Joyride Concerts

“The audience was enthralled and dizzy with these supermen of music!” (Eden Mills Music Club audience member)

Colin Maier (oboe, saw, vocals, from Quartetto Gelato) & Mark Camilleri (pianist and music director for The Tenors) are “Joyride”, an all-out “music party” where they play their favorites based in Latin jazz, pop jazz, ragtime, klezmer and bebop, as well as Celtic, folk and tango.  These two players can go out on a limb improvising and composing on the spot, taking the audience along with them on their musical adventures. JoyRide has performed far and wide: in Toronto, Cornwall, Deep River and Ancaster, and at the First Ontario Performing Arts Centre, the Collingwood Festival, the Lowville Festival, the Westdale Theatre in Hamilton, the Burlington Performing Arts Centre, and at the State University of New York at Fredonia.  JoyRide’s recently released self-named CD has received radio play on jazz stations around the world, with reviews coming in from as far away as Spain, Denmark, the UK, and all across North America.  The New York Music Daily says “Ridiculous, virtuosic, outside-the-box fun from JoyRide… It takes a lot of nerve to make music as amusing as JoyRide’s.”