The Lunchbox: Improvisational Music with Sarah Beth Shiplett

There’s “making stuff up as you go”, and then there is improvisation…

The first doesn’t take talent, necessarily, and the results are often just random; the latter, however, can take a lot of talent and practice to make something so spontaneously beautiful..

My guest today is Sarah Beth Shiplett of Music UNB and Music on the Hill. She’s here to talk about the free noon-time concert on February 4 at Memorial Hall, entitled Improvisational Guitar with Joel Leblanc. Joel Leblanc is well-known for doing lots of improvisational music, so this is a must-see event. Sarah and I talked about the nature of the frame of this concert, what improvisation can me, and how it is construction on a whole new level.

Music today isn’t improvisation, necessarily, but has much the same energy:

Monomyth bring us Medicine Man, from their Saturnalia Regalia! album;
And from their self-titled album, we hear The Auras with Love Just Spirals On.