Sbot N Wo is Helen Pridmore and WL Altman.  The voice/electronics improvisation duo was formed at the Banff Centre for the Arts some years ago.  Since then the duo has toured and performed across Canada, including shows with Black Ice Sound (Yellowknife), Suddenly Listen (Halifax), Thunder and Lightning (Sackville NB), RE:FLUX Festival de musique et d’art sonore (Moncton), Montréal, Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Regina, Sounds Like (Saskatoon), and 8East (Vancouver). They have also performed in the USA, Germany, the UK, Ireland, and Japan.  In pandemic times, Sbot N Wo contributed to numerous online performances, including the annual online ImprovFest and the Regina Dunlop Library’s “Every Possible Place” nationwide jam in 2021, as well as Sappyfest Online’s “Infinite Variety”.

They will be performing “We Are Sitting In A Room” (revisiting Alvin Lucier’s “I am Sitting in a Room”-1969) in the Mount Allison Library on Saturday, 11am - 3pm.

Guest Appearance Schedule (with spontaneous appearances and reappearances):

James Goddard (Skin Tone): 11:30

Jackson Darby: 12 noon

Evan Matthews: 12:30

Michael Feuerstack: 1:00

David Gregory (of The Gregories): 1:30

Ariel Sharratt / Mathias Kom (of The Burning Hell) / Shotgun Jimmie: 2:00

Will Kidman / Colleen Coco Collins: 2:15

Photo by John Haney