An “artistic ice jam” may sound like a pas de deux in figure skating, but in fact it’s the unexpectedly unique introduction to the new Arctic gallery at the Canadian Museum of Nature. The phrase was used by museum CEO Meg Beckel to describe the installation
Ottawa composer Kelly-Marie Murphy has won the first ever Maria Anna Mozart Award for Canadian female composers. The award was created by Symphony Nova Scotia in 2016. It provides funds for Symphony Nova Scotia to commission and perform a new symphonic work by a Canadian woman every three
Kenton Leier has been named the new Executive Chef of the NAC. He takes his post on July 26. Leier has more than 25 years of culinary and food and beverage experience, the NAC said in a media releasee. His last post was with the Westin Hotel
Pierre Kwenders is the stage name of the Congolese Canadian musician José Louis Modabi. He told the Montreal Gazette that he adopted the stage name in honour of his grandfather, a man he never met. His star has been rising in French Canada for some
As a teenager, in 1969, John Scofield had a chance to go to the Woodstock festival. It was happening just down the turnpike from his home. "I had a ticket that I had bought, but I had a day job after school," the legendary jazz guitarist said in
Festival Pontiac Enchanté is a chamber series at the beautiful Venturing Hills Farm concert space in the municipality of Pontiac about a half hour northwest of Ottawa. Founded by Carson Becke, the festival has evolved into a year-round concert series. The next concert features an ambitious programme
Two small ensemble classical concerts at Canada Scene this weekend presented a striking contrast between the experimental and the traditional. One was innovative, inclusive and thoroughly engaging, despite some flaws in the execution. The other was technically impeccable, but stuffy and unoriginal. On Saturday afternoon, the
In his 68-plus years Roddy Ellias has played a lot of music and released his share of CDS, but the one he has just finished recording is "the best thing I've ever done." Ellias recorded the as yet untitled disc with one of his regular playing
For 10 years Propeller Dance has been showing how anyone can join in and dance. The celebrate the decade, ARTSFILE asked Propeller's co-artistic director Renata Soutter about her newest choreography, Living the Desirable Life, why Propeller started and where it hopes to go. Q. Can you
At what point does an opera revival turn into a permanent burial? The Canadian Opera Company and NACO have put in a heroic joint effort into resurrecting Louis Riel, Harry Somers’ 1967 opera about the visionary but ultimately doomed Métis leader and father of Manitoba.
