Album: Death Speaks Composer: David Lang Artists: Shara Worden (vocals), Bryce Dessner (guitar), Owen Pallett (violin), Nico Muhly (piano) ?Art songs have been moving out of classical music in the last many years. Indie rock seems to be the place where Schubert’s sensibilities now lie, a better match for direct story telling and intimate emotionality.?… Read more »
Christine Tassan is an amazing singer and composer and an acoustic guitar maestro in the gypsy jazz and French chanson traditions. She’s also an electrical engineer and a film director. Her band, Les Imposteures, is composed entirely of women, all formidable musicians in their own right. They’ll be performing together at the Montreal International Jazz… Read more »
Elizabeth Shepherd is a jazz/soul pianist and singer. In 2006 her debut album, Start To Move, was voted one of the top jazz albums by listeners of the Gilles Peterson Show on BBC Radio Worldwide. She’s toured the world and shared the stage with Christian McBride, Victor Wooten, and Branford Marsalis. Her latest album, Rewind,… Read more »
Peppe is a wonderful man?a true bohemian! He goes wherever his guitar takes him.? Daniela Nardi, in an interview with Wanda Waterman Peppe Voltarelli is an Italian singer-songwriter and accordion player noted as much for his searing social commentary as for his tender tributes to the people of his region, winning his songs the label… Read more »
Mo Kenney is a young Nova Scotian singer-songwriter who produced her debut album last September and has since been touring with Joel Plaskett and The Emergency and Ron Sexsmith. The recipient and nominee of numerous prestigious awards as well as raves from critics, Mo is known for clever, insightful lyrics?often on the subject of triumphing… Read more »
Film: You Ain’t Seen Nothin? Yet (Vous n?avez encore rien vu) Director: Alain Resnais Cast: Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azema, Lambert Wilson (with Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny, and Michel Piccoli) Genre: Art House, Drama ?Orpheus with his Lute made Trees, And the Mountaine tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing… In sweet Musicke is… Read more »