Graham Martin was the star of the show on November 18, 2017, taking the contrabassoon front and centre in a solo role. HATE MAIL & Irreconcilable Trolls by Spy Dénommé-Welch & (DFM’s own) Catherine Magowan is a 20 minute work for voice, contrabassoon, piano, electronics, projections. Inspired by ridiculous hate mail and Read more…
I was thrilled to play one of the coolest gigs of my life…so far…Back-up bassoon for the Arkells at the 2015 Juno Awards!!!! Yeah, so that bassoonist who scored all the camera time??? This girl.
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Exciting moments of the Junos for the entire Orchestra? Watching Arkells win Rock Album of the Year 5 minutes before taking the stage to perform Come to Light with them!!!! (Their other nomination was group of the year…which they won at the Gala on Saturday night.) Needless to say, they are a kick-ass band and it was frigging amazing to be on stage with them.
So the gig…what was it like? Well, to share an insider secret…big productions and movies/TV filming is all the same…Hurry up to wait. You end up with a really early call time, you doll yourself up, then hope the hairspray will hold for the next 3 hours!!! BUT, just because it isn’t the glamorous life that people imagine, it doesn’t mean that it wasn’t the coolest weekend of my life!!! (more…)
Hey, I’m Catherine! I was a late-comer to the bassoon, having only started towards the end of high school. Up until then I was a flute player, with a special interest in the piccolo (of all things), and my family had resigned themselves to having an underemployed treble maker in Read more…
Graham is an elementary school teacher and has noticed that there is a lot of bassoon-related flotsam in his room even though he doesn’t actually have any kids that play the bassoon. Besides a number of engagements with Das Fagott Mannschaft, Graham has recently played with the Sneak Peak Orchestra, the Read more…
Hayyyy. Its me, Neil. You may remember me from our music video that came out just shy of a year ago and all other DFM performances. I’m the baby of the group. Not only am I the youngest but I throw tantrums when I don’t get my way and I Read more…
I have been running around like crazy…I actually think I worked less when I had a day job and I wasn’t “self-employed”…The difference is, now I get to do the work I like and it is all bassoon related! (My name is Susan, and I am a bassoon-nerd.)
So…things I have been busy with:
1) I have been busy knocking out some DFM arrangements…spoiler alert, we now have Fat-Bottomed Girls by Queen in our arsenal! I’m debating Shout and Jump in the Line for my next projects… (more…)