Tom Walsh

Tom Walsh is among Canada’s state-of-the-art musicians. Classically educated on trombone, Walsh provides consistently sought brand-new strategies for his imagination. Furthermore to writing the Walsh/Underhill Duo, with Richard Underhill from the Shuffle Demons, he proceeds to perform using the Polka Canines, the Hemispheres Orchestra, and Pots & Pans, which he details as “cabaret pit orchestra of your brain.” He also performs frequently with Swifty Lazarus, a efficiency poetry duo that he shaped with poet/publisher Todd Swift. His compositions have already been commissioned by mezzo-soprano Kimberly Barber, percussionist Geordie McDonald, and contemporary dance troupes. His functions have been highlighted in films, movies, multimedia system presentations and a theatrical creation by playwright/manufacturer Daniel MacIvor. The main trombonist for the Newfoundland Symphony, as an adolescent, Walsh still left the group at age 19. He eventually worked being a program participant for such Canadian avant-garde and intensifying rock performers as Lisle Ellis, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Robert Lepage, the Cowboy Junkies, the Barenaked Girls and Bran Truck 3000. Walsh in addition has performed and/or documented with Julius Hemphill, Don Preston, Bern Nix, and Evan Lurie. Walsh offered as music movie director at Montreal nightclub, DiSalvio, for just two years, producing displays and periodically showing up with his music group Royal Jelly.