The Krasnogorsk is a Soviet movie camera and a suburb of Moscow, but
Halifax’s Krasnogorsk can be found playing on the number seven bus, in
trees, on the Common or on tall ships. Violinist Jacques Mindreau
interrupted baritone ukulele player Corey Hinchey’s interview with a
potential roommate last fall; he “started playing music with him, and
never left,” Mindreau says.
Playing eastern European, Roma-style music, they’ve been running
well-attended open-mic nights in Hinchey’s home and playing atypical
venues—getting people into a different mindset and “reinvigorating”
them. They’ve played in a bike trailer on a Critical Mass ride and in
the mess hall of a Chilean ship with sailors Mindreau met on the
harbourfront. Hinchey wants to be a “soundtrack for people’s actual
lives.”
They’re heading to Toronto on a bicycle-and-hitchhiking tour this
month and playing the Atlantic Jazz Festival with Gypsophilia in July.
Open mic nights are Mondays at 8pm, 2539 Agricola (beside the NSLC).
This article appears in Jun 11-17, 2009.