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What makes a play recognizably Canadian? A Canadian setting? A Canadian subject? Is it that indefinable 'quirkiness' that so many foreign critics mention? I myself have a firm confidence that [...]

Canadian artists continue to interpret our greatest interpreter IT'S EIGHTEEN YEARS AND COUNTING SINCE GLENN GOULD DIED, AT THE AGE OF FIFTY, FROM A STROKE THAT HALTED FOREVER THE PROCESSES [...]

THIS YEAR 2000, WHICH IS BEING CELEBRATED AS A MILESTONE AROUND THE WORLD, IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT TO Canada's National Youth Orchestra, for whom it represents a special anniversary. It was [...]

'DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW WHEAT GOES?' That was the question that pulled me out of the ranks of the onlookers and into the cadre of creative artists at Public Dreams [...]

YOU WOULD HARDLY THINK IT OF A MUSICAL PROFESSION THAT INVOLVES PERFORMING FOR THOUSANDS OF LISTENERS AT A TIME, BUT THE CAREER OF A CARILLONEUR is a lonely calling. Solitary [...]

A TRULY MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTISTIC PROJECT IS A RARE THING; ONE WHOSE CONTRIBUTORS ARE ALL WOMEN IS EVEN RARER. NONETHELESS, OVER THE COURSE OF THE PAST YEAR Toronto-based Mooredale Concerts, under [...]

Mose Scarlett 'Precious Seconds' Borealis BCD146. Wielding a voice that soothes the spirit like a warm cup of coffee going down, Mose Scarlett croons through fifteen great old songs, infusing [...]

Carlos Placeres 'A los Ancestros' Analekta AN 2 9807. With a profound awarness of his many cultural forebears -- Spanish, Yoruba, American and more -- Montreal-based Cuban jazz musician Carlos [...]

The members of Matapat (Benoit Bourque, Gaston Bernard and Simon Lepage) arrange and perform the folk music of New France. The songs and instrumentals come from all over French Canada [...]

Peterborough's prolific folksters Joe Grant, Al Parrish, Bob Ritchie, Steve Ritchie and Terry Young, better known as Tanglefoot, have released a new recording that features their now familiar blend of [...]

Recorded at a November 2001 concert at Toronto's Grace Church-on-the-Hill, Tafelmusik's newest release is Baroque for Dummies, performed by musicians who are anything but. Toronto's masters of period Baroque performance [...]

7 75020 14962 5 Columbian native and Toronto resident Diego Marulande has taken a step sideways from his already established reputation as lead man with the Afro-Latin group Pacande. His [...]

(www.sambasquad.com) The Brazilian samba band, like a symphony orchestra or a jazz combo, unites distinctive voices into an exciting whole. Toronto's two-year-old Samba Squad, ubiquitous at the city's best street [...]