Artist: Alex Samaras
Songs: Everybody Says Don't [composer: Stephen Sondheim] + Show Me + Chinese Café [composer: Joni Mitchell]
Recorded at The Canadian Music Centre (Riparian Acoustics/CMC Presents), January 17, 2019.
Alex Samaras - Everybody Says Don't
Another astute booking from Nick Storring/Riparian Acoustics (whose curation of the CMC Presents series has recently been extended for a second season), giving vocalist Alex Samaras a chance to pull together a night of songs from the various musical worlds he spends time on. I've never seen one of Samaras' Sondheim/cabaret shows — well, except inasmuch as he brings some of that into everything he does — but this had that kind of vibe, albeit with music ranging from art-song to Meredith Monk to Morton Feldman to Thom Yorke to locals Bernice. Backing from Lara Dodds-Eden (piano) and Bram Gielen (double bass), as well as Samaras' story-telling, added to the cabaret feel, animated by Samaras' joyful presence throughout.
As of this posting, the event's archived livestream is still online, so you can watch the whole performance:
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