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
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
