113007 Harry Manx and Kevin Breit, Peterborough, ON
Peterborough is a pretty cool little town with a campus and a record store and more than it’s fair share of hip cafes…
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090701 Bill Frisell & Kevin Breit/Marilyn Crispell & Gerry Hemingway/Sun Ra Arkestra, Guelph, ON
The relatively small but wonderfully niche Guelph Jazz Festival had paired my two favourite guitar players to play together for the first (and only?) time…
061009 Neil Young Tribute, Toronto, ON
If there’s a musical reason to be a proud Canadian, his name is Neil Young…
042012 Sisters Euclid, Oakville, ON
You’d think that a guy who was in Toronto specifically to climb the steps of the CN Tower for charity would want to take it easy the night before the climb, maybe eat a healthy meal and get a good night’s sleep ahead of his 7am alarm clock setting. And I probably would have done exactly that had my favourite guitar player not been playing just a reasonable drive down the highway…
022609 Kevin Breit/CR Avery, Wakefield, QC
On February 26th, 2009 I went to The Black Sheep in Wakefield, Quebec to see the great Kevin Breit. Not only was my favourite guitar player playing, he was sharing the bill with someone I had never heard of before, a guy named C. R. Avery…
012806 John Geggie, Cuong Vu, and Kevin Breit, Ottawa, ON
When I was in my first year of university one of my profs arranged a jazz trio to play for one of our classes. I only remember one member of the trio – John Geggie – but I remember his performance that afternoon in my mind’s eye as vividly as if it were yesterday…
101005 Sir Paul McCartney/Sisters Euclid, Toronto, ON
On October 10th, 2005 I drove to Toronto with some friends to see Sir Paul McCartney for the first time…
072716 Upper York Mandolin Quartet, Ottawa, ON
I was thrilled and excited for the chance to hear Kevin lead his Mandolin Quartet on July 27th, 2016 at a new Ottawa venue on King Edward Street called La Nouvelle Scène…
Folkalarm, 5
A review I wrote long ago of 5, the fifth album from Kevin Breit’s acoustic ensemble Folk Alarm.
(reprinted courtesy of jambands.ca, not like I asked them or anything)
020919 Kevin Breit, Ottawa, ON
After a stellar show the night before (following a less-than-stellar show the night before that) on February 9th, 2019 I committed to see Kevin Breit’s third and final show at the Ottawa Jazz Festival’s brief winter fest. The last-minute decision to attend the show was augmented by my promise to Kevin the night before that I would…
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