During the last days I have listened to a concert with blues singer Rita Chiarelli that is available as concert on demand at the CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/cod/concerts/20100122ritac Rita Chiarelli at the Empress Theatre Rita Chiarelli uses her amazing 3-octave voice to belt, to croon and to tell stories. She’s won multiple Maple Blues awards, a Juno [...]
I have just listened to the Art of Time Ensemble: Abbey Road – another great concert of the CBC concerts on demand. If you love the original album by the Beatles, you will also like this concert – a great concert with so much energy – incredible. http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/cod/concerts/20090927abbey Forty years to the day after the [...]
A mix of mainly bluegrass and some other styles is available as a concert on demand of the CBC: Concert on Demand Lickin’ Good Fried with Andrew Collins (mandolin): http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/cod/concerts/20091103lickn The band describes itsself on their homepage http://www.lickingoodfried.com/ as The Scrappiest Country Band in Toronto and plays tasty country music. Singer Alex Pangman is happy [...]
Once again I have discovered a fantastic concert with guitar music. Pavlo, Rik Emmett und Oscar Lopez – the P.R.O. guitar trio – have performed this concert on February, 21st at the L’Astral in Montréal Three master players collaborate to form an acoustic trio of passionate, fiery guitars. Pavlo, Rik Emmett and Oscar Lopez have [...]
For this weekend I would like to recommend another Canada Live podcast. The podcast of January 15th is dedicated to Colin James, it was recorded in Vancouver, where the winter olympics were opened today. I liked this concert very much, I am just listening to it for the second time. Colin plays fantastic on his [...]