North Island Concert Society presents: Michael Kaeshammer

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Saturday, November 1st, 2014
7:30 PM

The 2014-2015 North Island Concert Society concert series begins with Michael Kaeshammer, a gifted singer and songwriter, and piano player.

Information about single and season tickets is available at: http://www.niconcert.ca/ticket_info.htm

The 2014-2015 tickets are available at Cafe Guido, Port Hardy Museum, Port McNeill Flower Shoppe and from Gail Neely in Port Alice at: (250) 284-3927.

About the Artist
On 2011’s KAESHAMMER (Alert Music/Universal), Michael Kaeshammer doesn’t simply wow you with his chops; he invites you in and talks to you. Yes, he’s a gifted singer and songwriter, a highly trained technician and interpreter and an incendiary
piano player. But also, on stage and off, he’s a consummate host.

Recorded at Toronto’s Drive Shed and Keen Studios in 2010 and produced by Ron Lopata (Jacksoul, Ron Sexsmith) KAESHAMMER plays like a love letter to life – A
set of original songs as playful as they are contagious. Literally, a feast for your ears
that blends ingredients from Kaeshammer’s vast store of jazz, soul, pop and R&B influences, served up fresh, piping hot, and with a huge helping of joy on the side.

That joy is clear from the first note of KAESHAMMER, as is Kaeshammer’s uncanny ability to take ‘a bit of musical this’ and ‘a touch of musical that’ and create a sound
that is uniquely his own – A singular brand of pop tinged jazz that owes as much to
Billy Joel and Paul McCartney as to Professor Longhair and Albert Ammons on hook laden love songs like ‘A Little Bit Of Love.

A night with Michael and his band isn’t the kind of show where you just sit, watch and applaud politely every now and then. Their goal isn’t to intimidate you with the scholarly depth of their music, it’s to entertain, inform and include you – A wild ride with no fixed destination except where he feels he and the crowd want to go.

On stage and on record it’s all about drawing the audience in. That’s where the joy is, pure and simple. And while joy is something Michael Kaeshammer has never had difficulty expressing, on KAESHAMMER, his third record on Alert Music, the German born, Canadian bred pianist expresses it more enthusiastically than ever.