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Julie Nesrallah is a mezzo-soprano singing sensation hailing from Ottawa, Ontario. Bringing her stunning voice and presence as a performer to the studio, Nesrallah will host TEMPO airing Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. TEMPO is a fresh, spontaneous and insightful look into the world of classical music in Canada and around the world.
As a performer, Nesrallah has dazzled audiences with her rich tone and engaging personality in many riveting roles with leading opera companies across North America and abroad, including Carmen in Carmen, Isabella in L'Italiana in Algeri, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly and Maddalena in Rigoletto. She has also sung with many prestigious orchestras and ensembles such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Orford Wind Quintet and the Molinari String Quartet, to name a few.
The accomplished singer has received many prestigious awards and prizes, including the Canada Council for the Arts Emerging Artist Award & Mid-Career Grant, the Brian Law Opera Award Grand Prize, and the Journées de la Musique Française Grand Prize. She has also performed for Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan and Her Royal Highness Princess Haya of Jordan.
2009 Juno winners Chic Gamine entertain with their wonderful vocal harmonies at the Regina Folk Festival.
A real Winnipeg favourite, this quartet brought its urban-rootsy, homespun sound to the Park Theatre. Their guitars, banjo, accordion, bass and drums are topped by the sweetest vocals and enhanced, strangely, by the theramin. Their sound captures the duality of the prairies in that it is at once contemporary and old-fashioned, dark and light, lonely yet cosy.