How one composer spent four decades forging a distinctly Québécois path through the experimental music landscape When Joane Hétu picks...
“One of the most unforgettable moments of the Festival was the electrifying performance by Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue” The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal...
Luminato at Harbourfront – June 15, 2025 Somd’agua: A Dance Migration Performance A mesmerizing collaboration featuring Esie Mensah, Alex Oliver, Reimundo Sosa Reinoldes, and Adrianna Yanuziello,...
Toronto drummer navigates economic pressures and streaming exploitation while building sustainable artistic communities When Stefan Hegerat talks about his hometown music scene, love and frustration compete...
On January 27, 2025, marking the 80th anniversary of the Auschwitz-Birkenau liberation, Canadian saxophonist and composer Daniel Pelton released a musical work connecting history, memory, and...
After stepping away from music for nearly two decades, Miller found her way back through solitary walks and careful listening to her coastal surroundings, crafting compositions...
Stylistically, one sometimes feels that Diana Panton follows in the long shadow of Blossom Dearie, bracing an essential serenity albeit – and this has never been...
On the 10th of August 2024 I read a post on Facebook from Rio Henry noting that John Kelman a.k.a. Dave Binder, her husband had passed...
Wilsikin ‘Rafael Energía’ Medina Arias does not simply appear on the soundstage for his performance. He descends upon it like a bolt of lightning, igniting his...
The celebrated Orson Wells, US radio and film actor, director and celebrated loud-mouth with a wonderful baritone voice once, facetiously [and infamously] suggested that the only...