Jack Jr. and Sherry should have just eloped. It would have spared their families the misery of a wedding reception that was doomed from the start to implode. On the other hand, it would have meant that Kristen Thomson’s clever and very funny The Wedding Party,
The Gryphon Trio celebrated 25 years of music together Friday night with a major new piece of Canadian music and six very talented new friends from Norway. Those new amigos are the ensemble Nordic Voices. The sextet from Oslo took the audience on a bravura musical
The National Ballet of Canada is making its annual NAC pilgrimage this week. Instead of a full-length production, this year’s tour showcases a delightful triple bill of modern ballets — just the kind of escapist fare we’re all craving in the depths of winter. Paz
The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity has always seemed, from the outside, to be a bit like JRR Tolkein's Rivendell — a place to aspire to, splendid but somewhat remote — a retreat if you will, where talented people go to gather their thoughts and
Actor Craig Lauzon admits that a moving bus isn’t the easiest venue to perform in. That’s where he does the one-man show Tales of an Urban Indian by Canadian playwright Darrell Dennis. Part of the upcoming undercurrents theatre festival, the site-specific show takes place in
Starting in 2020, the members of the Gryphon Trio will be part of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity as the directors of the institution's Classical Music Summer Program. For Roman Borys, Annalee Patipatanakoon and Jamie Parker, it is a return to their roots as all
Georges St-Pierre (GSP to his fans) just might be the most famous Canadian athlete on the planet today. His name is synonymous with the pinnacle of success in the brutal sport of Mixed Martial Arts fighting. Now a key piece of his legacy in the
There is a spectrum of treatment for mental health concerns, says Joanne Bezzubetz, president and CEO of The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre. It ranges from hospitalization to emergency departments to one on one appointments. All of which offer a route to better health. Included in that spectrum now
Soprano Tone Braaten is a member of the vocal ensemble Nordic Voices, who will make their Ottawa debut in a Chamberfest concert on Feb. 1. In the show they will sing a new composition called Scar Tissue. Before the event, Braaten answered some questions from
How would you set the word phosphatidylinositol to music? Well, if you are the Vancouver-based composer Jeffrey Ryan, you fashion a lullaby and have it sung in the round. And so he did with this word that is contained in a poem about scar tissue. It is
