Chris Butcher Music

I’m trying to blog more frequently so here’s a little one.
Here’s a video filmed on my iPhone from the horn section of the stage at Lula, from Roberto Linares Brown’s gig there on Saturday. It was a really fun night with some of the guys from Tiempo Libre coming out and sitting in after their [...]

I remember my first time hearing Alexis Baro. It was September 2007 and it was actually the first show I saw of a local band upon moving to Toronto. My parents had just left that morning from moving me out to Ontario, I was on my own for the first time in my life. I [...]

This Wednesday night January 27th my trio with:
Todd Pentney- Piano
Jon Meyer- Upright Bass
will be playing the music of Thelonious Sphere Monk at Gate 403 in the late slot from 9PM-12AM.
Monk’s music is both extremely idiosyncratic and at the same time impossibly catchy. Vijay Iyer said it well:
“There is immense power and careful logic in the [...]

It’s happening.
We had talked about doing something like this for a long time but this coming Monday December 14th @ 9 The Heavyweights brass band will be debuting at The Central 603 Markham Street, just steps from Honest Ed’s.
We met under strange circumstances, we played a tune on my final recital but this is it. [...]

I haven’t been updating this as much as I like but here goes another one.
There’s a show this Saturday night I want to help spread the word about.
Terra Brasil at the Isabel Bader Theatre (93 Charles Street West)
This Saturday December 5 starting at 8PM
“Be prepared to experience the spirit and culture of Brazil through the [...]

Just posting a little solo I played with Maninho Costa’s Batucada Carioca. Also note my sweet video editing abilities.

Batucada is a very African influenced style of Samba music played by a Bateria (large drum ensemble, in this case with the addition of Trombone, Cavaquinho and bass). Carioca is a term referring to the music’s origins [...]

It’s hard for me not to gush when writing about Lula Lounge. If you aren’t familiar Lula is a beautiful club in West Toronto. It is most certainly Canada’s premier venue for World music and also so much more. Truly delicious food if you come early, a dance lesson, and of course my favourite part, [...]

It’s here! I’ve spent along time thinking about having my own little place on the web and I’m glad to say it’s finally happened.
This website was pretty much done by me and if you knew anything about how much I know about computers, that’s a huge accomplishment. I got on Wordpress as soon as I’d [...]

Well folks all the content is up on the website.
I’ll be getting together with Andrew Louis later in the week, to add a banner and clean up the formatting, but it’s all here, enjoy.
Check back soon for some interesting blogs.

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