David Woodhead
With Fujiwara Dance: Moving Parts
Immersed in the world of independent music-making from the start, David Woodhead has contributed to some 350 recording projects and worked with many influential artists including Perth County Conspiracy, Stan Rogers, Oliver Schroer, Gil Scott- Heron, and David Sanborn. His live gigs have included extensive work with Malagasy guitarist Donné Roberts (a recent Juno nominee), classical-folk fusioneers Ensemble Polaris and veteran jazzers Manteca, as well as touring internationally with master songwriter James Keelaghan and working with his own rambunctious and playful Confabulation ensemble.
His ongoing residency at the Tranzac Club in Toronto, Precious Little, features a different short term ensemble each iteration, with compositions and improvisation direction encouraged from all the participants. Recently he has worked with Fujiwara Dance Inventions on several mountings of their “Moving Parts” presentation, and has been a regular contributor to the Balfolk European folk dance events.
David has done instruction at the Folk Alliance International conference (Kansas City), Haliburton Winter Folk Camp, the Goderich Celtic College and Ontario’s The Woods. He’s produced numerous recording projects, been an invited guest improvisor at Arraymusic and Casey Sokol’s improv soirées at York University, and done a Music Residency at the Banff Centre, working on music which led to his most recent CD, Tunnels and Visions.