Live! MUSICA Stories
Rocksteady riddim . . . from Chile: Who says the islands own Reggae?
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! …
2 competitors, 2 viewpoints: The Honens Semifinals Pt. 2
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! …
The Celtic Tenors are coming to town: A little sacred, a little secular
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 …
Phaeton rising: ‘A progressive rock band that has a big foot in the heavy metal camp.’
As a writer, it should be no surprise that I’m focused on words and their significance. So when a band that is emphatically instrumental pops up we’re interested in how they decide on the naming of works, when there’s no obvious lyric plot to introduce or summarize.
Ferdy Belland, bassist for the adept and powerful prog-metal band
Jimmy Peggie undone: What does a Sound Artist do?
“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 …
2 competitors, 2 viewpoints: The Honens Semifinals Pt. 1
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 …
Doh! Has Canada’s premiere punk band grown up? DOA ain’t dead yet!
When discussing the upcoming concert by DOA in Calgary with another musically engaged colleague, the fact of a band named “DO” still existing 47 years after their “Arrival” shows clearly that the name is appropriately ironic!
Joe Shithead, DOA founder, songwriter, guitarist and vocalist: “The cover album by all my punk …
Fruteland Jackson tells the blues: Spreading the history and gospel of Americana
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. …