Lytton Park chanteuse ready to bring Ella (and Louis) to jazz festival
Barbra Lica is ramping up for a performance at the TD Toronto Jazz Festival on June 22 at Home Smith Bar inside the Old Mill.
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Emilie-Claire Barlow to celebrate 20-year career at jazz festival
This year’s Emilie-Claire Barlow show at the TD Toronto Jazz Festival is 20 years in the making. It’s been that
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19-year-old singer pours painful emotions into cathartic album
Former Windfields and Don Mills resident, Locklyn, 19, has distilled all of her raw creativity and emotion into a new album, Rel8te, released March 8.
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Sharon and Bram have surprises in store for fans on national tour
Two-thirds of the children’s entertainment trio, Sharon, Lois and Bram are kicking off their farewell tour this October, and it’s an exciting time for them.
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Petrowska Quilico releases two CDs this fall
Pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico lost a beloved recording 20 years ago. But in 2018 she put together the same track listing to record a two-disc album.
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Apr. 28: The music we love to recall
Spring has arrived and also the Music on the Donway with Danny’s 7 — Sweet Music We Love to Remember, featuring Nina Richmond.
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When two pop culture lovers get talking
An old grandfather clock ticks out its rhythm like a metronome atop a piano, as former Toronto Star pop culture columnist Peter Goddard sits across from me in his Annex home.
Read moreSharon and Bram re-release a classic, talk of new garden
The re-release of 1,2,3,4 Live on April 15 has stirred up some warm memories for Sharon Hampson and Bram Morrison. They’re
Read moreRatchford shares his life with friend Rita MacNeil
Singer and Cape Breton ex-pat Raymond Ratchford shrouds his mourning under a large-brimmed hat and amber-hued sunglasses. The Davisviller is
Read moreLegge’s new rock project is a la mode
North Toronto’s Jason Legge is standing in a second-floor hallway at the Rehearsal Factory at Sherbourne and Front when he makes a bold statement of his new band, Ally Mode.
Read moreIsabel Fryszberg plays her Heart-strings out
There’s a small shoe rack tucked beside the apartment door that’s home to singer-songwriter Isabel Fryszberg’s footwear.
Read moreThe arts are more than electives to midtown schools
When it comes the required courses at the high school level, it’s always the maths, science and Englishes that take precedence. But what of the electives: visual arts, drama and film making?
Read morePrognosis good for Maladies
Ask Kohji Nagata and Josh Awerbuck of The Maladies of Adam Stokes what their influences are and they’ll shift their
Read moreAmy Sky awakens to joyful messaging
Rosedale singer-songwriter Amy Sky has awakened.
Read moreNo drama, just harmony for Petty Victories
There’s nothing small about Colleen Dauncey’s and Zoe Sky Jordan’s musical side project, Petty Victories.
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