Music at Noon Concert Program, October 3, 2024

Aug. 21, 2024

Thursday October 3, 2024, 12 p.m.
Maureen Forrester Recital Hall

Performers

Keenan Reimer-Watts, piano

Program

for Keith Jarrett by Keenan Reimer-Watts

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Biography

Keenan Reimer-Watts (b. 1992) is a human being who has, over the last decade, used a variety of mediums to express his growing concern for the state of the earth today. A graduate of WLU (2014), he has since performed in a variety of venues, playing many different genres, on a number of different instruments. His favorite instruments are piano, guitar, fiddle, tamboa, and kalimba. He is most recently smitten by the charm of the chromatic harmonica, or Chromonica. He has written hundreds of pages of music for many different ensembles and self-published dozens of albums of all sorts of music. His current dream is to finish his Biodiversity Buggy and become a nomadic touring musician with a ware of seeds in tow, a sort of "Keenan's Ark" of seeds, this is because he has become especially concerned that global insect populations are in sharp decline and thinks this may be a fun way to draw attention to how existentially threatening it is to be losing the foundation of the food chain. As a result, he is encouraging people to stop mowing their lawn and tune in once more to the steadily-quieting sound of the natural world before she in turn quiets us in retribution.

Land Acknowledgement

We would like to acknowledge that Wilfrid Laurier University and its campuses are located on the shared traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnaabe (Anish-nah-bay) and Haudenosaunee (Hoe-den-no-show-nee) peoples. This land is part of the Dish with One Spoon Treaty between the Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabe peoples and symbolizes the agreement to share, protect our resources and not to engage in conflict. From the Haldimand Proclamation of Oct. 25, 1784 this territory is described as: “six miles deep from each side of the river (Grand River) beginning at Lake Erie and extending in the proportion to the Head of said river, which them and their posterity are to enjoy forever.” The proclamation was signed by the British wit​h their allies, the Six Nations, after the American Revolution. Despite being the largest reserve demographically in Canada, those nations now reside on less than five percent of this original territory.