LIVELab Presents Coszmos Quartette

Get ready for a memorable evening as CQ (Coszmos Quartette) unveils their latest album, Eternal Dawn, at the renowned McMaster LIVELab! Known for their captivating live performances, CQ will take listeners on a journey exploring themes of love, nature, and human connection. These songs are an act of love. They are a gift for those tired of irony and cynicism.

Fronted by local luminary Bradley Germain (vocals/guitar), and featuring McMaster alumni Kate Quigley (piano/flute/vocals), Joel Banks (double bass), and Sara Froese (violin/vocals) along with Gareth Inkster (violin) and Noel Webb (drums) their harmonies and delicate arrangements take on vulnerability like it is a torch leading the way. Don’t miss your chance to witness this extraordinary performance in an intimate setting!

Yet embracing the now is also to embrace its loss, to embrace just how fleeting our moments are. These songs pull us in, and then they end. Sweet voices swell and fade. Strings are plucked and they resolve. As our singer sings, blink and you’ll be gone, and then it’s over. This is a gift. Without that gift time would lose its value. If life wasn’t finite, time would simply wash over us, endlessly, because nothing would be at stake, nothing would matter, nothing would be urgent.
There would be no need to share these songs.
There would be no need to be present and listen.

I heard a wise woman say, if you want to see the Creator’s face, go into the natural world. This knowledge abounds in these songs. We are told to take our cues from clouds, from the movement of the sun, from the flight of birds. We are invited to pause and celebrate purple flowers on golden mornings. But be assured, this isn’t weakness or escape. It is strength. There is no fear in these songs. Their simplicity and directness declares their confidence, their knowing. They don’t need to overwhelm or impress with flash and virtuosity. Their harmonies and delicate arrangements take on vulnerability like it is a torch leading the way. To what? To love of course. If the now is all we have, what gives real meaning, real value, is love: Take some time to look around because there is so much to love. But this is only a seemingly naïve sentiment because, as the singer assures us, love is only easy, if you try.
Love is a discipline, a practice. Love is never passive.
And be assured, these songs are love in action.

Modified excerpt from Andrew Johnson, January, 2022.

$32 General Admission
$16 Student Admission
Doors open at 7:30 pm
This event will be livestreamed and video recorded.

Learn more and register here

This concert is generously supported by incite Foundation for the Arts, Marsales Real Estate and Long and McQuade Musical Instruments

The McMaster LIVELab is located within the Psychology Building on the main campus.