Frank Martel et l’Ouest céleste (Michel F Côté, Éloi Deit, Bernard Falaise, Frank Martel) and Peter Paul will be at Divan orange in Montréal on May 15, 2007. Listen to some online audio clips of Yé-Yi-You-Ya by Frank Martel.

After the meeting with Antoine Berthiaume, Clinton Ryder, and Pierre Tanguay last Monday, Le cheval blanc (brewpub in Montréal) invites you to 2 new concerts: first, a concert on May 7, 2007 featuring Jean-Marc Hébert Quartet (Jean-Marc Hébert, Marie-Soleil Bélanger, Christophe Papadimitriou, Isaiah Ceccarelli); and on May 14 featuring Philippe Lauzier playing saxophones and bass clarinett, Miles Perkin, doublebass, and Thom Gossage, drums.

On May 13, 2007 two quartets will heat up the Divan orange: first, the Quatuor de vents (with Gordon M Allen, Jean Derome, Philippe Lauzier, and Frank Lozano); second, the quarteski does prokofiev ensemble (with Gordon M Allen, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Philippe Lauzier, and Pierre-Yves Martel). Listen to them on Today is a Special Day or The Feeling of Jazz.

Joane Hétu will present her Filature project in which she mixes rock, minimalist music, improvisations with visual and scenic components. This lively artist will be on stage with the Ensemble SuperMusique (Mélanie Auclair, Guido Del Fabbro, Jean Derome, Claire Gignac, Normand Guilbeault, Diane Labrosse, Danielle Palardy Roger, Pierre Tanguay, Némo Venba), and visual artist Pierre Hébert. This concert will be presented on May 21, 2007 at cinéma Laurier in Victoriaville as part of the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville (23 concerts of “musique actuelle” — detailed schedule on their website). Until then, you may want to go by a virtual roundabout way and listen to some online audio clips of her album Nouvelle musique d’hiver.

The next Mercredimusics will present Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms (Pierre Cartier, Jean Derome, Guillaume Dostaler, Pierre Tanguay, Tom Walsh) on May 2, 2007 at Casa Obscura in Montréal. Listen to them on Torticolis, Navré, Carnets de voyage.