Hello friends,
Happy September! After a busy summer, we’re absolutely thrilled to present Michael Cloud Duguay’s critically-acclaimed “Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go” at Gallery 78 on September 23rd.
@michaelcloudduguay’s project Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go explores the organ through a lens of community, heritage, and preservation. Interpretations of the album material will be reproduced on digital midi organ instruments developed by engineer Jake Nicoll, who painstakingly recorded samples of seven organs from across Newfoundland, precisely replicating the sound of those heard on the album. Duguay will be joined by musicians Andrew MacKelvie (Many Worlds, New Hermitage, Scions) Dave Grenon (Joyful Joyful, Scions), and Markus Lake (Markus Floats, Egyptian Cotton Arkestra).
The evening will also feature a set by special guest, Juno-nominated artist @markus.floats ☁️
Date: Wednesday, September 23rd
Doors 7:00 | Show: 7:30PM
Location: Gallery 78 - 796 Queen St, Fredericton
Tickets: $15 or Pay What You Can
Advance tickets: https://buytickets.at/piumusicandsound/2365336
Featuring special guest Markus Floats
ABOUT KINGDOM COME, KINGDOM GO
In June, 2024, Canadian composer Michael Cloud Duguay and collaborators travelled over 1,500km across Newfoundland in a self-built, solar-powered mobile studio, recording seven historic church organs in seven remote communities, resulting in one of the most unique and imaginative albums ever produced in Canada.
At each stop, the ensemble encountered remarkably different organs with unusual histories. Some were acoustic, hand-cranked instruments while others relied on foot pedals to generate sound. Some were recently updated and featured digital keyboards and amplifiers. One had not been tuned in 120 years; another was buried beneath a pile of rubble in the upper gallery of a decommissioned Catholic church.
While the foundation for the project’s material began with compositions and improvisational experiments, the team’s collective interest in field recording, spontaneous composition, and responding to their environments shaped the work and enhanced its development. Duguay conducted a series of interviews with church wardens, reverends, congregants, and community members at each location. These interviews explored, from a secular perspective, the history of the churches and foregrounded the progressive vanishing of these instruments as churches are shuttered while congregations decrease.
Released on Duguay’s own Watch That Ends The Night Records in July 2026, the album received instantaneous and universal critical acclaim, with journalists praising the quiet depth of his field-recording methodology and unqique storytelling abilities, his incorporation of physical locations within his arrangements, and the intimacy and poeticism with which he and his collaborators rendered genuine beauty from raw, weathered sources. Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go has been identified as a generational work, and a rare example of an experimental, creative music project breaking through to the mainstream culture and capturing the popular imagination.
Listen below:
Big thanks to all the folks who came out to Charles Harding’s performance “Hum” at the end of June. It was a sell out show (thank you!) — what a fantastic way to close out the season! Thank you to the Charlotte Street Arts Centre for hosting the event, and to Charles for all his work in setting up & presenting the immersive 8-channel performance; it’s a special experience to listen deeply amongst others. Here are a couple snaps from the event!
