DON COYOTE: MATT MASTERS, TERRANCE HOULE AND OTHERS
June 25th-June 28th @ 7:30pm
Glenbow Museum (130 9 Ave SE)
ConocoPhillips Theatre
$7
Classic country singer and Calgary performance artist, Matt Masters, has co-created a multimedia western cabaret musical called Don Coyote. Watch and listen to Masters and his six piece western orchestra tell the tale of Don Coyote, while Calgary artist Terrance Houle’s original video projections provide a changing and dynamic backdrop. Don Coyote is a 21st-century resident of southern Alberta who sees himself as a cowboy troubadour, roaming rural Alberta while singing songs and righting wrongs. Don Coyote’s story is not a re-telling of Don Quixote but draws inspiration and parallels from it, examining reality through different perspectives. Themes of illusion, honour and loyalty are examined in nine songs and stories about Don Coyote, his sidekick Sancho and the Cowboy Code.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Calgary-based Matt Masters has become a well-known exporter of prairie lore and folk music. Matt has led a nine-piece band, performed solo in front of thousands, sung in churches and at rodeos, played at bars full of bikers, at backyard parties with the Prime Minister and performed in French at the Biennale de Montreal 2007. In 2005, Matt created and toured an Alberta Music History Revue to 100 communities around Alberta. Matt Master’s band for Don Coyote includes Tynan Groves, Shelly Groves, Jeff Sulima and Frank Barth.
Terrance Houle is a registered member of the Blood Tribe. Involved with Aboriginal communities all his life, he has traveled to reservations throughout Canada and the United States to participate in Powwow trail dancing and other native ceremonies. Terrance began his art career at the Alberta College of Art + Design. He has developed an extensive portfolio that ranges from painting and drawing to video/film, mixed media, performance and installation. His works have been shown throughout Calgary in solo and group exhibitions, including exhibitions dealing with issues of discrimination.
Vanessa Porteous is a Calgary based director and dramaturg. This season she directed Helen’s Necklace with Urban Curvz Theatre; The Syringa Tree at Alberta Theatre Projects; Snake in the Grass at Vertigo Theatre; and La Divina and Le portrait de Manon with the Calgary Opera Emerging Artists Ensemble. She dramaturged The Wars at Theatre Calgary and Flop! at Quest Theatre. Next season Vanessa will direct a new production with The Old Trout Puppet Workshop. Vanessa Porteous appears courtesy of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.
Immanuela Lawrence is Don Coyote’s stage manager and project coordinator. She fell in love with theatre working at Boom Chicago in Amsterdam. She has worked on countless productions since, at Theatre Ste. Catherine in Montreal, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and regularly at the Loose Moose Theatre in Calgary.