"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 9/23/24)
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Real Live Certified
Artists are Real Live Certified if their live shows have broad critical acclaim
Critic Consensus
Colin Stetson is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 1% of all live performers. Based on 30 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Colin Stetson is rated as an amazing live performer, with exceptional shows that are worth watching. Colin Stetson concert reviews describe live shows and performances as emotive, noisy, eye-popping, entrancing, minimalist, and otherworldly.
Colin Stetson was born and raised in Ann Arbor, MI and earned a degree in music from his hometown school, the University of Michigan, in 1997. Six years in San Francisco followed, then another four in Brooklyn, NY.
Has Performed With
Sarah Neufeld
Critic Concert Reviews
Exclaim (Canada)
July 1, 2023
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Colin Stetson Tested the Limits in Ottawa Ottawa Jazz Festival, June 30
The Attenborough Centre, on the fringe of the Sussex Uni’s Falmer campus, is certainly carving a slot for itself on the city’s contemporary music scene. Filling the void for a much-needed mid-size venue, a step up from the quirky cosiness of the wonderful Rose Hill
Virtuoso woodwind and brass player Colin Stetson delivers an entrancing set tonight as part of the Dark Matter series – slogan: Destroy your Boundaries – during the Manchester International Festival
In solo performance, Colin Stetson, a saxophonist who's worked with Tom Waits, Arcade Fire and Bon Iver, seems on paper to have more in common with musicians such as British free jazz improviser Evan Parker than with dance music.
With a physical build somewhere between that of a yogi and a cage fighter the American multireedist has built a solo career on eye-poppingly punishing performances.
As was the case with set-opener The Sun Roars Into View, the pairing of Stetson's pulsing, otherworldly saxophone sounds — rhythm, melody and texture, all in one — with Neufeld's softer violin overtop created a fulsome spectrum, shifting between ugliness and beauty depending on the piece's need.
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