Back at it. Feels awesome

More to come in Early 2018... xo

 

 

December finds us with new motion. Our band released a new ice dance music video, shot last year in Montreal. We ultimately brought "I'm Comin' Over"; a whimsical, if not melancholic dance film, into the world on it's first birthday. In this film we attempted to marry a theatrical sensibility to a love affair with ice dancing.

 "I'm Comin' Over" 

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Credits:  
Featuring Ice Dancers: Todd Gilles and Jane Summersett  
Music: Summersett Band  
Director: ODL  
Choreographer/Writer: Jane and Patricia Summersett  
Producer: Patricia Summersett and Nick Carpenter  
1st AC: Julie Palnychenko  
MUA: Tammy-Lou Pate  
PA: Maegan Ohmes 
French Translation of song (Si j'peux arriver): Manon St. Jules 
Song: 
Bass: Pierre Gaudreault 
Drums: Jean Philippe Godbout 
Cello: Sheila Hannigan 
Violin: Ariane Gruet- Pelchat 
Piano/Composition: Nick Carpenter 
Vocals: Patricia Summersett 
Vocals: Eric Davis 
Co-Producer: Don Murnaghan 

**Special Thanks to Shawn and James at www.evolutionglace.com 

'I'm Comin Over' is from the album 'Act One' 

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Stay Tuned. Up next SUMMERSETT BAND will be working on an acapella version of a new song Montreal River. We will be filming and releasing it in the next couple months. Happy Holidays.

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In May we took a little road trip to Toronto to play CMW. We had a lovely venue (C'est What) and a nice turnout amidst the incredible wave of music inundating the city. Shortly after, we were back in Montreal recording a new single "Montreal River"
Working with Tim Gowdy at Studio 270 was a fantastic. Having recorded our first full length album a year ago, this new recording felt a digestible undertaking. Felt good. Contrary to it's name, Montreal River is not about Montreal. There is a little river, creating a tiny paper cut in the very tip of Upper Michigan's famous upper thumb of the upper hand (famous to Yoopers anyway). This song is about that place, and holds some similar imagery to our song Grand Superior. We are seven strong on the recording. And now it's in the pot, mixing... 
More updates to come this summer- with gigs and the late summer/early fall release of our music video and single.

 

 

 

December was crazy...and great. We had this vision of doing a dance video (on-ice) for I'm Comin' Over. We love that song. It deserves a video. So we came up with a kind of Amelie meets Funny Face meets mime meets ice mythology... meets ridiculously low-budget. Patricia tends to have a fascination with ice in all forms, but she also has an incredibly skilled ice dancing sister Jane Summersett (Team USA). Jane came onboard with her former ice dance partner Todd Gilles and director O.D.L.
The video is currently in post and we are now planning a December 2016 reveal, to celebrate the holidays. It's ambitious, a little crazy, a little dark like the song, and quite beautiful. I think we will love it, I hope you do too...






 

So last Fall we were asked to headline this David Bowie tribute as part of the WildSide Theatre Festival 2016 at Centaur theatre. Bowie was the festival "artist of the year" with a new album release, Broadway play and a coinciding birthday. It was a great joy to prep and we were super excited. Then we mourned with the world in utter shock days before the scheduled event. Needless to say the event happened anyway and it was a different kind of special. There were many beautiful tribute nights, this was one of them. We were joined by musicians like Corinna Rose and Christian Norton. And theatre artists Johanna Nutter (curator), Elena Belyea, artists from La Licorne and the fabulous Holly Gaulthier-Frankel. Patricia was performing theatre in Toronto and made a 24hr crazy trip to do this event in Montreal between shows. Certainly no regrets...

And then how's about a Bowie onesie...eh?  How often can that happen.?

We played O Patro Vys at Pop Mtl.

Here's a write-up of our concert by Mégane Delorme at Art Montreal: http://blog.artmtl.com/?p=887

Great night with Cade, The Vasts, The Folk and Holy Data. Highlight of evening was chatting with The Folk, the kind of group you wanna share an evening with- on and offstage. Check out their new record. Gorgeous vinyl. https://www.facebook.com/TheFolkFolk​  

Aside from other fab things at POP the Symposiums and the F2F etc were brilliant and we took advantage this year. 
 

"Big Sneeze" on the big screen. Just as enjoyable was the depth of talent and quality in the film fest as a whole. It's a growing film fest and they really nailed it this year.

Join us! 

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The 6th annual NDG Off The Wall / Hors Les Murs event is a curated program that brings together the best of NDG's media talent for a night of short films projected under the stars in Girouard Park on August 28th 2015 at 8PM!

La 6ième édition annuelle du NDG Off The Wall / Hors Les Murs est un événement qui rassemble les meilleurs talents de NDG l'instant d'un soir de projection de courts-métrages sous les étoiles du parc Girouard le 28 août 2015 at 20h00!

NDG Off The Wall - Hors Les Murs 2015
Parc Girouard, coin Sherbrooke et Marcil
28.08.2015
20h00

Summersett was shortlisted for their live show on June 14th at Parc Des Ameriques. Merci Greenland Productions! We're in good company.

24hr/ Montreal Journal "Featured Favourite" by Anne Lovely- June 14th, 2015. 
Merci Anne!