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Del Barber, Canadian Songbook, and Grizzly Bear play Massey Hall, This week in
The Buzz: Sept 25 – Oct 1

Posted by Stefania Paterak in  The Buzz  on  September 25, 2012

UPCOMING
While it’s still more than two weeks away, we’re super excited about our new Canadian Songbook at the Rivoli series that begins on October 10 with a feature performance from singer-songwriter, and incredible storyteller, Del Barber. The series of monthly performances at the Rivoli will give us the chance to introduce you to some musicians whom we think you should take note of now. Discovering new and emerging talent is such a special feeling, not to mention an opportunity to be able to tell your friends that you “saw them when…”

And, loyal Buzz readers, I’m pleased to tell you that we’ve got something special cooking on this series, which also features – announced so far – Jeremy Fisher, Belle Starr, Mo Kenney, and Tanika Charles, so stay tuned and let us know if you have a special musical discovery story – or someone else you think we should discover!

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Buddy Guy, CWOF, and Bettye LaVette plays The Black Keys this week in The Buzz: Sept 18-24

Posted by Stefania Paterak in  The Buzz  on  September 18, 2012

JUST ANNOUNCED
If you haven’t yet heard, Buddy Guy has confirmed that he will return to Toronto this spring! Legendary blues artist, Buddy Guy has become something of a Massey Hall institution, with this being his ninth annual appearance at the Grand Ol’ Lady of Shuter Street. Buddy Guy was also recently announced to be one of the latest recipients of Kennedy Center Honors, an award given annually for “lifetime achievement in the performing arts.” The Honors themselves will be held on December 1 and taped for a television broadcast to be aired later in December on CBS. All the details are over on the New York Times Arts Beat blog. Buddy Guy hits the Massey Hall stage on Saturday, April 20, 2012. Tickets for our FriendsFirst Members are available starting Wednesday and to the general public on Friday.

PERFORMANCES
Canada’s Walk of Fame Festival featuring Sarah McLachlan and K’NAAN (Thursday), Jann Arden (Saturday), and Johnny Reid (Sunday): The third annual iteration of the Festival returns to Toronto this week and includes three concerts at Massey Hall. If you aren’t familiar with the Canada’s Walk of Fame, you can read all about its history here and come check it out next time you’re in the Roy Thomson Hall neighbourhood. The organization celebrates Canadians “who have excelled in music, sport, film, television, as well as the literary, visual, performing arts, science and innovation.” Over the course of this week, performances at Massey Hall include Sarah McLachlan, K’Naan, Jann Arden, and Johnny Reid (who just won Fans’ Choice Award at the CCMAs for the fourth time in a row – you can see him perform at the Awards show here).

Joe Rogan (Friday): Joe Rogan returns to Massey Hall hosted by Just for Laughs. Rogan, known for his ‘colour commentary’ during Ultimate Fighting Championship games and as the host of Fear Factor, is one funny fellow and comes to Toronto to share with us, CONTINUE READING >

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TIFF, Raffi, and the coal-miner’s daughter this week in The Buzz: September 11-17

Posted by Stefania Paterak in  The Buzz  on  September 11, 2012

JUST ANNOUNCED
In case you haven’t heard, the iconic family entertainer, Raffi, has announced he’ll be hitting the Roy Thomson Hall stage not once, but twice! Concerts will take place on Sunday, December 2 at 2pm and 4:30pm. Tickets are currently available for the 2pm concert; tickets for the 4:30pm concert will be available to FriendsFirst tomorrow (Wednesday) at 10am and to the general public this Friday at 10am.

PERFORMANCES
TIFF (various Gala screenings September 11 – 15): As you probably know, TIFF continues this week with more screenings at Roy Thomson Hall and around the city and the media reporting is extensive; you can check out continued coverage in the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, National Post, the Toronto Sun, and pretty much every media publication ever.

Loretta Lynn (Saturday): The original coal-miner’s daughter herself, Loretta Lynn, will be performing at Massey Hall this Saturday. CONTINUE READING >

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From Whitehorse to Chilly Gonzales, Feist, Beck, to The Boss – Reading and Listening Notes this week in The Buzz: Aug 21-27

Posted by Stephen McGrath in  The Buzz  on  August 21, 2012

Our 2012|13 Season is officially off and running with all tickets now on sale! For a sample of some of what our Season has to offer, check out this YouTube playlist and hopefully listen to an old favourite or discover something new. Let us know what you think.

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Feist premiered her new “Anti-Pioneer” (embedded above) video as well, you can watch her and band perform in 3D here.

It was announced that one of our favourites, Whitehorse, will not only have their Massey Hall debut this March but their new album The Fate of the World Depends on This Kiss will release on Aug 28. Whitehorse have posted the lead off track “Achilles’ Desire,” have a listen here.

We’re all pretty excited about Ira Glass, host of This American Life, coming to Massey Hall on Oct 27. This event, titled Reinventing Radio, should prove to be a unique and insightful look into one of the most unique programs in the fields of journalism and storytelling by one of the most engaging personalities in said fields. Sadly, the program recently lost a key contributor, Canadian-born David Rakoff. TAL paid tribute to David this past week by airing some of his most memorable contributions. Have a listen This American Life – David Rakoff (1964-2012) - particularly to the “Who’s Canadian?” segment.

