Concert broadcast live throughout North America exclusively for SIRIUS listeners On Iceberg 95 / channel 95
Boston, MA -- Berklee College of Music today announced that SIRIUS Canada will present "Canada Comes to Berklee", a unique all-Canadian concert event on December 12 featuring The New Pornographers, k- os, and Bill King's Saturday Nite Fish Fry. As part of the 2007-2008 Sovereign Bank Music Series, Canada Comes to Berklee will highlight these Canadian musical exports and call attention to the great influence Canadian music has had – and continues to have – on American popular music. The event will give concertgoers a chance to experience some of the best indie pop, hip-hop, and blues artists to emerge from Canada in recent years. In addition, the Saturday Nite Fish Fry band will serve as the backing band for a number of Canadian Berklee students, who will open the show with a tribute to Canadian musicians.
SIRIUS Canada's Iceberg 95 host Steve Anthony will host the concert, which will also be broadcast live throughout North America on SIRIUS' Iceberg 95 channel. Canada Comes To Berklee takes place on Wednesday, December 12, 8:15 p.m., at the Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA. Tickets, $30 general and $22.50 seniors, can be purchased at the BPC box office or through Ticketmaster 617 931-2000, ticketmaster.com. Call 617-747-2261 or visit berkleebpc.com for more information. The BPC is wheelchair accessible. Berklee is pleased to welcome Borders as the supporting sponsor of the Sovereign Music Series at Berklee.
About the Artists:
The New Pornographers: The New Pornographers are AC Newman and a group of ridiculously talented people, uniquely equipped to realize his musical ambitions. The group formed in 1997, immediately recorded the classic "Letter From An Occupant," and it was on. Their four full-lengths (as well as Newman's 2004 solo debut) have received wild critical and public acclaim, and they continue to enjoy bigger (and taller and smarter) audiences. The band's latest album, Challengers, continues along the lines of 2005's Twin Cinema, whose "relative melancholy makes it the band's best album yet" [Blender]. Dialing back the frantic pace, these are songs with dynamics and epic sweep. While it's still a "top-down summer power-pop classic" (or any variation thereof that the band's enjoyed over the last several years), this is something more personal, more lasting.
k-os: With his third album, ATLANTIS-Hymns for Disco, the Trinidad- born, Toronto-raised musician k-os has joined the ranks of such out- of-box visionaries as the Beastie Boys, Beck, Gnarls Barkley, Kanye West, and OutKast. ATLANTIS is a sonic tour-de-force, encapsulating the best of old-school hip-hop, indie-rock, and soul, while presenting an artist with a unique and powerful voice all his own. The sonic dexterity shown on k-os' latest album isn't anything new. In just a few short years, the artist (whose name stands for "Knowledge of Self") has scored numerous accolades, including Canada's prestigious Juno, a Source hip-hop award, and a GRAMMY nomination for his collaboration with the Chemical Brothers. In Canada, he's already a multi-platinum artist. Throughout Europe, he's considered a groundbreaking MC, and in the U.S., he's quickly becoming a commercial and critical success.
Bill King's Saturday Nite Fish Fry: Bill King is a multi-talented blues pianist, composer, and publisher whose recording and production credits include Liberty Silver; Bill King and the Jazz Report All- Stars; From The Heart, a tribute to Oscar Peterson; and most recently, Bill King's Saturday Nite Fish Fry's Jump Shout Rock da
House and Dirt Road Blues; The Rockit 88 Band's Too Much Fun; and the King.Alleyne.Roth Trio's It Might As Well Be Spring. These projects highlight King's versatility as both a keyboardist and composer. Berklee student performers: Vocalists Alison Slaight, Rebecca Muir, Tara Kieth, and Ryan Shergold; and fiddler Ivonne Hernandez, will be directed by Rob Rose, associate vice president for special programs; and Ken Zambello, professor of ensembles. SIRIUS Canada is committed to Canadian talent development and plays a leading role in helping English and French Canadian musicians grow their audiences in Canada and the U.S. through satellite radio technology.
About SIRIUS Canada SIRIUS is Canada's number one choice for satellite radio with 110 full-time channels broadcast from studios in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and New York. SIRIUS offers 100% commercial-free music plus premium sports, news, talk and entertainment programming from North America's most recognizable and respected personalities and brands. SIRIUS offers listeners unparalleled coast-to-coast signal coverage and digital quality sound broadcast from three high-orbit satellites. The 2007-2008 Sovereign Bank Music Series at Berklee features a wide variety of music ranging from rock, jazz, and Latin, to r&b, hip-hop, and Broadway and film tunes. George Duke, the SFJAZZ Collective, and
Berklee's outstanding students, faculty, and alumni will perform upcoming concerts in this unique and astonishing season. Berklee College of Music was founded on the revolutionary principle that the best way to prepare students for careers in music was through the study and practice of contemporary music. For over 60 years, the college has evolved constantly to reflect the state of the art of music and the music business. With over a dozen performance and nonperformance majors, a diverse and talented student body representing over 70 countries, and a music industry "who's who" of alumni, Berklee is the world's premier learning lab for the music of today — and tomorrow.
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Margot Edwards, Publicist
Berklee College of Music
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