TIME & DATE: Thursday February 5th, 5PM to 9PM
LOCATION: AWE, 3rd floor, Rodzik Gallery
COST:
General Admission includes one hand crafted beverage from Maiden Lane Wine & Cocktail Bar. Purchase an enhanced ticket to include a personal charcuterie board.
You’re invited to Thursday’s Live: Where the River Bends, a live music series hosted at AWE.
This Live Music from AWE series features Canadian musicians from diverse musical backgrounds.
The Windsor-Detroit skyline is the guiding inspiration of this series. Audiences will experience musical soundscapes, acoustic performances, live beat making, beautiful vocal performances, and electric instrumental ensembles in the Rodzik Gallery while enjoying the view of the skyline, which acts as our living backdrop behind the stage.
Where music and our landscape merge, we hope to facilitate an environment where audiences can feel a spirit of connection to the land on both sides of the river and a renewed sense of appreciation for the place in which we are situated.
Moonsuits is a Windsor-based folk-ish duo writing stripped-down songs with impactful harmonies. Influenced by folk, punk, indie, and pop, they mix sincerity with dry humour and the occasional cynical turn. Photo credit: Madeline Mazak.
Eamon McGrath is a Windsor-based musician with a 15+ year touring history of Canada, the UK, the USA, Europe, Mexico and Japan. He has released over 25 albums, written 2 books, scored 2 feature films, and toured the world relentlessly since 2007, cultivating an international audience and committed, loyal network of fans. His fiercely DIY approach has garnered him respect and admiration in both the indie rock and folk communities, as he effortlessly bridges a gap between both genres, composing heartbreakingly beautiful songs that are performed with an honest, intense energy on stages worldwide.
@eamon_mcgrath
Esteemed post-rock ensemble What Seas, What Shores recently celebrated their 20th anniversary— a milestone that also marks ten years since the release of their acclaimed 2015 album, Spiritual Nap Machine.
Formed in Windsor, Ontario in 2005, the band quickly earned recognition for their immersive sound and boundary-pushing compositions that seamlessly wove together elements of post-rock, experimental jazz and ambient textures. Over the years and several national tours, they developed a dedicated following through their deeply affecting live performances and rich, exploratory recordings.
In the wake of Spiritual Nap Machine, the band embarked on their ambitious Pacific Tour, performing in cities across Taiwan and Japan, where they were met with packed rooms and warm international reception. These performances solidified the group’s reputation as a deeply resonant live act, with music that transcended language and genre.
What Seas, What Shores reunite for the opportunity to experience the band’s full lineup live, revisiting material from across their two-decade catalogue.
Lil Misho is an Anishinaabe (Walpole Island First Nation) electronic music producer and DJ blending Detroit techno, house, and ghettotech with Indigenous sound design. They fuse pow wow drum, jingle cones, rattles, and land-based samples with drum machines and synthesizers to create high-energy futurist tracks.
Lil Misho creates electronic music rooted in Anishinaabe futurism. And this sound world reflects both ancestral memory and future dreaming, offering spaces as sites of resurgence, movement, and communal power sparking pathways between tradition, innovation, and collective creativity.
@sacramentoknoxx
Jeremy Klaver is a cultural worker with over a decade of experience across the Canadian music landscape. Jeremy’s career spans several sectors, having served as Development Manager for the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, Jury Supervisor at FACTOR (the Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings), as well as roles with booking agencies and record labels. A prolific event producer, Jeremy has spent his career curating concerts and festivals that bridge the gap between artistic excellence and community engagement.
@jeremyklaver
He is the curator for this year’s iteration of Where the River Bends.
