Song Experiment is a monthly song lab hosted by Cassie Norton welcoming unconventional approaches to Song Writing and Song Sharing.
Each month, a different artist and approach is featured welcoming surprise and collaboration.
Drawing/colouring supplies and big banner paper will be provided for all doodlers, so you can collaborate too!
This month we have two feature artists plus our host!
We'll be experimenting with rhythm and rhyme using both improvised and prepared material, and maybe you will be too.
Kenny Kirkwood is a Juno award-winning musician who has toured internationally in a career spanning three decades. As a saxophone player he has worked with Gord Downie, Kim Mitchell, Jacksoul, Kevin Breit, NOJO and Paul Reddick. Kenny has opened for James Brown and Al Green, and performed for Quincy Jones.
A queer bard of celtic and unknown ancestry, Kenny is thankful and humbled to live on Turtle Island. Since 2008 he has worked with Indigenous people, collaborating to build trusted partnerships and making friends. He has played sax with many award-winning Indigenous artists including Isaac Murdoch, Logan Staats, Joshua Arden Miller, Lacey Hill, Derek Miller, Cheri Maracl, Murray Porter, and The Ollivanders, in diverse genres from rock, jazz and blues, to spoken word folk, as well as traditional singing and drumming.
Harlem-born, Kenny spent his formative years in Zambia, Central Africa. His childhood friends spoke Bemba and Nyanja and other languages. Growing up around their traditional Indigenous music, he also heard local folk singers and church choirs and saw live shows of the folk-rock fusion groups of the ZAMROCK movement of the 70's in central Africa. These experiences showed him the essential value of humans making music together live, that we each bring and receive something deeply valuable everytime we make space to play together.
https://www.kennykirkwood.com/home
Callahan Connor A.K.A C-Command - song and spoken word
Callahan's poetry takes delight in a surreal and playful flow of dense rhythm and surprising rhyme. He wants to build fireworks shows in your mind, and for you to experience the joyous momentum of creative thoughts.
Cassie Norton is a Toronto based singer-songwriter, violinist/multi-instrumentalist and climate activist. Cassie tells the stories behind her lyrics with sound, using a wide timbral palette of voice, violin, octave violin, ukulele, and piano.
www.cassienorton.com
@cassienortonmusic
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