When the British composer and conductor John Rutter appears in concert on Sunday at Dominion-Chalmers United Church, he'll raise his baton for a work he wrote for Ottawa violinist Kerson Leong. In the first of two ARTSFILE interviews, Rutter talks about the piece called Visions.
Ottawa's School of the Photographic Arts is hosting an exhibition of work by the American-born, South African resident photographer Roger Ballen in its gallery on Pamilla Street in Little Italy. The show opens Friday evening with a reception starting at 6 p.m. and it runs
Stittsville's Grace Lachance is 17 and is about to perform in her fifth concert slot at RBC Ottawa Bluesfest. It's an enviable record for anyone let alone a teenager just graduated from Sacred Heart High School. She'll step out on the stage in the Barney Danson
Back in the mid-'80s, John Allaire was playing guitar in a punk band called Seventh Level. "I used to hang out at The Underground Club and The Downstairs Club and a few of those places" where he started to make friends with guys in other bands
There are times when you witness something so new and different that you are sort of taken aback. That was the case with the premiere of the new opera by Roddy Ellias and Sandra Nicholls (libretto) Sleeping Rough in the first of three powerful performances in
Angelique Francis is all business
It's always worth catching up with Ottawa's violin phenom Kerson Leong. ARTSFILE had an opportunity to do just that before the young soloist's appearance at the Music and Beyond Festival on July 12. He'll also perform a piece written for him by John Rutter in
Down by the Ottawa River, perched atop a stony cliff, is the home of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and three summer exhibitions that span the land, history, and media. The society is at 50 Sussex Dr., nestled between Rideau Falls and the Embassy of France.
One thing about the new Roddy Ellias opera Sleeping Rough: Puppets are at centre stage and for Noreen Young, that's just great. Young, of course, is a well-known puppeteer, TV producer and personality, who is responsible for shows such as Under the Umbrella Tree. The Almonte resident
A few years ago Catriona Sturton had an epiphany. "I was in this hotel room in Fort MacMurray reading an interview about Neko Case, who I have loved for a long time. I got to play harmonica for her once at a show in Halifax. And
