Montreal-based NO HAY BANDA performs Steven Kazuo Takasugi's Sideshow (2009-15), an hour-long theatrical work for chamber octet, electronic amplification, and playback. Based on the dark sideshows of Coney Island’s amusement parks in the early part of the 20th century, Sideshow is a work of music theatre that is framed in a chamber music performance suggesting a circus sideshow, or freak show. The work is a meditation on virtuosity, entertainment, spectacle, business, and the sacrifices one makes to survive in the world.

Show dates

Wednesday, 2 November 2022, 8pm

Thursday, 3 November 2022, 8pm

$20 / $15 (choose your price)

Concert run time: 60 minutes (no intermission)

NO HAY BANDA: Jeff Stonehouse, flute; Lori Freedman, clarinet; Yves Charuest, alto saxophone; Geneviève Liboiron, violin; Jean René, viola; Émilie Girard-Charest, cello; Daniel Áñez, piano; Noam Bierstone, solo vocalizing percussionist.

Steven Kazuo Takasugi, composition, staging; Gabriel Dufour-Laperrière, electronics.