Members
Jesse Zubot plays fiddle and mandolin as well as electric mandolin in Zubot and Dawson. Jesse's first album based on improvisation is entitled Dementia and was released in the fall of 2006. The CD plays with the concepts of solo-improvised violin, micro-mandolin orchestras and minimal electronic-influenced sound design.
Steve Dawson plays acoustic, tremolo acoustic, National tricone and Weissenborn Hawaiian guitars, the later, which is a hollow-necked lap steel instrument. Currently Steve Dawson is working on two albums Waiting For The Lights To Come Up and Telescope both of which are due out in 2008. Telescope is a fully instrumental CD, which centres on the pedal steel guitar. This project started as Steve received a grant from the Canada Council For The Arts to study the pedal steel guitar with Greg Leisz. Steve Dawson was nominated for a 2007 Juno for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year in the Solo category for We Belong To The Gold Coast.
While the group started as a duo other players were added over the years. Andrew Downing joined Zubot and Dawson as a double bass player. Elliot Polsky joined the group as percussion player. The group also occasionally features musical friends such as Bob Brozman and Kelly Joe Phelps.
Both Steve Dawson and Jesse Zubot also participate in the project Great Uncles of the Revolution. The group’s music is hard to categorize, as it is a mix between jazz, roots, classical, and gypsy music . Great Uncles of the Revolution won the 2004 Juno for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year for their album Blow the House Down.
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