Barbara Croall is an Odawa First Nations composer who is also a teacher and a performer. Her work is rooted in traditional Anishinaabeg teachings while exploring European musical traditions and styles. On Sept. 19, her work, Zasakwaa (There is a Heavy Frost), will be performed
No two ways about it: Opening night of Marie Clements’ play The Unnatural and Accidental Women at the NAC was significant. It marked the revival of a respected writer’s story about murdered Indigenous women that, including its premiere in 2000, has had only a couple of
One of the world's finest piano trios will be warming up February in Ottawa. The Vienna Piano Trio will bring a program into the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre that includes Haydn's Trio in E Minor, XV:12; Brahms' Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 101 and Beethoven's Archduke Trio,
Michael Milosh started with a cello at age three. His violinist father, John, wanted to expose his son to a stringed instrument at an early age. Michael, it turns out, liked the cello and he studied it until he was a teenager. He started in Suzuki training
The CityFolk music festival is, like modern folk itself, a creature that is ever evolving and more eclectic. The same can be said of the East Pointers, who, through three albums, have been weaving the traditional and the contemporary into something new that’s not quite
Buffy Sainte-Marie usually gets up early — between 5 and 6 a.m. Sometimes, if she has been travelling away from her home in Hawaii, she's up earlier. "That's jet lag mostly, these days, though, clocks mean less and less," she said over the phone while she
The world is focussed on issues of identity, gender, trauma, truth and reconciliation, the Ottawa Writers Festival’s fall lineup is certainly reflecting that. Several authors of Indigenous heritage are bringing their stories to the festival which runs from Oct. 24 to Oct. 29 including writers
Rich Francis was working on a construction site in London, Ontario when he made a decision that changed his life. The son of a Gwich'in father and a Mohawk mother hails these days from Six Nations near Hamilton. At the time he was an iron worker.
Few playwrights would compare their work to a humble vegetable. In the case of Where the Blood Mixes, Kevin Loring does exactly that. The Governor General’s Award-winning play —which Loring started writing two decades ago and is being revived as part of NAC Indigenous Theatre’s much-anticipated
The Ottawa Symphony is 55 years young. "That's a lot of uninterrupted music," said music director Alain Trudel in an interview with ARTSFILE about the new season. "It is proof of the power of the desire of local people to come together to make music. This is
