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Sean Cronin is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who lives in Catskill, NY. His dad played with Ian Tyson and his mom worked for Parks Canada. He enjoys other singer/songwriters such as Harry Partch, John Prine, and Jelly Roll Morton. His current band, Gory Dove, is an anagram of his former band, Very Good. In each performance he integrates his loves of dada and small-town Canada with equal aplomb.

Forgetting is Violent, saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi’s latest solo album, is his most immediate release yet, expanding the scope not just of his music but of his extramusical considerations. Where his past releases on American Dreams reckoned with racism against Japanese Americans, Forgetting is Violent considers racism as a whole, historical and ongoing, with the urgency it deserves. The constant, as ever, is Shiroishi’s patient, probing musicality, marrying heaviness and lightness, acceptance and defiance, both packing a punch and welcoming new listeners into the fold.

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.