MONCTON, N.B. • About 15 years ago, Ken MacLeod's oldest daughter Erica had auditioned for a spot with the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra (NBYO) and had made the grade. MacLeod was a supportive father, even though he had no musical background. But that audition has turned
The Sturdy family is one to which we normally wouldn’t give a second thought. Sure, the teenage son Joey has a disability and spends his days in a wheelchair. His slurred speech is difficult for an outsider to decipher, although the quick intelligence in his eyes
MONCTON, N.B. • For a young boy in Brandon, Manitoba, with dreams about a career as a solo violinist, moments learning from professional performers were worth their weight in gold dust. It was that mentoring that James Ehnes got in his home prairie city about an hour
ST. JOHN'S, NL • When Canada is your stage, the message you send matters. So what messaging can be found in the first concert of NACO's Canada 150 tour. The mostly full house at the Arts and Culture Centre heard loud and clear some new Canadian music
BAY ROBERTS, NL • The colours of old St. John's are the pastel pinks, blues, yellows and greens of the Jellybean Houses. The landscape outside the city offered a different palette of steel grey water, dark green conifers and browns ranging from reddish to wheat on the
Myles A. Taylor plays Joey in Kill Me Now, Brad Fraser’s black comedy currently at the National Arts Centre. The character is a teenager with a severe disability, and the play focuses on the relationship between Joey and his father Jake, a widower and his
Robert Chafe is a name familiar to patrons of the National Arts Centre. His script, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams was staged at the NAC last season under the direction of his long-time friend and colleague, Jillian Keiley, the artistic director of the NAC's 's English
ST. JOHN'S, NL • The forecast calls for freezing rain. The northeastern part of this island is slammed by thick pack ice and there's an iceberg south of here that can be seen from space and that helicopters are landing upon. But it was warm and toasty (it
Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas Edited by Stephen Orlov and Samah Sabawi (Playwrights Canada Press) In town: Stephen Orlov and Samah Sabawi are at the Ottawa International Writers Festival Sunday, April 30. They will speak at 2 p.m. at Christ Church Cathedral, 414 Sparks
ARTSFILE has been taken on board the NACO tour of Atlantic Canada from April 26 to May 7. First stop along the way: St. John's, Newfoundland. • Duane Andrews picked up a guitar when he was 10. His mother was learning to play at the same time so
