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Eating about music: Exploring the musical life over lunch!

we talked to a lot of people about music. It’s our great joy in life, and hopefully yours as well! We mean a lot of people: it’s Musicians or it’s producers or it’s venue operators, artistic directors, roadies, caterers, even though small animals that we reference on our main page. (hey: I’m blind, I didn’t know!!) … Continue Reading >Eating about music: Exploring the musical life over lunch!

A different kind of animal in the concert hall: But they’re polite and appreciative!

Kathryn & Buddy are talking with other human/dog partners when we return to the Jack Singer Concert Hall lobby, leaving the practicing Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra to hammer out the details of the various Star Wars themes they have been enchanting us with. It’s hard to leave, but I GUESS we’ve got to work as well as listen . . … Continue Reading >A different kind of animal in the concert hall: But they’re polite and appreciative!

Zonnis hopes you’ll ‘giggle at the foibles of humanity’: Storytelling with folk inspired roots-rock

Zonnis:they’re NOT touring through Calgary in the next month; they’re NOT opening for Cindi Lauper at her ‘Final Performance’ in T.O.; and they’re NOT embarking on a Eurasian tour to hit the world’s metropolises before the next hurricane season . . . yet. So why are they in the magazine that claims “Live music is a once in a lifetime experience”? … Continue Reading >Zonnis hopes you’ll ‘giggle at the foibles of humanity’: Storytelling with folk inspired roots-rock

Grimelda rocks: Sort of feeling, sort of fooling

Skyler plays guitar, and Blair plays drums, and apparently they “both shriek like idiots!” Their words, not mine.
That simple list does NOT do them credit, though, because this 2-piece sounds like a 4-piece: with complex melody lines and sequencers and samples clearly being triggered and used during a set that includes songs with . . . movements … Continue Reading >Grimelda rocks: Sort of feeling, sort of fooling

This article is not about Tanya Tagaq, the remarkable Inuk experimental singer

Tanya Tagaq performed in Calgary at the Palace Theatre last week, but this article is NOT about her amazing event.
And for that matter, the video below has nothing in particular to do with her show: she didn’t mention Norman McLaren, nor the National Film Board; in fact she didn’t mention … Continue Reading >This article is not about Tanya Tagaq, the remarkable Inuk experimental singer

If ‘You Know That You Want To’, there’s no sense going half-assed: Redhead Mack Band is rockin’ for fun!

Apparently Kevin Phillips, lead singer and songwriter for the newly minted rock quartet Redhead Mack Band, plays a custom electric guitar made by Northwood, a Canadian company that “normally makes acoustic but occasionally electric guitars.” … Continue Reading >If ‘You Know That You Want To’, there’s no sense going half-assed: Redhead Mack Band is rockin’ for fun!