Bob Wiseman and Mike Boguski

Bob Wiseman and Mike Boguski Two Pianos No Rodeo 
Live in the Green Sanderson Hall at Hugh's Room, 296 Broadview Avenue

Show at 8pm, Doors at 7pm
$30+ in advance, $37+at the door

When do you ever get the chance to see two of Canada's best piano players performing together, both from one of Canada’s legendary bands, Blue Rodeo?

Two incredible artists in one intimate venue. Bob Wiseman, a founding member of Blue Rodeo and winner of five JUNO Awards, is a film composer, songwriter, and author. He has discovered or produced many artists, including Ron Sexsmith, The Lowest of the Low, Bruce McCulloch of Kids in the Hall, and former Canadian MP Andrew Cash. Bob has released 13 albums featuring guests like Daniel Lanois, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Eugene Chadbourne, Edie Brickell, Ron Sexsmith, Jane Siberry, Basia Bulat, and Serena Ryder. 

Bob Wiseman and Mike Boguski, two of Canada’s most unpredictable keyboard minds are taking turns dismantling and reimagining what a solo piano set can be. One piano. Two artists. Zero cowboy hats. 

BOB WISEMAN Founding member of Blue Rodeo. Punk pianist. Lo-fi provocateur. Think Monk meets Burroughs at a Toronto dive bar. Expect sound collage, biting satire, sonic left turns. Nothing’s off limits.

MIKE BOGUSKI Current Blue Rodeo pianist. Ambient soul explorer. A master of restraint and reverie. Piano as landscape. Melody as memory. Quiet storms and cinematic swells. Musical cliff jumping.

Each artist takes the same piano and launches in opposite directions - solo, stripped down, wide open.
One piano. Two deeply personal journeys.
No safety net. No genre crutches. No rodeo.

Come for the clash of styles.
Stay for the communion.
This is piano as protest, as prayer or as whatever they feel that night.

"Two Pianos, No Rodeo" is for those who like their art live, unexpected and slightly dangerous. Think of it less like a show and more like two sonic postcards from different planets sent through the same grand piano. Sunday September 7.

 

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