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Canada’s arts and culture sector contributed $65 billion in GDP, new report finds The study from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce found the industry is growing faster than oil and gas, manufacturing and agriculture.

file under: nation building projects
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more arts, less oil. better trains to make touring less oil dependant please too while we're at it.

culture matters, beauty matters

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Rabble Without a Cause, October 29: Funding Drive show numero 1: local and Toronto-based groups Linsey Wellman, Matt Robert McLennan Quintet, the Dun-Dun Band, Josh Cole and Rich Brown

thanks to Ian & 'Rabble without a cause' on @ckcufm.bsky.social for hi-lighting some of whats going on here in Toronto in the experimental scene with dun-dun band and quartet +strings!

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"All in all, Pita Parka, Pt. II is the most musically dense and ambitious four-song record you’ll hear all year, an epic that leaves you wanting more." - Malcolm Fraser, Maisonneuve

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Dun-Dun Band – Pita Parka, Pt. II: Nim Egduf | The Quietus Balearic bliss and free jazz skronk collide on the second album from Craig Dunsmuir's Toronto-based big band

thanks @thequietus.com for the kind words

"Pita Parka, Pt. II: Nim Egduf is an album that enchants and transports. Each of its blissed-out segments appears like a portal to some cosy, safe place. Meanwhile, reality slips away."

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Josh Cole Trio + Strings Free Jazz Collective, reviews of avant garde and free jazz music and media

thanks to #freejazzblog for the mention!

www.freejazzblog.org/2025/09/josh...

an 8.9

#toronto #experimentalmusic #prog #freejazz #minimalism

YouTube video by Kreative Kontrol Dun-Dun Band on Toronto's absolute best pizza

talking pizza at cassiar HQ with the dun-dun buds
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1017!

Dun-Dun Band

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YouTube video by Cassiar Records Dun-Dun Band: Pita Parka ptii release show at Collective Arts #livemusic #toronto #freejazz

THIS SATURDAY
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#toronto #livemusic #freejazz #experimentalmusic

a new Dun-Dun Band album, a new Guelph Jazz Festival, and a visit from an old friend Talking to Joe Sorbara about the new Guelph Jazz Festival, celebrating the Dun-Dun Band’s new release Pita Parka Pt. II, and welcoming viola player James Annett for a visit to Toronto.

~~𝙉𝙀𝙒 𝙎𝙐𝘽𝙎𝙏𝘼𝘾𝙆~~
talking to Joe Sorbara about the new Guelph Jazz Festival, highlighting a visit to Toronto by James Annett, and the new dun-dun band record.
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#toronto #guelphjazzfestival #improvisedmusic #experimentalmusic

last show of the 2025 Cassiar residency at the Tranzac

Josh Cole trio + strings
w/ John Oswald (sax), Aline Homzy (violin), James Annett (viola), Nick Storring (cello), Blake Howard (percussion), and Josh Cole (double bass)

Jazz Today – Episode August 21, 2025 – CJSW Radio

selections from all three 2025 releases today on CSJW thanks to Tim at Jazz Today at @cjsw.bsky.social

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dun-dun band album release show Sept 27th!
#toronto #livemusic #experimentalmusic #jazz #freejazz

[Video Premiere]: Dun-Dun Band - "Drizzly" - SonOfMarketing Dun-Dun Band is a ten-member ensemble based in Toronto led by guitarist Craig Dunsmuir, inspired by North African gnawa music

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New Release: Josh Cole quartet +strings plus 4(ish) questions w/ John Oswald John Oswald on his complicated relationship with the saxophone, playing with people, and being 'out of control'.

𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬
𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮
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#johnoswald #improvisedmusic #chambermusic #toronto #canadianart

quartet +strings, by Josh Cole 3 track album

happy release day to this
full album now available for streaming/purchase

#canadianart #experimentalmusic #toronto #improvisedmusic

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Music Nova Scotia Announces 2025 Music & Industry Award Nominees, Voting Now Open — Nova Scotia Music Week (July 15, 2025 – Halifax/Kjipuktuk, NS) Music Nova Scotia is pleased to present the 2025 Music Nova Scotia Music & Industry Award nominees! With award submissions covering 23 music and 7 indust...

big congrats to Collateral (Sam Shalabi, Tim Crofts and Norm Adams) for this Music Nova Scotia nomination for classical album of the year.

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~~~this summer at Cassiar~~~

Josh Cole: quartet +strings (July 18)
Dun-Dun Band: pita parka pt.ii (Sept 19)

#toronto #experimentalmusic #freejazz #improvisedmusic

Pita Parka, Pt. II: Nim Egduf, by Dun-Dun Band 4 track album

excited to work with @wearebusybodies.bsky.social on helping to get this one out
Sept 19, Dun-Dun band: Pita Parka pt ii
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#toronto #prog #experimental #freejazz

a busy month for all things cassiar
4tet+strings out july 18
+ another release announcement coming july 9

and then two gigs
Dun-dun band july 15
+ JC 4tet+strings July 22
both at the Tranzac

#toronto #improviedmusic #freejazz #experimentalmusic

quartet +strings, by Josh Cole 3 track album

new release for you from over here at Cassiar Records

Josh Cole quartet +strings
f/ John Oswald, Lina Allemano, Aline Homzy, Nick Storring, Blake Howard

this is #chambermusic, #instantcomposition, #freeimprovisation, this is...

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coming up next month as part of "cassair records presents"
the dun-dun band returns after over a year
July 15th

#toronto #experimentalmusic

4 (ish) questions with: Peggy Lee Touching on Talking Pictures, the Peggy Lee Band, and Open Thread, we talk about listening to the Beatles in elementary school, being a "bass player", and, of course, composing and collaboration.

𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒌: 4(ish) questions with: Peggy Lee

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#improvisation #experimentalmusic #canadianmusic #vancovuer #toronto #chambermusic

improvised music
tuesday may 20th

#toronto #freejazz #improvisedmusic #experimentalmusic

and by west i of course mean EAST! ha

Cem and the team at Something Else! just revealed what might be the most robust/comprehensive experimental jazz festival west of Vancouver for 2025.

a must attend event🔥

somethingelsefestival.com

#ontario #hamilton #freejazz #improvisedmusic #canada

coming up this month: May 20th, Josh Cole quartet +string
@ the Tranzac

w/ Lina Allemano, John Oswald, Aline Homzy, Nick Storring, Blake Howard, Josh Cole

#toronto #experimentalmusic #newmusic

from the mouth of babes Feldman on clarity, young Toronto musicians Jack Johnston and Miles Cakebread-Kraus, and drawing through-lines from Oswald to Driver.

~~ new substack for May ~~

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#toronto #improvisedmusic #jazz #experimentalmusic

Tim Crofts at 50 | suddenlyLISTEN Tim is turning 50, so to mark the occasion we’re throwing him a celebratory concert! Tim has invited some of his favourite collaborators to join him for this special show.

Tim Crofts at 50
a celebration
April 25th, Halifax, NS
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in defence of clarity "we talking about practice?" - Allan Iverson

𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒌: in defence of clarity

++++
:::𝗔𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗟 𝟭𝟱TH:::
John Oswald, Rob Clutton, Nick Fraser, me @ Tranzac

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#toronto #improvisedmusic #experimentalmusic #canada