Tuesday, November 9 - 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 10 - 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $25

• Tomson Highway - piano, vocals
  
• Patricia Cano - vocals
• Vince Rimbach - saxophone

The show features 12 new songs composed and written by acclaimed artist, playwright and novelist, Tomson Highway. 'Kisageetin', a Cree word meaning "l love you," suitably describes the production comprised of love lullabies and theatrical pieces.

Tomson Highway was born in a snow bank on the Manitoba/Nunavut border to a family of nomadic caribou hunters. He had the great privilege of growing up in two languages, neither of which was French or English; they were Cree, his mother tongue, and Dene, the language of the neighbouring "nation," a people with whom they roamed and hunted.

Today, he enjoys an international career as playwright, novelist, and pianist/songwriter. His best known works are the plays, The Rez Sisters, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, Rose, and Ernestine Shuswap gets her Trout, and the best-selling novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen. For many years, he ran Canada's premiere Native theatre company, Native Earth Performing Arts (based in Toronto),out of which has emerged an entire generation of professional Native playwrights, actors and, more indirectly, the many other Native theatre companies that now dot the country.

• "a master of the playful pastiche..."
• "she’s got a Broadway belter’s voice and the stage presence to match..."
• "plays his Steinway in a cheerfully flashy style..."
• "giddy humour and warmth of spirit..."
  – Martin Morrow, Globe and Mail
  

Patricia Cano is a Sudbury-born singer whose family comes from Lima, Peru. Her music crosses between contemporary jazz, Afro-Peruvian, samba, and soul.  In November 2009, she released her first album, This is the New World.

Originally from New Jersey, saxophonist Vince Rimbach, a graduate of the world-renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston, is one of the most respected musician-composer-arrangers in the Ottawa area. Vince has played with all of the top musicians in the region and collaborated with some top international musicians. "Rimbach is the real thing – a musician who has absorbed what the jazz greats had to say and then developed a sound of his own" - Doug Fischer, Ottawa Citizen

www.patriciacano.com (warning: intrusive Flash app)
www.myspace.com/patriciaceciliacano
http://www.vincerimbach.com/

More info: www.nac-cna.ca/en/whatson/event.cfm?ID=6477

National Arts Centre, Fourth Stage
53 Elgin Street
Ottawa