Live Music Is A Once In A Lifetime Experience
MUSICAlive! has a conundrum. Admittedly, we FREQUENTLY have a conundrum, but for different reasons! This time, it’s because our interviewee, César of KULTURA INFAMe, sings in a foreign language. In an unexpected genre. Mostly on video. Before the release of their first album! …
MUSICAlive! speaks with Chaeyoung Park while the Honens International Piano Competition
Semifinals are ongoing, and she and the other competitor we interview are performing on the same day, albeit in different Sessions. We have her tell us about her favourite piano so far, seeing as she spends large portions of her life attached to one! …
Daryl Simpson of The Celtic Tenors (TCT) admits that “We were not early adopters of using the digital platform.” This is relevant because their Christmas album, which has been out for so long he’s forgotten the year, only came out in digital last year! And we learn they …
“Well, I don’t actually play any instruments!” Jimmy Peggie tells us.
A strange admission from someone to be telling a MUSICAlive! interviewer, but we are NOT surprised. When wandering through the farther edges of the things we listen to for pleasure/entertainment/empowerment/enlightenment, sometimes it’s no longer a 3 minute lyric about “girl meetsboy/loses boy/finds boy …
Élisabeth Pion is from Canada, but you’d never know it if you glanced through her resume: training in Italy AND the UK AND Montreal, and with a British phone prefix when we finally connect. MUSICAlive!, with an international subject matter that keeps us guessing what accent we will hear next, left it up to discovery: which is that this charming jewel is Quebecois …
Fruteland Jackson is practically unstoppable, and that’s a good thing. Because not only is he a font of wisdom regarding the depth and history of the American Blues, he also writes and plays a pretty good ragtime riff, too. …
Johnathon May brings me my Cafe Mocha and raisin bran muffin while I set up the recording device for our interview in the National Music Centre coffeeshop. Not only does it seem like an appropriate place for such interviews (having been used to talk to Rielle most recently, amongst others …
