Description:
In partnership with Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, Music on Main, New Orchestra Workshop (NOW) Society, and Suoni per il Popolo, Western Front hosted saxophonist Ida Toninato and cellist Émilie Girard-Charest for a ten-day residency as part of the series Trading Places: Un Échange. Montréal-based musicians performed in the Grand Luxe Hall with the NOW Society ensemble, participated in the Trading Places Marathon alongside twenty Vancouver-based improvisers, and performed at Music on Main as part of their Modulus Festival.
Presented with support from SOCAN Foundation and the Government of Canada.
Western Front is a non-profit artist-run centre in Vancouver.
We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.