Jan Kudelka performs her third annual Janis Joplin’s Birthday Bash at the Tranzac Club on January 18 at 8:30pm.
3rd Annual Janis Joplin’s Birthday Bash
Jan Kudelka performs her third annual Janis Joplin’s Birthday Bash at the Tranzac Club on January 18 at 8:30pm.
‘Tis the Season! Renaissance and Medieval music celebrates Advent,with a Free Medieval & Renaissance Concert on Friday, December 9, 7:30pm, St. Basil’s Church.
The Upper Canada Choristers and their Latin ensemble Cantemos celebrate the holiday season in their concert Noche de Paz: an Old World and New World Christmas. Founder Laurie Evan Fraser conducts the 40+ mixed-voice choir of men and women, Friday, December 2, 8 pm at Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road.
Toronto Masque Theatre’s (TMT) season of desire & transformation continues with a double bill of two very different explorations of love & loss, obsession & heartbreak: one a dramatic cantata from the 18th century, the other a popular19th-century melodrama. This double bill of love & loss will feature Handle’s Baroque dramatic cantata Apollo & Daphne and Richard Strauss’s Romantic melodrama Enoch Arden.
Simply put, when you’re the only koto-playing indie soul jazz singer-songwriter in the west (the koto is a traditional Japanese 13-stringed instrument) whose trademark red hair and genre-bending dancefloor grooves have taken you on multiple tours throughout Asia and Australia, despite being Vancouver born and a Toronto native, you’re bound to raise an eyebrow (or 2000?). This is the fate of Jessica Stuart from The Jessica Stuart Few who will be in concert to celebrate their new album The Passage, tonight October 27 at 8:30pm, Supermarket.
The Julian Taylor Band has been busy this summer with concerts at Burlington’s Sound of Music Festival, Canada Day Celebrations in Scarborough and David Pecaut Square. Yet they made time in their busy schedule to record new music. The band is releasing two new singles from the upcoming Desert Star double album, called “Fever,” and “Get Loud.”
SummerWorks Performance Festival returns for its 26th year August 4-14, with expanded programming and new venues, to provide a platform for new and adventurous performance works, offering one of their most diverse line-up to date.
A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the launch for the first of six CDs of Mozart’s complete catalogue of violin and piano sonatas, the last joint collaboration by the duo of pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico and the late violinist Jacques Israelievitch.
Yonge-Dundas Square (YDS) is proud to present Indie Fridays, the free concert series that will kickstart the weekends in the heart of the city from June 24 to September 2 starting at 8pm.
Toronto’s Open Roof Festival (ORF), celebrating indie film and music, returns for its seventh season for 10 weeks, kicking-off on June 21 with screenings on either Tuesday or Wednesday.
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