Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

Event Description

(h)EAR concert and workshop series presents:
New Hermitage
(Halifax)
With local guests:
Kyoko Ogoda + Paul Clifford
Matt Rogalsky
Saturday Sept. 16th
7:30pm
The Spire
82 Sydenham street
$20 general admission
$10 students/arts workers/seniors
Also join us for:
Workshop on Creative Music
With Andrew MacKelvie and Doug Cameron
7pm to 9pm
Friday Sept. 15th
The Spire
82 Sydenham street
$10 / PWYC

About New Hermitage:
New Hermitage imagines a future in which pollution has decimated the population of the Earth and dangerously high levels of toxicity have rendered the cities of the world uninhabitable. The surviving humans are forced to live in nomadic clans that wander the sparse wilderness, struggling to claim what little natural resources remain. However, a few solitary people have returned to the cities. With patience and tenderness, these new hermits balance technology with ancient wisdom to work with nature and restore the planet. The music of New Hermitage imagines the soundtrack to their survival, incorporating what these lone individuals might hear among the crumbling cities they call home.

New Hermitage is Andrew MacKelvie, woodwinds; India Gailey, cello; Ross Burns, guitar; and Ellen Gibling, harp. All highly accomplished musicians in their own right, the quartet birthed in 2017 in Halifax, Nova Scotia out of their shared connection to Jerry Granelli and the Creative Music Workshop. Since then, New Hermitage has shared bills with artists such as revelatory composer/improviser Angel Bat Dawid, jaw harp innovator chik white, pi'pa virtuoso Liu Fang, and prolific noise explorer i d m theft able. Among their six live recordings are two performances with renowned bass clarinettist Jeff Reilly, one of which won Music Nova Scotia’s “Classical Recording of the Year'' award. New Hermitage’s first studio album, Unearth, was released in 2020 to much critical acclaim.