The Berkshire Hills encompass the Litchfield, Connecticut area where Moses Pendleton lives and walks in the New England countryside that echoes with the footsteps of the transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. The founder and artistic director of the innovative dance theatre company MOMIX
Petr Cancura says, tongue in cheek, that he has been looking for some divine intervention with the weather gods to make the sun shine on the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival this summer and avoida deluge of the kind that dampened spirits and ticket sales in
You have to wonder how Patr Cancura fits in all the work, what with his role as the programming director at the Ottawa Jazz Festival, teaching and many gigs, but somehow he does. The Energizer Bunny of the Ottawa jazz scene is stepping onto the NAC
“I love you” doesn't slip easily from Daphne’s tongue. But they are words that her grown daughter Claudette hungers to hear from her mother. That disconnect — which spirals outward to include Claudette’s sister Valerie, their dead sibling Cloe and multiple generations of black women with
For young boys and girls of a certain inclination, the dream of running away to join a circus seems a very acceptable alternative to humdrum reality. Yoann Bourgeois is one who actually acted on his dreams. "When I was a young boy," the French choreographer and
As a much-decorated singer, radio personality and raconteur, Murray McLauchlan has been a very public figure for more than 45 years. But when he got the call that he was being honoured with a lifetime achievement award from the governor general, he had to pause
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.
