JUNE 05, 2012

At the Montreal Jazz Festival!

We’ve had to wait until today to announce that we’re playing at the Montreal Jazz Festival (June 29th 6:00pm) outside on the TD Stage.  We’re really excited for the opportunity and are competing for the TD Grand Jazz Award and the Galaxie Rising Star Award.

Hope to see you there or at one of our other tour dates  in Alberta (Medicine Hat Jazz Festival), New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and at the The Rex on June 25 at 6:30, during the Toronto Jazz Festival.

Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts for their support of this tour.

MAY 28, 2012

Jazz Festival Tour

Peripheral Vision is excited to be heading on tour in Alberta and the Maritimes for a 10 day jazz festival tour (supported by a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts!).  We’ll be kicking it off at the Medicine Hat Jazz Festival, and ending up at big exciting festival, which we aren’t allowed to announce until June 4th.  In-between we’re excited to play some new places like Fredericton and Moncton in the east and Red Deer in Alberta, as well as re-visit Halifax, Calgary and Edmonton.  Also look for us in Toronto at The Rex on June 25 at 6:30, during the Toronto Jazz Festival.

Hope to see you at one of these shows!

MARCH 17, 2012

March 2012 Tour

Peripheral Vision is heading on tour March 22-26.  We’re excited to be making our first Spectacle: LIVE! stops in these cities.
March 22 - The Branch Restaurant, Kemptville ON
March 23 & 24 - Café Paradiso, Ottawa
March 25 - Kingston Jazz Society’s “Live at the Library” series
March 26 - Casa del Popolo, Montreal - opening band: Adrian Vedady and Kate Wyatt Quartet

More info on our gigs page: www.peripheralvisionmusic.com/gigs

We’ll be playing back in Toronto at the Tranzac April 3rd for Our drummer Nick Fraser’s birthday party!

Look for exciting June festival tour announcements in April!

JANUARY 07, 2012

JPEC Concert and March Tour

It’s going to be a busy winter for Peripheral Vision.  Most excitingly we’re opening for John Hébert and Lucian Ban’s “Enesco Re-Imagined” as part of the JPEC Concert Series - February 17th.  Check out this amazing band made up of some of our favourite musicians and influences: Joyce Hammann violin, Mat Maneri viola, Ralph Alessi trumpet, Tony Malaby tenor saxophone, Lucian Ban piano and orchestration, John Hebert bass and orchestration, Gerald Cleaver drums, Badal Roy tabla / percussion.

Then in March (23-26) we’re going on tour to Ottawa, Kingston and Montreal.  Check out the gigs page for more info.

We’re also starting a new residency at the Tranzac.  The first Tuesday or every Month (Feb. 7th, April 3rd, May 1st, June 5th).  We’ll be having a different guest opening band each time, to be announced soon.

Hope to see you at a show soon!

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Great Spectacle Live press & Apathy Is Boring

Thanks to everyone who came out across Canada and made for such a great CD release tour.

Some great Spectacle: LIVE! reviews:

J.D. Considine in the Globe and Mail

Peter Hum for the Ottawa Citizen/jazzblog.ca

You can see us on BTV Winnipeg here

Here’s our profile on a great website, apathyisboring.com.   It’s a great website encouraging youth to get out and vote.   We’re really excited to be included in this!

JULY 24, 2011

Announcing Spectacle: Live! CD Release and Tour

We are excited to announce the upcoming release of Spectacle: Live!, recorded at the The Cellar in Vancouver, while on tour last fall.  Along with the CD we will be doing a Western Canadian tour this coming September/October with dates in Victoria, Nanaimo, Denman Island, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Medicine Hat, Swift Current, Winnipeg, and Brandon.  Visit our gigs page for more info.

Supported by grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council

      

MAY 07, 2011

May Gigs and Fall Tour

May is a busy month for Peripheral Vision - we’re at the Rex every Sunday night (except the 29th), 7-9, and are also playing at the Tranzac May 10, 7:30-9:30.  All of these gigs are Pay What You Can.  Hope to see you at one of these shows!
The Purple Cabbage, a new Toronto Jazz and Creative Music Review blog, continues to be very supportive of our music.  They recently chose “Says You” for their first “Toronto Mixed Tape” - The Cabbage Tapes: Vol. 1, along with songs by our friends Tara Davidson, Ernesto Cervini and well established Toronto drummer Barry Elmes.

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Purple Cabbage Review

Purple Cabbage, a new Toronto Jazz and Creative Music Review blog just did a great review of our album, saying “…one of Toronto’s most promising Jazz groups… What I find most satisfying about Peripheral Vision is their ability to stretch far rhythmically and harmonically, while remaining rooted in beautiful, sing-able melodies.” Also check-out their review of the top 10 jazz moustaches of all time!

Click here to read the whole review

FEBRUARY 09, 2011

Peripheral Vision Spring Activities

Catch us around Toronto this spring at our new monthly spot at the Tranzac, the second Tuesday of every month, 7:30-9:30, as well as at the Emmet Ray and in May we be doing a weekly show at the Rex Sunday nights, 7-9. See our gigs page for more details
We’re excited to have captured our performance at Vancouver’s The Cellar last November during our CD release tour, and are currently working on mixing and mastering a digital release of that, coming out in May or June 2011.

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Toronto CD Release

December 2, 2010 - 8pm, $10
The TRANE Studio - 964 Bathurst St.

We’re excited to be back from our fourteen-city National Tour to do our official home-town CD launch party at The TRANE Studio. The tour was a phenomenal time - the music grew, the band had a great hang, and it was amazing to meet so many people across the country. Thanks the presenters and the audience who came out and made it such a success.

Here’s the official release invite, and a link to the release poster:

click to view the poster

You are cordially invited to a CD Launch Event!
  Just back from their sold-out fourteen-city National Canadian Tour,
  “Peripheral Vision”
  Featuring Don Scott, Michael Herring, Nick Fraser and Trevor Hogg
  celebrate the Toronto launch of their self-titled debut CD on
  Thursday, December 2nd, at Toronto’s favourite jazz club,
  “The TRANE Studio Jazz Lounge”
  (964 Bathurst St. – Two Blocks N. of Bloor - 416-913-8917)
  as space is limited, reservations are highly recommended,
  and there will be a $10.00 entertainment charge for the general public.
  A full menu of nouvelle, gourmet Southern and Caribbean cuisine is available   from 6:00 PM,
  and the band will take the stage at 8:00 PM
  For Media accommodations, please contact LMC Media
  by phone at 416-486-6742, or by e-mail at lmcmedia@sympatico.ca.

AUGUST 20, 2010

Brand New Website

Welcome to Peripheral Vision’s brand new website! It’s an exciting time for us as we’re not only launching this great new website (made by Yesim Tosuner from Backyard Design) but more importantly we are releasing our debut self-titled CD with a national CD release tour in October and November. Please sign up for our mailing list so that we can let you know when we are coming to your town.

The tour and CD are supported by the Ontario Arts Council, The Canada Council for the Arts and FACTOR.