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The
Unbreakable Guy Nadon
As part
of their mission to make art and culture an integral part of the
local community, CIEM organized a benefit concert with Guy Nadon
and his band. Guy Nadon is a very well known Montreal
drummer for the past 50 years. He has built a drum set
made of food cans, oil drums and pie dishes. This unusual
inventive musician has contributed to the development of
Canadian Jazz. During the 1998, Montreal Jazz Festival, he
was awarded the (10th) Oscar-Peterson prize. |
Guy Nadon
Benefit Concert,
9th December 2006
8:30 p.m. at the Manoir Belle Rivière Hall, 8106 Chemin
Belle-Rivière, Mirabel.
This saxophonist was superb
and when he played his bass clarinet, Nadon said that he likes
his music "Claire et net" (Clear & neat).
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Guy Nadon treated us to an entertaining evening
while demonstrating that at 73 he still uses his drum sticks
with ease and is a comedian to boot! Although some of what
he said, was not easily comprehensible, funny it was. We
heard only one set, ending with a Charleston beat (which made it
hard to remain seated)...then the lights went out! Well it
was almost 11 p.m. so Françoise Velmote, Michel Gautier and I,
took off since we did have a rather long drive back. Nadon
uses his drum sticks not only on the drum set in front of him,
he taps them against each other, taps the light fixtures above
him. And when he sits down by what he called his "Artisanal"
set, constructed of oil pails and cans, and one of the pie
dishes flew off, he said...."This is written in my Partitura!"
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