Name: Norm Adams and Joe Sorbara, plus Allotropes
Start: 2025-06-05T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-06-05T22:00:00-07:00
Location: The Orange Light

Norm Adams and Joe Sorbara, plus Allotropes

The Orange Light

The tabletop Cello and Percussion duo of Norm Adams & Joe Sorbara (Halifax/Toronto) perform at the Orange Light, with guests Allotropes

Cellist Norm Adams and percussionist Joe Sorbara are both performers and organisers working in Canadian creative experimental music. Having known one another for decades, they finally came together to make some music in September 2022. Since, Norm and Joe have developed a unique “tabletop” cello and percussion duo that brings their far-reaching creative minds into focus on a particular and peculiar sound-world of rhythm, pitch, texture, sonority, and heart combined with a projected birds-eye-view of their performance that offers audiences a compelling perspective of dancing hands at work in the music. Norman Adams is a cellist who has evolved beyond his training and long career in classical music to reinvent his voice as an interpreter, improviser, sound artist and transdisciplinary performer. He is also an educator, mentor, podcaster, volunteer and cycling coach. Norm is founding Artistic Director of suddenlyLISTEN Music, an organization that has produced and presented concerts, residencies, outreach and tours for over 20 years. Norm is a former Principal Cellist of Symphony Nova Scotia (1991 - 2018), was guest Principal Cellist of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and has performed chamber, new and improvised music throughout Canada, the US, Europe and the UK.<a href="https://normadams.bandcamp.com" title="https://normadams.bandcamp.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Norm Adams bandcamp</a> Canadian drummer and percussionist Joe Sorbara has spent decades developing a reputation as a dedicated and imaginative performer, composer, improviser, collaborator, organiser, listener, writer, and educator. A consummate sonic adventurer, Sorbara’s music draws on a vast array of influences, most notably the African American Creative Music tradition.<a href="https://ovalwindowrecords.bandcamp.com" title="https://ovalwindowrecords.bandcamp.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Oval Window Records bandcamp</a> Allotropes is the Victoria, BC freebop trio of saxophonist and clarinetist Shane Krause, bassist Trav Short and drummer Miles Fuller. They focus on performing Krause's original compositions with a smattering of free music classics.

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