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Like a hobo from a broken home, nothing has stopped Charlie Winston, the Brit singer songwriter who recently won the European Border Breakers Award for Best Best UK artist . (I think that translates to the song charted at #1...
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All these great Irish bands -- The Wolfe Tones, the Clancy Brothers, the Dubliners, The Pogues -- share one thing. They've all covered songs by the great Irish songwriter, Delia Murphy, a folksinger herself sometimes called just 'Murphs.' (And more...
Continue reading "The Blackbird: The Life And Legacy Of Delia Murphy"
It's a celebration of new creations along with old masterworks this week on In Concert. We'll join the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for its 2010 New Creations festival, with works by leading North American composers conducted by music director Peter Oundjian....
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Mark Samples and Zach Wallmark: they're a pair of grad students in Musicology, and they've taken a page from the book and movie Julie and Julia (where a woman cooks her way through every recipe in Julia Child's "Mastering the...
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What if you were an opera singer who dreamed of singing at The Met, and then when you finally got the big break, it was as....a nose. Such is the lot of Calgary-born tenor Gordon Gietz, who is in the...
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