Think of a great violin or cello solo. It is a marriage of two things: a well-made instrument and a talented musician. That synergy matters. This has been the purpose of the Canada Council's Musical Instrument Bank since it was founded in 1985. At the time, says
The National Gallery of Canada will host a retrospective of the work of the Swiss artist Paul Klee for the first time in Canada since 1979. The works by Klee highlight a busy fall season that also includes an exciting multi-disciplinary exhibition called Anthropocene and
Three years ago Ottawa native Yolanda Bruno got a Stradivarius violin. She didn't have a rich benefactor, nor is she wealthy. She got her instrument from an important institution, The Canada Council Musical Instrument Bank. In this interview with ARTSFILE, Bruno talks about her choice
Antonio Llaca was 18 when he arrived in Ottawa. That young man was, as he says today, in love with stringed instruments and he had applied, and been accepted, in the music department of the University of Ottawa intending to study classical guitar. Ottawa is a long
Trevor Tolley was an English professor and, for a time, the Dean of Arts at Carleton University. But he was more than that. He was a music lover and collector. In fact he accumulated more than 7,000 records over about 75 years. Most of the
The former Canada and the World pavilion was always a building with a breathtaking view and no occupant. It is on Sussex Drive right beside Rideau Falls, overlooking the Ottawa River and the Gatineau River and Hills. It is, as John Geiger says, sitting on
The Ottawa School of Art turns 140 in 2019 and for 30 of those years, it has been led, through thick and thin, by a bagpipe-playing, printmaker named Jeff Stellick. Stellick is from Saskatchewan. He attended the University of Regina where he studied printmaking under
In this recent interview ARTSFILE asked the Carlet0n PhD student Jenna Herdman about her project to 'text-mine' Jane Austen novels. The ability of computers to sort large amounts of information turns out to be a useful tool when it comes to seeing patterns in literature.
How did the greatest hip hop album to rise out of Ottawa become a tragic story? It is, admittedly, subjective to state that Bad Information, the second record from Flight Distance, is the city’s greatest, but few would deny the tragedy of the past six
For the third year in a row the mavens at Toronto-based Dine Alone Records and the folks at the Mill Street Brew Pub in Ottawa are putting on a festival in a parking lot. Called Hopped and Confused, this year's event on Friday Aug. 17 and
