On March 3, 2009, Mardi Spaghetti will celebrate it’s one year anniversary! And what a first year it has been: 48 concerts featuring more than 100 artists from Montréal, Canada and abroad!

Mardi Spaghetti is a weekly series for creative music in Montréal. Leaning heavily on improvisation, each Tuesday at Le Cagibi features musicians and artists from the worlds of new music, jazz, noise, rock, sound art, dance, musique actuelle, early music, and more. Curated by Ellwood Epps, Philippe Lauzier, Pierre-Yves Martel and Joshua Zubot.

Following the release of their seventh album, Michel Gonneville: Hozhro, the Bozzini Quartet will perform in Toronto and Montréal before crossing the Atlantic for a series of concerts in Europe. Listen to excerpts of this latest album and be up-to-date on their ever growing discography!

• March 1, 2009: Shift — A Festival of Dutch and Canadian Music, Toronto (Canada)
• March 4: Université Concordia, Montréal (Canada)
• March 15: Le Corum, Montpellier (France)
• March 18: Musée des moulages, Lyon (France)
• March 19: Instants chavirés, Montreuil (France)
• March 22: Maison de Radio France, Paris, (France)
• March 25 + 26: University of Technology Hall, Brno (Czech Republic)
• March 28: MaerzMusik Festival, Berlin (Germany)

Nozen, Damián Nisenson’s newest quartet featuring Bernard Falaise, Jean Félix Mailloux and Pierre Tanguay, will be in concert at Cheval blanc in Montréal on March 3, 2009.

The next Mercredimusics will feature Jean Derome, Lori Freedman, Bernard Falaise, André Duchesne as well as Coat Cooke (Vancouver) et Paul Cram (Halifax) on December 3, 2008 at Casa Obscura in Montréal.

The Murray Street Band, led by drummer John Heward, includes a number of Montréal’s most exciting improvisers. With musicians with backgrounds in free improv, new music, noise, punk, (post)-rock, world beat and jazz, the Murray Street Band’s sonic celebrations are bound to please and last long into the night! The concert takes place on February 26, 2009, at Casa del Popolo in Montréal.

Vancouver saxophonist Coat Cooke, as well as Montréal musicians Ellwood Epps, Isaiah Ceccarelli and Diane Labrosse, will be in concert on February 28, 2009, at L’envers in Montréal.