2017 Year-End Roundup: Favorite Jazz and Blues Albums
As our regular readers know, we most frequently focus on Canadian roots and folk music. But we are eclectic listeners here, and we’ve started…
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Interview: Alex Pangman, “Alex Pangman’s Hot Three”
Although I am of a certain age to recall fondly my record player with tinny speakers and my spindle of 45’s (borrowed, I admit,…
Interview: Flypaper Orchestra, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
Many of us with parents who grew up in the Great Depression undoubtedly heard stories about its miseries, and perhaps also heard some of…
Snappy Snippets, Holiday Style: O’Pears, Bros, Tomato Tomato, Emilie-Claire Barlow
For many people, the Christmas holidays are a time to pull out scads of holiday albums and crank up those old, familiar Christmas songs…
Celebrate the Holidays With the Halifax Jazz Festival and Support Music Education
The Halifax Jazz Festival is expanding its annual holiday fundraiser this season, adding a new show, “Swing Into The Holidays,” for the evening entertainment, along with perennial family favorite, “Tales of a Charlie…
Interview: The Lesters, “The Promise”
Tory Cassis, Murray Foster, and Jeff Ulster have each enjoyed significant careers, but (as for other musicians) there were still some musical avenues awaiting…
Interview: Diana Panton, “solstice/equinox”
Today, two-time Juno winner Diana Panton celebrates the release of her new album, “solstice/equinox,” a celebration of the four seasons in song. Together with…
Starting a New Adventure: Kensington Market Jazz Festival, Toronto
Wanting to enjoy yet another later summer weekend in southern Ontario, we had the good fortune of spending some quality time on Saturday afternoon/evening…