Rob Mosher

20-Jul-2014Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival, “Klezmanaughts”

Like Klesmer music? Like outer space? Then check out “Klezmanaughts” as performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival as part of the Polebridge Canadian CD release. Thank you Eduardo Carli de Moraes for taking the time to record and share the video!

20-Jul-2014 in Events, Polebridge

17-Jul-2014Interview with Bonnie Johnson on WICN

Had a great time chatting with Bonnie Johnson in an interview on WICN a few weeks ago just before the Polebridge CD release tour in Canada. She’s a lot of fun to talk with, check it out!

17-Jul-2014 in Interview, Polebridge

10-Jun-2014Polebridge Canadian CD-Release Tour

Summer is upon us! With plenty of food, books, weekends and sunscreen to go around why not add live music to the mix? Without further ado… announcing the 2014 Canadian Polebridge CD-release tour! Coming (hopefully) to a city near you:

Sat June 28th, 2p Campbellford, ON @ Aron Theatre
Sun June 29th, 7:30p Toronto, ON @ 80 Gladstone
Mon June 30th, 7:30p London, ON @ First-St Andrews United Church
Wed July 2nd, 7:30p Ottawa, ON @ GigSpace
Thu July 3rd, 10p Montreal, QC @ Montreal Jazz Festival

Rob Mosher, clarinet/soprano sax/music; Lina Allemano/Micah Killion, trumpet; Aline Homzy, violin; Greg de Denus, piano; Andrew Small, acoustic bass / fiddle. Proudly presented with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Press inquiries: Ann Braithwaite 781-259-9600 ann@bkmusicpr.com.

Come say hi.

Video: Around the Bend

10-Jun-2014 in Events, Polebridge

6-Jan-2014Bass Concerto Premiere

Recital featuring Joe Phillips (bass) & Peter Longworth (piano) featuring new music by Rob Mosher, Andrew Downing and Peter Longworth. Premiere’s in Toronto, ON January 8th and London, ON January 12th. I’ve worked with Joe for years and he’s a stellar musician and person – not to be missed!

6-Jan-2014 in Collaborations, Events

25-Nov-2013Video: “Storyville – Meet the Music”

25-Nov-2013 in Storyville

13-Nov-2013Video: “Rango’s Tango”

13-Nov-2013 in Film, Polebridge

26-Oct-2013Development

The topic of form came up while catching up with a friend yesterday, more specifically how music tends to develop after the initial theme or themes have been established. It’s literally called the development section in music theory textbooks. It got me thinking about the role of growth and development in our own lives and it’s parallels with composition.

For example, in every piece I write I like to start from a place of comfort, similar to how you might start a conversation with a hug, hello and checking in on how the other person is doing. Or in running how you might stretch first. Or in cooking a meal (what can I say I’m hungry at the moment) how you gather your ingredients and start cooking them together in their optimum order. Ultimately, we’re given a chance to take a risk, branch out – to develop – and create something new from what is familiar. A new topic; a new running path or refreshened perspective on the same old; a twist on how you cook your breakfast.

After this is done we return to where we came from; we hug our friend goodbye; return home from running; put the cooked food on the plate and start eating (ok now I really need to go make food) but we have somehow developed in doing so. In developing what we do we develop who we are.

26-Oct-2013 in All