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MUSIC ​1983-1990

1983:
  • Bill Bridges, guitarist from Toronto with Dennis Brown on drums, May 13
  • Greg Dechert, electric piano and synthesizer with Randy Coryell on drums, May 15
  • Those Foolish Things, New Wave Band from Toronto, May 20 and 21
  • Jekyll and Hyde, Music Review, June 9 and 10
  • Country and Western Music, June 16 – 18
  • Ira Brown, New Music Band from Toronto, June 20 and 21
  • Country Outlaws, Country and Western Music, June 21 – June 25
  • Dub Rifles, New Music from Winnipeg, June 27
  • Tight Squeeze, Country and Western Music, July 7 – July 9
  • Country Heirs, Country and Western Music, July 7 – July 9
  • Nuts, Country and Western Music, July 14 – July 16
  • Breeding Ground, New Music, July 23
  • John McCabe & Utah, Country and Western Music, July 27 – July 30
  • Sheep Look Up, September 12 – September 14
  • Gallery, September 15 – September 17
  • Bugs Harvey Oswald, New Music from Ottawa, September 20 – September 21
  • Memory Lane, September 22 – September 24
  • Personal Effects, New Music from New York, September 26 – September 28
  • John McCabe & Utah, Country and Western Music from New Zealand, September 28 – October 1
  • Axent, New Music from Toronto, September 29 – October 1
  • Southern Pride, October 6 – October 8
  • Tyrus, New Music from Toronto, October 13 – October 15
  • Iron Gypsy, New Music From Toronto, October 27 - October 29
  • Dave Howard Singers, New Music from Toronto, October 29
  • Dave Howard Singers, November 5
  • Idiot Savant, Polkaholics and Believers Voice of Victory, December 9
  • Sheep Look Up and Idiot Savant, December 31

1984:
  • Spiral Scratch, Record Releasing Party, March 14
  • Kingdom of the Wild, March 23 – 24
  • The Palace at 4 A.M., Toronto-based sound/music/performance unit with George Higton, Ihor Holubizky and Walter Yarwood, June 9
  • The Bill Smith Ensemble, The Last Red Hot Da Das (an evening of early silent films of the Surrealist and Da Da art filmmakers with minimalist soundtracks produced live in concert), June 13
  • Eric Stach/Eric Brown, Improvisation Music Concert, June 14
  • Planet People, June 15 – June 16
  • Elmo T.V., June 29
  • Elmo T.V., July 28
  • Idiot Savant and Sheep Look Up, December 31
 
1985:
  • Henry Rollins and Idiot Savant, January 7
  • Roy Bailey, January 26
  • Eric Stach, Free Music Unit with Dennis Brown, drums, and Andrea Meyers, guitar, February 8
  • Skeleton Crew, Tom Cora, Fred Firth and Zeena Parkins, October 8
  • Tunnels Under This City, November 21
  • Eric Stach, free-improvisation, November 26 (programmed by FCG)
  • Suffer Machine and Excitement of Searching, December 14
 
1986:
  • Sheep Look Up and Map Turtle, January 31
  • Spiral Scratch and Excitement of Searching, May 10
  • Lubatunes and Luddites, June 7
 
1987:
  • Spiral Scratch and Lifeless Currents, October 5
 
1988:

  • N/A
 
1989:

  • N/A
 
1990:
  • Lillian Allen and the Revolutionary Tea Party, September 
  • Eric Stach, Free Music Unit, with Rob Bell, drums, and David Lee, bass, January 11 (This began a series of Thursday night improvisational sessions that continued for several years.) 


EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS 
 
Jamelie Hassan 
& Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & 
Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA 
Tariq Hassan Gordon, Ira Kazi, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi,  JoAnna Weil 

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Blessy Augustine, Shelley Kopp, 
Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, ​Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil & Michelle Wilson. 

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OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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E M B A S S Y  C U L T U R A L  H O U S E . C A

​London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.

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