The 2009 festival theme is EXTASE. Husband and wife virtuoso Winnipeg artists Gwen Hoebig and David Moroz give the premiere performance of Vincent Ho’s Sonata for Violin and Piano.
Three of Beethoven's much-loved Cello Sonatas from Coop and Lysy's tour of International Festivals.
The 2009 festival theme is EXTASE, and world renowned cellist Matt Haimovitz appears as a guest artist this year.
He'll perform music by Montreal composers Ana Sokolovic, Serge Provost, and Luna Pearl Woolf.
The brilliant young Janaki String Trio - featured on CBC Radio 2's Next! series - perform music by Schubert and Mozart.
Toronto-born, modern jazz vocalist, Yvette Tollar celebrates the release of her new CD, "Ima". Yvette's rich and highly expressive voice is unique on the Canadian jazz scene and proves the perfect vehicle for this collection of Canadian songs.
Singer-songwriter Royal Wood - featured in Radio 2's Next! series - steps into the spotlight for this show at the Mod Club.
The erhu, pipa and tabla in music by Alexina Louie, Chan Ka Nin, and Jin Zhang.
The Four Seasons Harp Quartet perform transcriptions of Mozart, Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.
At times soulful & haunting, at times driving and rhythmic, Coco Zhao delivers jazz vocals like no other. Backed by Quebec's incredible band Jazzlab and in his native Chinese, Zhao sings mostly original compositions by Chinese composers. Hear his wistful voice from a return engagement to this year's Vancouver International Jazz Festival.
The erhu, pipa and tabla in music by Alexina Louie, Chan Ka Nin, and Jin Zhang.
New Works Calgary launches their 25th anniversary season with a program of music from Canada and the Ukraine.
Send + Receive: A Festival of Sound
Alexandre St-Onge is a composer, a bass player, and improviser. He plays in quite a few bands, including Shalabi Effect, Feu Thérèse, mineminemine, Et Sans (with Roger Tellier-Craig), Klaxon Gueule (with Michel F Côté and Bernard Falaise). As a composer he has worked for interactive/mixed-media company Kondition Pluriel, as well as composing for dance (for Karine Denault, Lynda Gaudreau, Maryse Poulin, Mariko Tanabe and Marie-Claude Poulin), theater and video.
This edgy country blues singer lets it all hang out on stage at the Park Theatre, joined by guitarist Chris Carmichael.
A real Winnipeg favourite, this quartet brought its urban-rootsy, homespun sound to the Park Theatre.
Their sound captures the duality of the prairies in that it is at once contemporary and old-fashioned, dark and light, lonely yet cosy.
Aggressive versus quiet. Seven versus one. It didn't seem like a very fair matchup when Vancouver's Fond of Tigers and Toronto's Sandro Perri met in CBC Ottawa's Studio 40 to meld their music. But the gentle-voiced Sandro and his subtly experimental folk proved a perfect foil to the rock-jazz improvisations of Fond of Tigers.
Ana Miura, Amanda Rheaume, NLX: Natasha Alexandra, Q the Romantic Revolutionary and Caridad Cruz (with Cesar Ricardo) perform their works in support of a variety of charities for the research and support of breast cancer.
Peter Hum is a journalist by day and a pianist by night. Nathan Cepelinski is a 20-year-old saxophonist and composer. This concert features both of these emerging jazz artists from Ottawa.
Quartets by Beethoven, Shostakovich and Heather Schmidt. More information
In February of 2009 "In Flight Safety" officially released their 2nd full length recording "We Are An Empire, My Dear" with a bash at Halifax's Marquee Club. We caught up with them there.
We'll feature two contemporary works from the Winnipeg New Music Festival - the world premiere of Gregory Kozak's "Composition for Chariot of Choir and Strings," commissioned by CBC Radio Two. It features the composer performing on a brand new instrument of his own design (which he has named "Chariot of Choir"). In addition we'll hear Orjan Sandred's Labryinths in the Wind, featuring Allen Harrington playing a MIDI Wind Controller.
On the last Tuesday in May, seven musicians most of whom have never performed together and six of whom play the banjo, gathered at the West End Cultural Centre in Winnipeg to perform a night of old time, clawhammer and modern styles of banjo.
Recorded at Summerfest in the Joe Zuken Park, singer/songwriter Don Amero inspires listeners to take care of themselves and the world around them.
NQ Arbuckle's charismatic frontman Neville Quinlan wields a battered black acoustic guitar and strums it with enough force to rival any powered six-string! His gritty vocals are backed by NQA's tight twin brothers Mark and Peter Kesper on lead guitar and drums along with everybody's favourite bass player, John Dinsmore.
Chanteuse and songwriter Andrea Lindsay and band bring out their fine porcelain pop.
Kellylee Evans celebrates her birthday by performing songs from her upcoming CD for a hometown crowd in Ottawa.
Emm Gryner performs music from her new album 'Goddess'.
Tweny-four years ago, Kemer Yousef had to leave his home country of Ethiopia because of ethnic conflict. Recently, Kemer returned to Ethiopia as a pop star and musical ambassador. This performance at the Brigantine Room is the first Canadian show since Kemer's triumphant tour of his homeland.
Kemer Yousef is held in high regard by the communities that populate the Horn of Africa. Through storytelling, poetry and music, Kemer passes the oral history from one generation to the next and he brings his own interpretation of the "stories" of his cultural heritage. Canada Live will bring you these stories when we record this special concert.
A concert illustrating the history of gospel music that takes us from the songs of African-American slaves right up to the latest Kirk Franklin hit.
Singer-songwriter Courtney Wing leads a 13-piece "operatic folk ensemble" in a unique and inspired performance.