Genres World Website kitehill.ca Genre World music | Years active 2008–present Origin Toronto, Canada | |
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter, singer Associated acts Water Colour, Alight, We're Marching On, Ohbijou, Timber Timbre, Forest City Lovers, Friends in Bellwoods Members Ryan Carley
Anissa Hart
Steve Lappano
Mika Posen
Tyler Belluz Similar Mika Posen, Forest City Lovers, Ohbijou, Casey Mecija, Gentleman Reg | ||
Kite Hill is a Canadian drum, wind, and string troupe formed in January 2008 in Toronto. They combine elements of baroque pop, instrumental and world music.
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The band released a single, "Tom Thumbtack," on the Friends in Bellwoods II compilation in August 2009. They are set to release their debut album, Rest & Run in spring 2011. Rest & Run is an exploration of potential and action that forms the first part of the series, "The Wild, Wild World of Wood, Wind and String."
Current members
Performances and tours
In August 2009 Kite Hill curated the inaugural edition of Inroads Festival. Inroads Festival focuses on bringing new music to rural communities in Ontario and consists of a "troupe of emerging artists from Toronto" who travel from location to location "in hopes of connecting deeply with the landscape, its people, and their stories." According to the festival's website, the musicians and composers immerse themselves in the community, chairing "story-sharing and song-writing sessions", as well as performing a concert with and for the community. The finale of each concert is the song that was written during the day. In addition to the members of Kite Hill, participants in the festival included The Youngest (Amy Learmonth), Les Arbres (Timothy Fagan), and Casey Mecija of Ohbijou.
Tantramar
The advent of the band centred on the Rural Landscape of Nassagaweya Township in Ontario, specifically the farm where Carley grew up. It was named "Tantramar" in 1978 in the spirit of the Acadian marsh located in Sackville, New Brunswick, and lovingly described in Sir G. D. Roberts' Poem, "Tantramar Revisited". Sir Charles's widow lived at Tantramar for a while, with her menagerie of animals. The word Tantramar is derived from the Acadian French tintamarre, literally meaning "a great noise", in reference to the waterfowl which rested in the marsh in the spring and fall. Tantramar farm is also visited by wild birds in the transitional seasons, including red-wing blackbirds, ducks, blue herons, and Canadian geese. The land which rises to the north of the marsh at Tantramar has for 30 years been known as "Kite Hill" and serves as the namesake of the band.