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Date/Time
Date(s) - Wednesday, April 19, 2017
7:00 pm10:00 pm
Location
Howard Philips Hall
Collison Ave
Masset
FIVER is the moniker for Toronto-born musician, Simone Schmidt. An awesome and haunting voice and bleak, poetic firepower. In collaboration with North Coast artist, Saltwater Hank.
Press quote from FIVER’s forthcoming album “Audible Songs From Rockwood”: “Every song on this record feels like Fiver’s Simone Schmidt is rearranging my bones, and I’m undone over and over. Inspired by Schmidt’s two years of research into the real Rockwood Asylum for the Criminally Insane (1854-1881) — reading the asylum’s patient files, superintendents’ diaries and architectural diagrams — every creak and crack of Audible Songs From Rockwood feels authentic, like Schmidt stumbled back in time and unearthed vintage, forgotten recordings. But it never once feels like a gimmick; Schmidt has too much respect for the real women whose lives were mined for these 11 tracks, and has put too much work into nailing the old-time folk sound with a faithfulness that borders on brilliance. This short doc below about the making of the album is a testament to Schmidt’s intentions and why Rockwood is so powerful and unsettling.”
-Andrea Warner, for CBC
http://www.cbcmusic.ca/posts/18246/spring-2017-shania-nelly-albums-you-need-to-hear
Contact Info
Jessica Rampling
www.facebook.com/hgartscouncil/