Zombie Blizzard has won the East Coast Music Awards’ Jazz Release of the Year in 2025. Commissioned by Hannaford Street Silver Band, Zombie Blizzard includes recitations by Margaret Atwood and songs composed by Aaron Davis on the texts of 7 poems from the 2020 publication Dearly: Zombie, Blizzard, Health Class, Princess Clothing, Shadow, Digging up the Scythians, and Dearly. The album was also
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In 2021 HSSB Artistic Director David Pell and Canadian Diva Measha Brueggergosman-Lee set out to commission a musically innovative new song-cycle for soprano, brass ensemble, and rhythm section that would shine a light on contemporary and perennial gender issues. A tall order, but Measha’s friendship with Margaret Atwood provided the text in the form of new poems and Toronto’s great film composer and jazz pianist Aaron Davis came on board to
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