Mike Essoudry's Mash Potato Mashers Hooray!

by Todd Snelgrove

Mike Essoudry's Mash Potato Mashers

The first sound you'll hear on the the new Mike Essoudry's Mash Potato Mashers cd is a bombastic percussive oomph before launching immediately into a gleeful melee of twisted klezmer that tromps through time signatures like they weren't even there.

It's a fitting opening to an incessantly fun album rife with tight playing and intricate arrangements. Hooray! is the second offering from the Mash Potato Mashers, a small army of Ottawa's finest players at the helm of musical mad scientist Mike Essoudry.

One of the capital's finest and most prolific jazz drummers, Essoudry devised MEMPM in 2010 as an eclectic all-original marching band and immediately set to writing music. Armed with an unnatural sense of harmony and a talented group of players he quickly released their self-titled debut album and started booking the nonet into festivals far and wide.

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10th ANNIVERSARY TORONTO DOWNTOWN RECORD SHOW

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Event will showcase Valuable and New Memorabilia and Releases from Canada’s biggest collectors

Sunday March 27th

Estonian Banquet Hall
958 Broadview Ave. (2 blocks north of the Broadview Subway station)
Doors: 11:00AM-4:00PM
Admission: $5.00

http://www.therecordguys.com

Just as The 40th Annual Juno Awards will have wrapped up, the Toronto Downtown Record Show begins with Canada’s biggest music collectable and memorabilia event, featuring over 50 of the most influential and popular sellers in Canada.

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