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The WoodChoppers are musical & artistic friends specializing in freestyle improvisation and multi-disciplinary presentations.
Festivals:
The DuMaurier Downtown Toronto Jazz Festival (Toronto, Canada)
The Hillside Music Festival (Guelph, Canada)
The Guelph Jazz Festival (Guelph, Canada)
The Do What? Music and Arts Festival 1999/2001 (Toronto, Canada [festival hosts])
Winter Garden Of Earthly Delights (Toronto, Canada)
The Sprites of Spring (Toronto, Canada)
The Rustcapades (Toronto, Canada)
(416) 2001 It's a Local Call (NOW Lounge, Toronto, Canada)

Broadcasts:
Gord Downie and Company (webcast); May 10 2001 (Manta Sound Studios, Toronto, Canada)

Bandwidth; June 30 2001 (CBC radio one, Canada)

Collaborated & performed with dancers/choreographers:
Yvonne Ng
Lisa Prebianca
Marc Johnson
Andrea Nann
Leslie Lindsay
Kate Alton
Barb Balthus
Sandor Eisenstadt
"Maverick Recrements" (Toronto, Canada)

Presented & performed with award winning independent films by:
Steve Reinke
Alley Ethier
Milida Kovac
Yossi Kaplan

Collaborated & performed with musicians:
John Boyle vocalist / kazooist (The Nihilist Spasm Band)
Art Pratten inventor of the "Pratt-a-various" (The Nihilist Spasm Band)
Nick Didkovsky guitarist (Dr. Nerve/ Fred Frith guitar quartet)
Jean Derome saxophonist (Les Dangereuse Hommes)
Joane Hetu saxophonist/vocalist (Justine)
Paul Dutton sound poet (CCMC)
Tom Walsh trombonist (Les Dangereuse Hommes)
Reiner Weins guitarist
Eugene Martynec digital manipulator
Gordon Downie singer, poet, guitarist, dancer (The Tragically Hip)
Glenn Hall saxophonist

Collaborated & performed with poets:
Rob Siciliano
Carol Swantek
Movern McNie
Suzanne Hancock
Chris Chambers
Ken Babstock

Live musical improvisations & collaborations based on works by:
Fastwurms - installation artists
Scott Cameron - painter/photographer
Dave Blumenfeld - photographer
Anne Zbitnew - multi-media visual artist

Accompaniment to silent film classics:
"The Thief of Baghdad" & "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
(Winter Garden of Earthly Delights - Toronto, Canada)
" The Hunchback of Notre Dame" & "The Phantom of the Opera"
(The Inner Stage Theatre - Guelph, Canada)
"The Phantom of the Opera"
(The Fox Auditorium - Guelph, Canada)

Performed & presented live improvised theatre plays:
"Squirrel Boy", "Battle of The Clefs" & "99" (Toronto, Canada)

Educational Workshops
The Soho Children's Museum (NYC, USA)
The WCA has taught the art of musical improvisation at festivals and secondary schools in Ontario, Canada.