Colin Stetson live in concert.
ON TOUR

Colin Stetson

30
critic concert reviews
experimental

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

90
%
Based on 
30
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
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Based on 
critic concert
reviews

Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

Critic Consensus

Colin Stetson is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 1% of all live performers. Based on 30 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Colin Stetson is rated as an amazing live performer, with exceptional shows that are worth watching. Colin Stetson concert reviews describe live shows and performances as emotive, noisy, eye-popping, entrancing, minimalist, and otherworldly.

ON TOUR

Green-Wood Cemetery; Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, United States; Brooklyn, United States (May 10; May 10); The Axis Club, Toronto, Canada (May 16); Various Venues, Montreal, Canada (August 20);

Latest Release

When we were that what wept for the sea (May 12, 2023)

Artist Info

Genre
experimental
Origin
Ann Arbor, United States (1977) (1977)
Bio
Colin Stetson was born and raised in Ann Arbor, MI and earned a degree in music from his hometown school, the University of Michigan, in 1997. Six years in San Francisco followed, then another four in Brooklyn, NY.
Has Performed With
Sarah Neufeld

Critic Concert Reviews

Exclaim (Canada)

July 1, 2023
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Colin Stetson Tested the Limits in Ottawa Ottawa Jazz Festival, June 30

Brighton Source (UK)

May 4, 2023
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The Attenborough Centre, on the fringe of the Sussex Uni’s Falmer campus, is certainly carving a slot for itself on the city’s contemporary music scene. Filling the void for a much-needed mid-size venue, a step up from the quirky cosiness of the wonderful Rose Hill

God Is In The TV Zine (UK)

May 3, 2023
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Colin Stetson – Howard Assembly Room, Leeds, 02/05/2023 in the UK

Louder Than War (UK)

October 30, 2019
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In their native wilds, African elephants can communicate with others across a distance of around six miles using subsonic rumbles detected through the soles of their feet.

Undertoner (Denmark)

November 15, 2018
92
%
Alice, Copenhagen, Denmark on November 14, 2018

The Skinny (UK)

July 21, 2017
100
%
Virtuoso woodwind and brass player Colin Stetson delivers an entrancing set tonight as part of the Dark Matter series – slogan: Destroy your Boundaries – during the Manchester International Festival

Manchester Evening News (UK)

July 17, 2017
100
%
In solo performance, Colin Stetson, a saxophonist who's worked with Tom Waits, Arcade Fire and Bon Iver, seems on paper to have more in common with musicians such as British free jazz improviser Evan Parker than with dance music.

Past critic reviews published in

GIGsoup (UK), Manchester Evening News (UK), The Independent (UK), SoundsXP (UK), Record Collector Magazine (UK) and more

Image Credit

Michael Hoefner [CC BY-SA 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons