After a huge success at the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival last summer, the Ratchet Orchestra will be in concert at the Jewish General Hospital in Montréal on December 1, 2008. The orchestra, who just released its first recording, features double bassist Nicolas Caloia as well as thirty of Montréal’s finest improvisers. Not to be missed!

On June 24, 2008 at festival Suoni Per Il Popolo: the Ratchet Orchestra with Jean Derome, Nicolas Caloia, Gordon Krieger, Sam Shalabi, Damian Nisenson, Chris Burns, Bryan Highbloom, John Heward, Philippe Lauzier, Robert Kraft, Pierre Labbé, Gordon M Allen, Brian Lipson, Eric Lewis, Thea Pratt, Jacques Gravel, Noah Countability, Joshua Zubot, Kate Lawrence, Jean René, Gen Heistek, Anni Lawrence, Norsola Johnson, Alexandre Grogg, Ken Doolittle, Bruce Cawdron, Michel Bonneau.