Events Calendar

Caley Watts is a singer/songwriter who grew up along the riverbanks, mountain ranges, and ancient conifers that fill the Great Bear Rainforest, and her blend of folk and roots draws heavily on the pace and beauty of her home. Spotlighted by CBC Music as one of 5 Indigenous musicians to know in 2025, they praised the “understated magic” of Caley’s music, saying “it’s easy to imagine oneself whisked far away from the insularity of daily life, to somewhere wilder and grander.” Watts’ debut album, River’s Daughter, was just released this spring.

Employing unorthodox polyrhythmic vocabulary, drummer, improviser, composer and researcher Kevin Romain’s Autopoietic summons an illusory and paradoxical embodied sensation of movement through space on multiple simultaneous temporal planes. These improvisations are miniature explorations of the phenomenology of polyrhythm and the complex affective states to which it gives rise.

Solo sets will be followed by a short duo collaboration and artist talk about form in music, presented in association with IICSI at the University of British Columbia. Thanks to Talking Stick Festival.