The National Arts Centre Orchestra is about to mark the golden anniversary of its first concert in 1969 at the end of this month. For Alexander Shelley, that's one part of a very big month for NACO. But before the 50th anniversary concerts of Sept. 30
This week the new NAC Indigenous Theatre department will begin its first season with a massive festival of Indigenous performing arts called Mòshkamo, an Algonquin word meaning, according to a media release: the act of appearing out of water, inviting others to bear witness to the
Ottawa's Lara Deutsch was suffering from a bout of strep throat when she got a call to attend a meeting that “I was told was very important and couldn’t be rescheduled.” Even though she was sick — and on antibiotics — she went. Good thing. She was
Was The Unnatural and Accidental Women by Métis-Dene playwright Marie Clements born too soon? It seems that way. Clements’ surrealist play based on the murders of multiple Indigenous women by Gilbert Paul Jordan on Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside over a two-decade period debuted at that
For about half a century, Duain Wolfe has been putting choirs through their paces. Here's a taste of his impressive resume: He's in his 20th season as director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus. He founded and still leads the Colorado Symphony Chorus in Mile High Denver. He
For the first time, the Prismatic Arts Festival will travel from Halifax to Ottawa where a mix of theatre, dance, music and visual art made by some 20 Indigenous artists and artists of colour will be presented in five different venues including GCTC, The Gladstone
Melody Courage has always loved singing. "I started as a small child with dreams of being a pop star." Instead she has turned to a career as a soprano singing classical and contemporary repertoire. She was converted onto this musical path in a movie theatre in Comox,
Ian Cusson was the Carrefour composer in residence with the National Arts Centre Orchestra when he was offered a unique commission from NACO and the Canadian Opera Company this past spring. The assignment was to write a new aria for the Canadian opera Louis Riel, replacing
After five years, the Marvest festival of local music shows no signs of slowing down. Marvest will take place this year on Sept. 13 and 14. The companion event to the CityFolk festival taking place in Lansdowne Park will happen in some 28 different spaces —
The fall season of Doors Open for Music at Southminster Church includes a mix of the magic of the pipe organ, music of the Baroque, chamber music, jazz and much more. The series assembled annually by artistic director Roland Graham gets under way Sept. 4
