FIMAV Preview

A preview of this weekend’s beginning to FIMAV, the annual Victoriaville fest, from the Montreal Gazette:

This year, the focus is on free jazz, improvised music and acoustic instrumentation, with none of the noise headliners featured in previous editions. The festival will also present Montreal-based musicians, including veteran rocker Lucien Francoeur, dramatic viola improviser Jean René and younger groups closer to the post- and avant-rock scenes. The top draw is the iconic John Zorn, the New York based saxophonist/composer, who leads two groups Thursday and Friday. Three veterans of Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians – pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell and trombonist George Lewis – close the festival Sunday. Smith and his Golden Quartet will be playing selections from the 21 movements of his Ten Freedom Summers

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