Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

July 8, 2021 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Blue Mountains Theatre, June 13 6/10 This was a curious aesthetic choice. Where Ed Kuepper has often disguised his voice’s relatively narrow range by colouring it in different instrumental ways, here the default context was loud. As in LOUD. The extreme volume from his distortion-tortured electric guitar smothered his singing…

June 12, 2021 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Verbrugghen Hall, May 30 7/10 You have to squint pretty hard to see any sort of silver lining for live music amidst the pandemic, but here was one. COVID drove the New York-based Linda May Han Oh (bassist of choice for guitarist Pat Metheny, trumpeter Dave Douglas and guitarist Joe…

June 2, 2021 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Camelot Lounge, May 23 7.5/10 The first hint of where this band could go came five minutes into the opening Birth Song. Jeremy Rose felicitously landed upon a fluttering soprano saxophone phrase that was echoed by Hilary Geddes’ guitar, and suddenly you felt the band, with pianist Zela Margossian and…