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Tag Archives: Elevation Room

Jom Comyn’s Sock-Feet Soporifics

April 10, 2013by Becky Smith-Mandin 1 Comment

If Jom Comyn’s music was a time and place, it’d be 3 AM in your linoleum walk-up apartment. When the booze is wearing off. When everyone’s too tired to speak […]

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Break it to Me Gently, Braden Gates

March 20, 2013by Becky Smith-Mandin Leave a comment

Braden Gates is a brave man. At a moment when folk music means layers of moody reverb and legions of backing banjoists, Gates isn’t afraid to indulge in stripped down […]

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Craig Martell, doing things.

Interview with Craig Martell of Wunderbar

March 15, 2013by keishaarmand 2 Comments

I never want to live anywhere else. You make a difference here. I had the opportunity to chat with Craig Martell, the universally-beloved owner of Edmonton’s live music venue, The New […]

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Elevation Room: The Farewell Show

March 1, 2013by Becky Smith-Mandin 3 Comments

Rooms mean nothing. People mean everything. I have the best friends in the world. -The Joe – Becky Smith-Mandin

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Closing Time: Edmonton Musicians On Saying Goodbye to the Elevation Room

February 25, 2013by Becky Smith-Mandin 4 Comments

“There’s a sonic point on the stairway, where it’s just hushhh. All of a sudden it’s quiet. It’s quiet and now you’re in this place.” Joe Gurba’s voice grows calm […]

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Peaceful Times with Bry Webb in The Elevation Room.

June 22, 2012by DFalk 1 Comment

Bry Webb, June 14th at the Transcend Coffee Bar/Elevation Room Often we go to shows not only to show our appreciation and support for the artists, but also to take […]

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Breaking The Barriers w/ Nicola Ratti, Mark Templeton, and Taiwan

May 22, 2012by erictbehr 4 Comments

What is music? How is it defined? For some, music is something with a catchy tune or beat. Perhaps music is something that you can sing along to, or dance […]

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Transcend Coffee’s Elevation Room: What Edmonton Music Didn’t Know It Needed

April 16, 2012by IV | VI 2 Comments

What is to be said about taste, when the forces behind Edmonton’s Transcend café open their basement every Friday and Saturday to host an intimate array of folk, pop, electronic, singer-songwriter elements (and […]

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Michael B. MacDonald, popular music instructor at the University of Alberta, founded Sound + Noise in 2009 as a pedagogical extension of his popular music courses. Sound + Noise is a public venue for the development of socially engaged critical thinking on the arts. The young writers who make up Sound + Noise focus on the local production of the arts while not forgetting that, of course, these arts are understood within the larger framework of the global culture industries. We believe that developing our critical thinking and writing skills requires participation in the critical discourses of art. With Sound + Noise we hope to encourage lively and considered debate about the many aspects of music and art in our community and in our lives.
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