Solo guitar
Performing at Mezzetta Restaurant & Tapas Bar
Reservations recommended.
Jazz, African stories, and original narrative meet in a jam by master raconteurs Jean Pierre Makosso and Bob Barton, with Canadian guitarist/composer/improviser Brian Katz. See link below for more details (this event is part of the events at Aki Studio listed as 1PM-10PM). The price will include a number of events before the one I’m involved with.
A light, inexpensive supper will be available from Regent Park Community Catering featuring Middle Eastern, East African, and Indian cuisine.
Host: Shelley Kidwell, with Erin Rodgers, Brian Finch, Michael Parent, Sage Tyrtle, Brian Katz, Clara Bee Lavery.
Storytelling Cabaret presented in collaboration with Paintbox Bistro.
Program: Beth Anne Cole returns to the Musideum to follow up her fall equinox performance of 2014 with a spring equinox performance of her songs and poetry, accompanied on guitar by Brian Katz, with percussive accents by Roger Sader. Beth Anne, an actress, singer, writer and visual artist, is known for her storytelling abilities both within her material and around it, giving context and anecdote, and a lot of humour…you will laugh and cry!!
Brian Katz, Solo Guitar: Leaves Will Speak
This concert is an intimate yet “orchestral” journey featuring Katz’s trademark evocative compositions and perky free improvisations informed by the worlds of jazz, classical, and various world music streams.
Admission is FREE – donations gratefully appreciated. Everyone Welcome!
Happy New Year everyone! May it be a healthy, peaceful, creative, joyful, and prosperous one for you all!
I’ll be sharing the stage again with the wonderful klezmer clarinetist/flautist Jonno Lightstone for a special concert (and part lecture) at Temple Sinai near Bathurst &Wilson in Toronto. The event is free. We do a special (not very often heard) take on klezmer; please see below for all the schmeetails.
A Temple Sinai Program – “Our Musical Legacy” Concert-Lecture “Not Your Usual Klezmer” Jonno Lightstone (clarinet, flute) Brian Katz (guitar, keyboard)
Acclaimed klezmer clarinetist/flutist Jonno Lightstone and famed jazz and Jewish music artist Brian Katz combine their talents to explore rarely performed klezmer repertoire. Bringing together a multitude of musical styles and experiences, Jonno and Brian create a variety of diverse moods by weaving the melodies of klezmer music with the sounds and textures of chamber music, modal jazz, Indian raga, and down-home blues. The inviting texture of the classical guitar and flute will especially intrigue listeners who have yet to hear the quieter side of klezmer.
Contact: Temple Office
Email: programs@templesinai.net
Phone: 416-487-4161
North East corner of St. Phillips Road and Dixon Road
Free (donations)
Email: stphilips@stphilips.net
Map: http://www.stphilips.net/
Performing selections from his new CD “Leaves Will Speak”
Res. (limited seating) 416-229-0189
“If you want music that speaks – here it is”
Jazz Podium Magazine, Germany
Brian Katz with Klezmer clarinettist, Jonno Lightstone.
At the Northern District Public Library.
Orchardviewers. Jonno Lightstone, flute/clarinet; Brian Katz, guitar.
Room 224, 40 Orchard View Blvd. 416-393-7610. FREE
