Minden & Hallett perform in diverse smaller venues including art studios and churches, major festivals and universities. Their concerts explore an intimate acoustic space featuring natural sounds and storytelling.
Minden and Hallett often work with the smallest of sounds – the clink of miniature liquor bottles, the twang of rubber bands, the rustle of dried peas – … Rather than shrieking its message at a sustained pitch – the tactic of demagogues and advertisers – the Minden Duo gently asks the listener to really listen, as part of a communal act of creation that returns some of the wholeness of ritual to the concert or CD experience.
Alex Varty – The Georgia Straight
- House Concert, Bonny Doon, California 1998
- Darren Waterston’s Art Studio, Denman Island Arts & Crafts Society, Denman Island, BC 1998
- House Concert, Wychwood Park, Toronto, ON 1999
- Music Gallery, Toronto, ON 1999
- Open Space, “Whisper,” Victoria, BC 1999
- Orff Conference, Vancouver, BC 2000
- St. Mark’s Church, Vancouver Sun Concert Series, Vancouver, BC 2000
- Creekside Theatre, Winfield, BC 2000
- Salmo Arts Centre, Salmo,BC 2000
- Silverton Gallery, Silverton, BC 2000
- Bonnington Arts Centre, Nakusp, BC 2000
- Rasputin’s Folk Cafe, Ottawa, ON 2001
- Spriet Theatre, Forest City Gallery, London, ON 2002
- Speehless Performance Venue, Niagara Artists Company, St. Catherines, ON 2002
- Dawson City Music Festival, Dawson City, Yukon 2003
- Salmon Arm Music Festival, Salmon Arm, BC 2003
- Jasper United Church, Jasper Folk Society, Jasper, Alta 2003
- Victoria School for Performing & Visual Arts Theatre, Edmonton, Alta 2003
- Red Deer College, Red Deer, Alta 2003
- Bert Church Theatre, Airdrie, Alta, 2003
- Bragg Creek Community Centre, Bragg Creek, Alta 2003
- Denman Island Community Hall, Concerts Denman, Denman Is. BC 2004
- Unitarian Church of Vancouver, Vancouver, BC 2004
- Hot Clay Exhibition Opening, compositions for terra cotta clay, Surrey Arts Centre, Surrey, BC 2004
- The Song Room, Vancouver, BC 2006
- Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival, Denman Island, BC 2007
- Soundaxis Festival, “Acoustic Gambol,” Music Gallery, Toronto, ON 2008
- Vancouver International Writers Festival, “Like Light Off Water,” Vancouver, BC 2008
- Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC 2008
- Poetry Gabriola, Gabriola Is. BC, 2008
- Open Space Voice++ Festival , Victoria BC 2009
- Richmond Cultural Centre, Richmond, BC 2009
- Carlton University, Ottawa, ON 2009
- Brock University/Niagara Artists Company, St. Catherines, ON 2009
- Western University, London, ON 2009
- University of Toronto, Scarborough, Scarborough, ON 2009
- McMaster University, Hamilton ,ON 2009
- Trent University, Peterborough, ON 2009
- “Rare Finds”, fundraising concert, Rare Disease Foundation, Vancouver, BC 2011
- Secret Tree Festival for the Arts and Sustainability, “Songs & Silence,” Denman Is, BC 2011
- Musideum, Toronto, ON 2014
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Music Mondays, Toronto, ON 2014
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