Isaiah Ceccarelli, Joane Hétu and Lori Freedman will be at Le Cagibi on Tuesday February 10, 2009 as part of the Mardi spaghetti weekly series for creative music.

Isaiah Ceccarelli’s Lieux-dits, featuring Jean Derome, Francisco Lozano, Steve Raegele and Clinton Ryder, will be in concert at L’envers in Montréal on February 7, 2009. If you haven’t yet heard the album, have a listen!

On February 7, 2009, Poètes publics will be in concert at La Sala Rossa in Montréal for the Festival Voix d’Amériques. A shape-shifting ensemble that unites dozens of poets, performers and musicians with a desire to work and explore together in an improvisational context, Poètes publics will feature for this occasion musicians Bernard Falaise, Diane Labrosse, Martin Tétreault, Michel F Côté and Guido del Fabbro, rapper-improviser Khyro and poet-performers Catherine Lalonde, Renée Gagnon, Danny Plourde, Geneviève Blais and D. Kimm. Also, on February 13, Frank Martel and Nathalie Derome will be featured at the Cabaret DADA Surréaliste, the festival’s closing night concert.

The Trepanated Quintet, double bassist Nicolas Caloia’s newest group featuring Jean Derome, Guillaume Dostaler, Kenny Doolittle and Robert Kraft, will be in concert at L’envers in Montréal on February 5, 2009.

Ellwood Epps, Nicolas Caloia and Adam Kinner will be in concert as part of the Improvising Montréal series at Casa del Popolo, in Montréal, on Sunday February 1, 2009.

Thierry Amar, Sam Shalabi and Joshua Zubot, as well as Esther Bourdages will be at Le Cagibi on Tuesday February 3, 2009 as part of the Mardi spaghetti weekly series for creative music.