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Calgary based composer and instrumentalist Rebecca Bruton will be performing for the first time in Kelowna on May 28th at Kelowna Unitarians. Also appearing is Kelowna's own songstress Rachel Mercer, recently returned from New Zealand. This concert is the forty-first installment of the Skin And Bones Music Series - an Okanagan Arts Award nominated concert series dedicated to the presentation of experimental music in the Okanagan.Rebecca Bruton is an experimental composer, improviser, vocalist, violinist, and guitarist hailing from Calgary, Alberta. She creates work that moves in the narrow space between sorrow and celebration, revealing experiences of sensory and psychological alteredness. Rebecca works across several mediums, including chamber music composition, song making and experimental poetry, film scores, and free improvisation. For this concert Rebecca will perform a solo guitar and voice version of acclaimed Toronto composer Martin Arnold’s chamber work Tam Lin, a 40 minute beautifully introspective reinvention of the legendary Scottish ballad of the same name.
www.rebeccabruton.com
Rachel Mercer is a multifaceted visual, performative, and musical artist, wielding her ukulele with mastery as both a vocalist and songwriter. She has been making music for over a decade, crafting innovative and original compositions with vocal looping, and performing in local Goth country/punk dirge band The Civil Dead. Based in Kelowna, Rachel recently performed at the 2024 New Zealand Fringe Festival in Wellington, where her seamless blend of original music and stand-up comedy made for a one-woman tour de force.
www.rachelmercermusic.bandcamp.com
Admission at the door is $15 or $10 for Alternator members and students.
Advance tickets can be purchased online at Event Brite.
This concert is made possible through the partnership between the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art and the Inner Fish Theatre Society, producers of Kelowna’s annual Living Things International Arts Festival, and frequent collaborators with both the Alternator and Skin And Bones.
The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art is an artist-run centre located in Kelowna, BC at the Rotary Centre for the Arts, 421 Cawston Avenue. The Alternator is a registered non-profit charitable organization dedicated to the development of the creative community. Since 1989 the Alternator has shown the work of emerging Canadian artists and focused on innovative and non-traditional mediums engaged in social and cultural issues.
www.alternatorcentre.com
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Kelowna Unitarians, 1310 Bertram Street,Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada