The man who hepled to start it all in the first place 26 years ago was one of the recipients of the 2018 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA) for a lifetime of achievement in the arts. The outgoing CEO of the National Arts Centre Peter
The Ottawa Symphony Orchestra is opening up its project to 3D print new musical instruments to a wider community with what it is calling a national 3D Printed Musical Instrument Challenge aimed at designing a cost-effective "ergonomically optimized instrument that leverages the power of 3D
The TD Ottawa Jazz Festival is getting ready for a party and a fundraiser as a way to turn the page on the soggy summer of 2017. The event at Library and Archives Canada on Wellington Street Thursday evening will feature the Montreal Guitar Trio, an auction
For almost five years, the talented Toronto-based singer-songwriter Emma Cook thought she might not ever be able to sing again. A falling tree branch changed her life seemingly forever. "My career was in good shape. I had quit my day job and I had bought a car.
Connie Lim was in kind of a tough place in January 2017. The singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, better known as MILCK, had been dumped by her management team in 2016 after being promised a shot at a record deal. And she was looking for something to
Ludwig Van Beethoven once said "music comes more readily to me than words." For those who listen they can hear the truth of that in Southam Hall next fall. All nine of his symphonies begin a new season of performance at the NAC. They will be
New works by Akram Khan and Crystal Pite. A Face 2 Face festival featuring Indigenous performance from Canada, Australia and New Zealand. A return to the classics by Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and an appearance by Evelyn Hart highlight the 2018-19 season of dance at
When Jillian Keiley plans the NAC's English Theatre (ET) season, it's always about the thrill of the chase and the luck of the draw. She looks for companies and projects that should appear on the NAC's stages and be seen by larger audiences, often with a
The National Arts Centre Orchestra has just released the album New Worlds, its fifth in three years, in an ambitious program of recording music with the Quebec based classical label Analekta. The album is the third under the baton of music director Alexander Shelley. Two others were
The National Arts Centre paid tribute to outgoing CEO Peter Herrndorf Thursday night with a dinner and entertainment in what was considered the first official event in the recently renovated Canada Room that overlooks, on one side, the Rideau Canal and on the other side
