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Performing at Gigspace, Saturday November 5th 10:00pm
- Vinny Golia – Woodwinds
- David Jackson – Guitar
- Mark Molnar – Cello
- Bennett Bedoukian – Drums
A multi-woodwind performer, Vinny Golia’s recordings have been consistently picked by critics and readers of music journals for their yearly “ten best” lists. In 1990 he was the winner of the Jazz Times TDWR award for Bass Saxophone. In 1998 he ranked 1st in the Cadence Magazine Writers & Readers Poll and has continually placed in the Downbeat Critic’s Poll for Baritone & Soprano Saxophone. In 1999 Vinny won the LA Weekly’s Award for “Best Jazz Musician”. Jazziz Magazine has also named him as one of the 100 people who have influenced the course of Jazz in our Century. In 2006 The Jazz Journalists Association honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. 2013 Vinny won the Downbeat Critic’s Poll in the “New Star” category for Baritone Saxophone.
David Jackson is a Canadian musician and sound artist working primarily with improvised analog and digitally processed guitar and field recordings. He has played in bands such as the Red Pony, North, Northern Sound Electrical System, and the Fucking Machines and solo as Day of Niagara, Spetter and under his own name.
Mark Molnar is the Fat-Controller/Minister of Ambient Replenishment at Black Bough Records in Ottawa, Ontario. He plays strings and electronics with Horesman, Pass By (with Bennett Bedoukian), Kingdom Shore, 1/4 Tonne (Nick Keupfer and Eric Craven), Generator (John Higney and Jamie Gulliksen), Mice (Bennett Bedoukian and Dave Clark), Dusk Scored Dark (Vicky Mettler, Craig Pedersen, Bennett Bedoukian), Land of Kush, and in configurations with Craig Pedersen, James Annett, David Broscoe, and the IMOO Orchestra and String Quartet (Improvising Musicians of Ottawa/Outaouais). He also plays erhu and rebab in Gamelan Semara Winangun. His music has been performed by the Quasar Saxaphone Quartet (Montreal), and the Thin Edge Music Collective (Toronto), and he has written and performed string arrangements for Buried Inside, If Then Do, and Alaskan.
Bennett Bedoukian is the proprietor, printer, and creative heart behind the letter press O Underworld! in Havelock, Ontario. He is a regular contributor and show presenter in Peterborough, as well as one of the co-creators of the Fat Plant Assembly Series of performances with Melinda Richter (founder of Curated, and the eye of the sonic storm that is AWA and Slowly Slowly). He performs under the solo project Cold Eye, and currently plays with the duo Horseman, Pass By (with Mark Molnar), the Craig Pedersen Quartet (Craig Pedersen, Linsey Wellman, Thierry Amar) and Mice (Mark Molnar and Dave Clark) and has previously played with Hello, Babies, and with various arrangements of improvisers, including Karen Ng, Vicky Mettler, Doug Friesen and others.