Category: Past24

Tempête solaire is a new drone/free jazz/apocolyptic party music band from Montréal featuring Eric Quach (bass), Eric Craven (drums) and Elyze Venne-Deshaies (saxophone) …

Arts in the Margins is proud to present Elena Stoodley as part of Brique par brique’s Monsoon Festival. Join us for this free rain or shine community event with multiple outdoor performances, food booths and workshops in Dickie Moore Park right across from the Brique par brique community centre …

Kaia Kater’s new album, Strange Medicine (coming May 2024 on Free Dirt Records), opens with a haunting vision. Accompanied by Aoife O’Donovan, Kater sings of the women burned at the stake as witches in 17th century Salem, Massachusetts …

Kirdar Theatre is a Montreal based Punjabi language theatre group which was founded in 2022 by actor/directors Gaurav Sharma and Nitu Sharma …

Josephine Foster is a Colorado composer and performer whose “music plays games with our ideas of time and space” says The Guardian. The Nashville Scene describes her work a”fusion of art song and American folk music” …

Shimmer Wince is a new quintet led by saxophonist, flutist, and composer Anna Webber. Featuring Adam O’Farrill on trumpet, Mariel Roberts on cello, Elias Stemeseder on synthesizer, and Lesley Mok on drums …

The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble was formed in 1974 shortly after Sir Kahil El Zabar graduated from Lake Forest College, with the goal, “To combine concepts of African American music with its earlier roots in traditional African music, to produce new motifs and sounds true to their origins yet firmly pointed in a new artistic direction of enlightenment and deep listening”.

The Air Contains Honey is an “orchestra” that mixes professional and amateur musicians in search of a warmth and community spirit they may or may not find …