Circuit is a network of improvised music presenters across the country, connecting the continually growing network of improvising musicians and presenters. visit the Cicuit website for more details.

‘circuit’ is a curated grassroots music performance network that began it’s operations in 2009 and has now encompassed nine presenters and venues in nine cities: Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa, Toronto, Kingston, Ville de Québec , Rimouski, Montréal, Fredericton and Halifax . We are constantly networking with other centres in Canada and anticipate the network adding more participants.

The existence of community based (artist-run) spaces across Canada was something that was pretty standard in terms of new creative music for decades but had previously not had a dedicated network in place.

The need for this particular organisation stemmed from the fact that the major f festivals/presenters in Canada are less and less interested in booking new and creative Canadian music. The advent of internet based collectivity has given us the tools to make something happen on an indie basis where Canadian improvising musicians can apply to tour this network and take advantage of the contracts, promotional and organisational support provided by this network.

This network not only provides an excellent opportunity for grassroots interaction between musicians and ensembles on a cross country basis but provides access to the public on a grassroots basis itself. This is accomplished by, not only traditional forms of advertising in media outlets in each city but also through the extensive internet networks built by the musician activists in each centre in the course of their own outreach.

‘circuit’ prides itself as being the only network consistently presenting improvised music and i mprovising musicians from canada, in the world.