The quick and dirty deets:
What’s happening: GRYPHON TRIO raises awareness for Progress Place with a concert & CD launch, “BROKEN HEARTS & MADMEN”.
When & Where: Sun., Oct. 2 at 8 PM / Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas Street West
Why this is fabulous: For starters, Patricia O’Callaghan is featured on the recording and will sing at the launch. She is sophisticated and pulls off a flower in her hair like nobody’s business. And her Spanish is bang-on! And the rep is typical Gryphon: some traditional (like Beethoven) and some not-so-traditional chamber music: Piazzola … Leonard Cohen … Nick Drake ….. the Gryphons dedicates this performance to raising awareness for Progress Place, a recovery centre for people with backgrounds of mental illness. Progress Place provides friendship, employment, education, and housing in a supportive environment.
Wanna hear it? Attend? Buy it? Here’s how. Come out to Lula Lounge – it’s a cool venue and the food’s tasty. For the CD concert launch: $39 online in advance; $45 at the door (includes HST and CD); $10 for students (includes HST only) 416 588 0307. Tix: www.lulalounge.ca or 416 588 0307. Dinner reservations available (dinner & not included).
For more info: www.gryphontrio.com / www.patricia-ocallaghan.com / http://www.andrewkwanartists.com/
Gryphon Trio thanks the John McKellar Charitable Foundation; Music Toronto; Analekta; Andrew Kwan Artist Management, and Chamber Factory for their support of Broken Hearts & Madmen.
Questions? I’m here. liz@lizpr.com
Jamie Parker, warming up before a Gryphon Trio concert at U of T. Yes, he is chewing a Mentos.