The poem, All Rivers at Once written by Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet, is the inspiration for the performance of the Israeli-Iranian Musical Initiative at Toronto’s...
Protégé of Quincy Jones and David Foster, Andreas Varady is only 18 years old and has already made a name for himself in the world jazz...
Brazilian-born, Paris-based for over 20 years, Márcio Faraco stays true to the traditional music of Brazil, melding the language of the samba, bossa nova and choro...
Edith Piaf’s 100th birthday is celebrated by French singer Anne Carrère; a star of the Oscar winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom. On the evening of...
Illustrious flamenco dancer José Porcel brought his dance company Compañia Flamenca to the city with his sizzling hot show “Flamenco Fire”, on stage at Flato Markham...
The Assad Brothers with Romero Lubambo made a magnificent appearance at Flato Markham Theatre on February 12, 2015, as part of the Diamond Series Season 2014-2015....
On October 21, 2014, a rare reunion of Canada’s greatest big band – “Rob McConnell’s Boss Brass” took place at Koerner Hall in Toronto. McConnell passed...
An exciting and engaging show of Jully Black and her band on Saturday March 1st, celebrated Markham’s own, “Canada’s Queen of R&B” homecoming at the Flato...
When the lineup for the new season at the Markham Flato Theatre in Markham was announced in the spring of this year, the biggest wave of...
“To hear David Broza’s music is to be moved. To see Broza in concert is to be mesmerized.” – (New York Post) Back in 1977 when...
First there was life; then death and then life again. Perhaps that’s because human have a natural tendency to aspire...
If a record label – or imprint – were to be considered an “unfillable” library in the sense that the...
Ana-Marija Markovina: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy – Complete Works for Piano [Solo] Few composers – artistic geniuses at that – have...
There has been a plethora of re-issued recordings in the past few years, but none quite like this on –...
The brilliant young guitarist Plínio Fernandes proves once again [although he probably did not set out to do so] that...
Mozart Sonatas K.282, K.283, K.310, K.331, K332, K545 & K576 If classical radio stations [in Toronto, at any rate] are...
Nella Rojas, or simply Nella, is a new voice hailing from the Venezuelan Island of Margarita Born in Venezuela, Nella...
Rail Band of the Train Station Hotel, Ambassadeurs of the Motel of Bamako, Ambassadeurs Internationaux, and lately, Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux: so many bands that...
His sugarcane-sweet melodies, pop-soul hooks and powerful guitar riffs, relinquish a conventional stereotype that exemplifies much of the Latin music...