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Never Was
November 8, 2023 @ 9:30 pm - 11:30 pm
The final Never Was performance of 2023 will feature Brandon Davis on bass, Madeleine Ertel on trumpet, Patrick O'Reilly on guitar, and Joe Sorbara on drums and percussion.
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Never Was is a quartet featuring Madeleine Ertel on trumpet, Naomi McCarroll-Butler on alto saxophone and clarinet, Patrick O'Reilly on guitar, and Joe Sorbara on drums and percussion.
The group often gathers in the Southern Cross Lounge of Toronto's much-beloved Tranzac Club for a semi-monthly residency exploring original music in the Black American Creative Music tradition. Of late, they have been joined by a group of friendly adventurers including bassists Brandon Davis and Adrian Russouw, violinist Kelvin Mansaray, vibraphonist Racha Moukalled, and multi-instrumentalist Kae Murphy. Perhaps the expanded ensemble could be called Never Was No Net.
The group's name comes from a Sorbara composition called "It's a line that never was," itself named after a curious sentence from The You Train by science fiction and fantasy writer, N.K. Jemisin.
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