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Autorickshaw
with special guest Gordon Sheard
Thursday, Sept. 25 @ 8:30 pm
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas Street West
416-588-0307 for dinner reservations & guaranteed seating
$12 @ the door
"Seriously talented musicians who weave a tapestry of musical traditions into a unique and inspiring sonic alchemy. Absolutely beautiful." ~Dave O'Rama, CHLY FM
This show will feature brand new repertoire from Autorickshaw, a band on the global fusion cutting edge, for whom contemporary jazz and funk easily rub shoulders with the classical and popular music of India.
Formed in 2003, Autorickshaw has swiftly risen to become one of the most intriguing acts on the world music and jazz landscapes.
After garnering a 2004 Juno Award nomination for World Music Album of the Year and winning a Canadian Independent Music Award in 2005, Autorickshaw was nominated for a 2008 Juno Award in the World Music Album of the Year category. It's the latest in a string of acknowledgments for the group's 2007 release, So the Journey Goes. Most recently, Autorickshaw's original composition "Heavy Traffic" won the prestigious John Lennon Songwriting Contest Grand Prize in World Music. The JLSC is an international competition, and their song was chosen from hundreds of submissions.
Their sound showcases the sultry, sophisticated vocals of Suba Sankaran, anchored by the melodic basslines of Rich Brown, over a bed of intricate Indian percussion by Ed Hanley and global rhythms by percussionist Patrick Graham. The group's diverse repertoire draws from the classical music of north and south India, jazz and popular music, with a healthy dose of original compositions. Such a range of Eastern and Western elements could only come from musicians with deep roots in both traditions.
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Composer, pianist, producer GORDON SHEARD has enjoyed a many-faceted career as a professional musician for three decades. During that time he has toured with the bands Manteca, Rick Shadrach Lazar and The Montuno Police, and Montreal bassist Alain Caron's Le Band, among others.
From 1984 to 1987 he toured extensively with fluegelhornist/composer Chuck Mangione and his work as a studio pianist/keyboardist may be heard on recordings by Lorraine Segato (formerly of Parachute Club), Rita McNeil, Liona Boyd, Louise Pitre, Eliana Cuevas, Yvette Tollar, Carol Welsman, Brian Hughes, Stan Samole, Levon Ichkhanian, Terry Kelly, and Ron Hines, among many others. Gordon has also performed as a musician in the musical theater and in numerous other live performance situations.
He is also a jazz educator, and teaches part time at Toronto's Humber College School of Creative and Performing Arts.