone for the amazing support and generosity you have shown us since we burst on to the Charlottetown music scene a mere 18 months ago, hard to believe so much has happened since then!
Next step: off to Contact East in Saint John, NB for our showcase on Friday afternoon!
September 15, 2016: Only a few days away now from the CD Release at Florence Simmons Performance Hall! We have the CDs in our hands now and we’re so thrilled with how they have turned out. Tickets to the CD release are $25 and will include a copy of the CD - if you’re not coming to the CD release, you can buy your copy of ‘Lost Time’ for $20 from any ASM member, and you will be able to download the CD online - we will post those links for online sales once we have them. We will also be announcing some details of our upcoming season at the CD Release on Sunday night - we have some exciting plans and can’t wait to share them with you!
July 21, 2016: Working on the final edits and mixes for our debut album, to be called ‘Lost Time’, which will be released on the 18th of September at the Florence Simmons Performance Hall in Charlottetown. It’s amazing that we are less than two months from releasing our debut album!
July 16, 2016: It was great to work with John Connolly as part of the PEISO Presents show for the Chautauqua festival in Summerside tonight! John worked with us in October 2015 to help us record our EP and we had a chance to play with him then, and tonight it was such a joy to play those songs together. He has such a warm voice and such a personality with the audience!
May 21, 2016: We won the Music PEI award! Total disbelief… we were nominated with such a strong group of classical and jazz players, we were just thrilled to be included. Thank you so much to everyone who voted for us, it’s been a fantastic year and we can’t wait to see where things go from here!
March 22/16: We are so excited and honoured to be nominated for a Music PEI award for Achievement in Classical and Jazz! After barely a year in existence, it’s hard to believe that when we first got together in March of 2015 that we would be here a year later!
Here is a link to the article about the awards on the CBC PEI website:
Feb/2016: We really enjoyed our recent collaborations with both Sirens choir and Dr. Karem Simon at UPEI in January. Such a variety of concerts and musically rewarding experiences! Next on the agenda is a concert on March 6th, 2016 at the Haviland Club.
Here are some in rehearsal shots from our recent recital ‘Strings Attached II’ with Dr. Karem Simon, clarinet, at the UPEI Department of Music Dr. Steel Recital Hall. This performance included both the Weber and Brahms clarinet quintets and was quite the rewarding challenge for 4 of our members: Sean Kemp and Karen Graves, violins; Jeffrey Bazett-Jones, viola; and Natalie Williams Calhoun, cello.
Here are some shots from our recent collaboration with the UPEI Department of Music for a lunch hour recital on Friday, January 29th. We were so happy to perform chamber music with Justin Amador, French Horn; Sarah Eddie, French Horn; Marc DesRoches, oboe; Emily Proude, saxophone; Leah Jordan, clarinet; and Johanna Vessey, clarinet. This was such a fantastic opportunity for the students and such fun for us, we hope we get asked back to do it all again with some more wonderful students!
November 23/15: The concert with Duane Andrews on Saturday, November 21 at St. Paul’s was a blast! Fingers crossed we get more chances in the future to play with this amazing artist; lots of great music and challenges for us in this program!
September 17/15: What a great night last night at the John Brown Grille! Many thanks to Music PEI, Contact East, John Brown Grille and our fellow performers, Kelley Mooney, Dylan Menzie and Count and the Cuban Cocktail for a great evening!
Island Live captured some wonderful shots - here are a few:
