During the last days I have listened to a concert with blues singer Rita Chiarelli that was available as concert on demand at the CBC (link no more valid) 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 […]
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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. (link no more valid) Forty years to the
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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) (concert no more available) 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
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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
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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
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I am just preparing some presents for Christmas and I am listening to some nice music from Canada: Noel! Noel! – The Spirit Of The Season Throughout the show four unique and dynamic performers share music that expresses their vision of Christmas. Using both personal anecdotes and songs each artist will share their experience of
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In my German blog I have already written about the Good Lovelies – three women from Toronto who play and sing. A one hour show with this trio was available as Canada Live podcast: This week, the Good Lovelies blend charming three-part harmonies with bluegrass. This Toronto trio brings folkpop and fun to Montreal. The
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This morning I listened to the newest Canda Live podcast with Lake of Stew, a six-piece acoustic string band from Montreal, Quebec. On the band homepage you can find the following text about the band and it’s music, a definition that fits very well to what I have heard from the podcast and the videos:
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On the CBC concerts on demand page currently a concert with Canadian singer/songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk was featured. I was immediatly fascinated by the performance of Chantal Kreviazuk. She has a great voice and sings the songs with a lot of power and feeling. The concert was recorded on Jun. 27, 2009 at the Jackson-Triggs Amphitheatre,
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Some days ago I have heard a song in the Canada Live Podcast that sticked to my mind. The singer is named Dan Mangan and was just elected as Artist of the Year of the XM Satellite’s Verge Music. I do especially like the end of the song, where the audience is asked to sing
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