Sat April 30 | 8:00 pm
$24 | $12 Student/Senior | eyego
Toca Loca
Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts
36 King Street West
This cross-Canadian trio (from Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax) features performers of the highest calibre who play everything from the most complex to the most funky. Their appearance at the Open Ears Festival will celebrate the release of their new CD Shed in a program featuring the works of a Javier Alvarez, Matthew Hindson, Nicole Lizée, Sean Griffin and Andrew Staniland as well as a performance of the Halo Ballet, in which characters from the well-known video game are seen controlled by gamers in beautiful dance-like movements created by Toronto choreographer Julia Aplin.
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Since their inception in 2001, Toca Loca has been furiously branding the cattle of the new music world, and has long been held up as the best argument against intelligent design. Sworn enemies of actuaries and slow-growth fund managers the world over, percussionist Aiyun Huang and pianists Simon Docking and Gregory Oh have introduced North American audiences to new works of Chris Paul Harman, Andrew Staniland, Hywel Davies, Inouk Demers, Heinz Holliger, Sofia Gubaidulina, Philippe Leroux, Toshio Hosokawa, Georges Aperghis and Valerio Sannicandro.
During a SoundaXis festival, they were offered twenty dollars by a merchant's personal assistant to stop playing on the trendy corner of Queen and John in Toronto. They accepted.
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