Four drummers and percussionists – Howie Southwood, Jesse Stewart, Randall Coryell, and Ted Warren – are getting together to perform and teach some drum patterns.
For this Village Idiots Production, organizers are encouraging audience members to participate.
Stewart is a percussionist, improviser, composer, visual artist, instrument builder, researcher, teacher and writer. As a musician, he works primarily in jazz, new music, and free improvisation. His research interests include improvisation, hip hop, turntablism and jazz. He teaches at the University of Guelph. Warren is an active member of Canada’s jazz scene and has been recognized with Jazz Report’s Drummer of the Year award. He teaches at Humber and Mohawk College. He was the drummer for the Boss Brass and can be heard on six of their recent CDs. He formed Ted’s Warren Commission in 1993 as an outlet for his own compositions.
Since the age of 16, Randall Coryell has played drums and percussion on stage, radio, LP, CD, video, TV, in theaters, bars, bar miztvahs, booze cans, and bordellos with the likes of Bo Diddley, Mel Brown, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, White Noise, Prince Charles and the City Beat, Alannah Myles, The Marigolds, Tom Cochrane and Red Rider, Roy Buchanan, Paul Butterfield, Quartette, Glass Tiger, Gwen Swick, Prairie Oyster, Vytek-Coryell-Bird …
Southwood has been playing professionally for over 30 years. In the 1990s he toured internationally with Celtic rock band Rawlins Cross. In August he will reunite with the band in St. John’s to record a new CD. He’s a member of The Dave Thompson Trio: people can Southwood’s drums emanating from 13 Mill Street every Thursday night through the summer. The event runs on July 30, 8pm on the grounds of the Elora General Store.
