For the 41st instalment of the Skin and Bones Music Series, we bring you composer and instrumentalist Rebecca Bruton as well as local songsmith Rachel Mercer!

Rebecca Bruton is an experimental composer, improviser, vocalist, violinist, and guitarist hailing from Calgary, Alberta. She creates work that moves in the narrow space between sorrow and celebration, revealing experiences of sensory and psychological alteredness. Rebecca works across several mediums, including chamber music composition, song making and experimental poetry, film scores, and free improvisation. For this concert Rebecca will perform a solo guitar and voice version of acclaimed Toronto composer Martin Arnold’s chamber work Tam Lin, a 40 minute beautifully introspective reinvention of the legendary Scottish ballad of the same name.

Rachel Mercer is a multifaceted visual, performative, and musical artist, wielding her ukulele with mastery as both a vocalist and songwriter. She has been making music for over a decade, crafting innovative and original compositions with vocal looping, and performing in local Goth country/punk dirge band The Civil Dead. Based in Kelowna, Rachel recently performed at the 2024 New Zealand Fringe Festival in Wellington, where her seamless blend of original music and stand-up comedy made for a one-woman tour de force.

Rebecca Bruton and Rachel Mercer perform at Kelowna Unitarians as part of the Skin And Bones Music Series on May 28th. Doors open at 7:30 pm and the concert will begin at 8:00 pm. Admission at the door is $15 or $10 for students and Alternator members. Advance tickets can be purchased online at Eventbrite.

This concert is made possible through the partnership between the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art and the Inner Fish Theatre Society.