Love was decidedly in the air at this week’s Casual Friday concert at NACO. Valentine’s Day meant lots of cute couples and families on dates, lots of audience members decked out in glam red and pink and lots of women carrying roses from their sweethearts,
When Ottawa's Lynne Hanson was thinking about recording her latest album of roots music called Just Words, she wanted to find a producer who would work with her without working on her. She had had that kind of experience before and she didn't want that again.
Ten years ago, Vancouver was hosting a very success Winter Olympics, the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, Kesha topped the Billboard 100 with Tik Tok and the Arab Spring began in Tunisia. In Ottawa Jim Watson was elected mayor and the Thirteen Strings Chamber
Dana Gingras likes those liminal spaces She finds inspiration for the dance works she creates in between things. It is a learned experience for the Canadian choreographer whose young life lacked roots because her parents were always moving across great distances. This sense of displacement and being
Twenty-five years ago, Wouter Van Looy was a violinist involved in theatrical productions in his native Belgium when he had a eureka moment. The result is a festival called Big Bang. "At that time I was a musician working in the theatre. I was going to a
On Sunday Angela Hewitt revealed on her facebook page the unfortunate demise of her beloved $250,000 Fazioli piano, dropped and destroyed by movers. The piano is the one used on many of her recordings and it was a close friend, really an extension of her
In Bavaria, in the town of Augsburg, winter has not descended on Janina Fialkowska. Climate change has changed weather patterns there too. But she knows that snow and ice awaits when she lands in Ottawa on Feb. 18 for a concert with the Thirteen Strings chamber
As a girl, Elizabeth Bowman dreamed of being a singer, performing recitals and finding roles in operas. "As a young person you think that would be the life
To start, a short, sweet story: “Russell Yuristy was the first contemporary artist I knew,” recalls Alexandra Badzak, who grew up playing on Duck Boat, built by Yuristy beside the South Saskatchewan River in 1972. “Here was a piece of contemporary public art that I was
A few days before this interview Desmond Cole went to a huge LCBO in downtown Toronto in the middle of the day to purchase something. As soon as he entered the store and starting looking around, a security guard started to follow him. Cole is a young
