A member of King Crimson for the fifth, sixth and seventh albums of Robert Fripp’s band, Cross, now 75 years old, will be at Salle Raoul-Jobin on October 25 with his electric violin and his band.
Cross’ band, which includes singer and guitarist John Mitchell, bassist Mick Paul, keyboardist Sheila Maloney and drummer Jack Summerfield, will be there to perform the legendary album in full. Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year. In the opening act, the progressive rock group Miriodor from Quebec will be responsible for warming up the crowd with one of its rare performances in its native land.
On October 4 and 5, British guitarist John Etheridge and his legendary group Soft Machine will be at Salle D’Youville to present two shows mixing progressive rock and jazz fusion.
Director of programming at the Palais Montcalm, Nicolas Houle will once again host the Paroles et Musique series with Soft Machine and Sue Foley. (Caroline Grégoire/The Sun)
“They were supposed to do it last year, but they had visa problems. In addition, each of the two shows will be 50% different and the material will touch on all the eras of the group which was founded in 1966,” assured Nicolas Houle, programming director of the Palais Montcalm, when officially unveiling the fall program. from the house of music on Tuesday.
As for Ariane Moffatt, it is also an exclusive that she will offer on November 15 at the Salle Raoul-Jobin in an intimate and entirely acoustic format with piano and string quartet while she will reinterpret the most popular pieces from her repertoire for his many fans in the capital.
Busy programming
Pianist Alain Lefèvre (October 5), jazz singer Holly Cole (October 18), classical organist Francis Gagnon and his son Nicolas, saxophonist (October 20), the Dan Thouin Trio (November 30) with pieces from the album A Charlie Brown Christmas and jazz singer Émilie-Claire Barlow (December 6) complete the program at Salle Raoul-Jobin.
The Brazilian Bia Ferreira (September 19), the American folk singer Ray Bonneville (October 9), the blues singer Angélique Francis (October 10), the jazz group First Circle, which will pay tribute to the work of the Pat Metheny Group on October 17 , the rising star of indie folk Vera Sola, daughter of actor Dan Aykroyd (October 24), the Montreal folk group Mentana (October 25), the Durham County Poets (November 9), the guitarist Sue Foley, who will celebrate the female blues guitarists on November 27 and 28, and Thomas Hellman and Olaf Gundel (November 30) complete that of the Salle D’Youville.
Soft Machine and Sue Davis will also get the series treatment Words and Music the afternoon of their second show when the public will be able to discuss with them during a question and answer exercise of which Nicolas Houle will, as always, be the host.
At Madame Belley’s
The musical 5 à 7 will also be back from July 17 to August 25 on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at Chez Madame Belley, where three shows will also be offered this fall, namely those of the neoclassical pianist and keyboardist Mélissa Fortin, well known as a member of the group Bon Enfant, on October 3, the singer-songwriter Rachel Leblanc with her project Vanille on October 26 and the group TransQueb which touches on jazz fusion and progressive and psychedelic rock on November 16.
After a final season which is among the best in the history of the Palais Montcalm according to Nicolas Houle, the next one also looks very promising with a few shows, including that of The Pineapple Thief, which are already almost sold out several months before their presentation.
