Queer Songbook Orchestra Presented By The Regina Folk Festival
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- October 3, 2018 - Doors at: 7:30pm / Showtime: 8:00pm
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Don't miss this one-of-a-kind Regina Folk Festival Concert Series presentation -- Toronto's Queer Songbook Orchestra
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018
Doors at 7:30 Music at 8
Tickets are $22 in advance and $27 at the door
Tickets will be on sale soon.
The Artesian is wheelchair accessible, all-ages, and a proud supporter of safe spaces initiatives with a zero-tolerance policy towards hate, harassment, and/or discrimination. We reserve the right to remove any patron creating an unsafe environment. The accessible entrance is available via a lift, Please ask staff for help if necessary.
About The Queer Songbook Orchestra:
The Queer Songbook Orchestra is a Toronto based 12-piece chamber pop ensemble, dedicated to exploring and uplifting queer narrative in pop music. With the queer lens intact they are looking through the last century of popular music and bringing forward obscured LGBTQ2S historical narratives, as well as the personal stories of members of the community and the songs connected to them.
[Queer Songbook Orchestra presented by the Regina Folk Festival - Image 1] Holding the belief that story and song are powerful communicators and carry within them the potential to increase understanding, promote dialogue and foster deeper community, they have been bringing intimacy and vulnerability to stages across Canada since 2014. By working with a base of familiar songs, drawn from pop music of the last century and reinterpreted by a team of highly skilled arrangers, and offered alongside their accompanying narratives, the listener is allowed a new entry point into familiar works. This element of the project explores the elusive nature of song and the pockets of memory where they tuck away, providing comfort, resilience and a bond amongst community.
[Queer Songbook Orchestra presented by the Regina Folk Festival - Image 2] The QSO got their start in 2014 at the now defunct Videofag, in Toronto's Kensington Market, and have gone on to play many of the top performing arts festivals throughout Canada, including Luminato (Toronto), High Performance Rodeo (Calgary), PuSh (Vancouver), and Canada Scene (National Arts Centre). They have been part of Buddies in Bad Times 'Queer Pride' programming for the past four years, have been in residence at the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, and been featured on the CBC program 'Q'.
The Queer Songbook Orchestra are partnered with the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, the largest independent LGBTQ archives in the world, an agreement which provides a permanent home for all QSO recordings, stories and research, and allows the ensemble to receive charitable donations on the Archive's behalf.
"Sensational, a superb pop ensemble" ~ NOW Magazine