Here is a great read about Bruce Sprinsgsteen in The New Yorker.

If you hadn’t already heard about this, Beck has new music coming and it’s not what you expect!

New (great!) snippet of a Bob Dylan tune from his forthcoming album The Tempest

Grizzly Bear (who perform at Massey Hall on September 26) have been sharing some new tracks from their forthcoming album. Check out “Yet Again” and “Sleeping Ute” for a flavor of the new record.

Watch Norah Jones on CBC Q (performance here) and (interview here)

Jenn Grant (who co-headlines Winter Garden Theatre with Cuff The Duke this November) and Canadian author Craig Davidson spend some time chatting for the CBC Music feature Words & Music.

Animal Collective are streaming their forthcoming album in its entirety complete with videos.

Lastly, we’ll leave you with this sneak peek of the highly anticipated new album from Chilly Gonzales (who performs at Winter Garden Theatre on November 8) Solo Piano II. Have a listen:

 

This week’s edition of The Buzz was compiled by Wes Doerksen and Stephen McGrath

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Etheridge returns to Massey Hall and Lot’s of fun audio files this week in The Buzz: Aug 8-13

Posted by Stefania Paterak in  The Buzz  on  August 8, 2012

It’s that time of year again – as backpacks and pencil crayons take up store shelves, so too do we get super excited for our big Season Announcement. This year we’ll be announcing over sixty performances over a variety of genres in a number of different venues. The announcement takes place next Monday, August 13 – so stay tuned!

 

JUST ANNOUNCED
Yesterday, we announced that Melissa Etheridge will be hitting the Massey Hall stage on November 7 in support of her forthcoming album 4th Street Feeling. According to Ms. Etheridge’s website, a pre-sale for the new album started yesterday and the first single “Falling Up” is now available for sale – you can see a video of a live session and chat with the star embedded above. Tickets go on sale for FriendsFirst members today and to the general public on Friday.

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This is some pretty special stuff – Polaris Music Prize this past week introduced the Scion Split 7” Series. “Purchase any one of the ten 2012 Polaris Music Prize Short List artists’ albums (cd or vinyl) at any of the participating retailers… and you will be given a surprise split 7”. The instantly collectible unmarked limited edition 7” will feature one Short List artist on each side.” But wait, there’s more! Willy Wonka styles, there are 5 “golden tickets” to the September 24 Polaris Gala “randomly distributed inside the split 7” packages.” All the details (and the obligatory fine print) are over on the Polaris Music Prize site. Good luck!

And with each Polaris season comes the fun of the Shadow Polaris over at nxew.ca. Voting for the band that should be bestowed with this honour is open to the general public over at nxew.ca now – voting for the Long List stage closes August 31.

In this recent video, Fran Lebowitz (who we present In Conversation at Massey Hall on November 2) discusses city building in her beloved New York City and her very opinionated thoughts on NYU, Bloomberg, and neighbourhoods.

Feist and Mastodon have reunited forces again with this interactive video (following up from their Record Store Day collaborative release). Choose your own Feistodon adventure here.

AUDIO-FILE
Drake, who took Toronto by storm this weekend at his own OVO fest, recently put this track online: “Enough Said” by Aaliyah, featuring Drake – billing which provides an interesting, if subtle, commentary on sampling, homage, and crediting.

Jason Collett’s new tune, “I Wanna Rob a Bank,” makes its way to this video – and free download of the track is available here.

NPR has a live recording of Sigur Ros’ recent performance in Brooklyn – you can listen to the nearly two hour audio-stream and check out pics from the concert here.

Grizzly Bear, who perform at Massey Hall in September, have just released a new track, “Yet Again.” Spinner has the details (and the song) here.

Tom Waits premiered a new (and surreal) video for his track “Hell Broke Luce” yesterday and you can watch it here.

Just because I’m a superfan of Rumours and totally dug the Rave on Buddy Holly compilation from last year, I had to bring this one to your attention: Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac. NPR First Listen has the full 17 tracks from the likes of Best Coast, The New Pornographers, Marianne Faithfull, Lykke Li, and MGMT (among others) here.

 

Stefania Paterak is Programming Associate at Massey Hall & Roy Thomson Hall

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Conor Oberst leads this week’s Massey Hall blog in The Buzz: July 17-24

Posted by Stefania Paterak in  The Buzz  on  July 16, 2012

JUST ANNOUNCED
If you haven’t heard already, Conor Oberst is coming to Massey Hall this December for a feature performance. Oberst, best known for his work with Bright Eyes but was also a part of indie supergroup, Monsters of Folk (who performed at Massey Hall in recent years), has been called “rock’s boy genius” by Rolling Stone – not a bad compliment at all. Tickets are on sale now at the event link above and we’ve included the video for “Shell Games” the first single from Bright Eyes’ most recent album The People’s Key for your viewing pleasure.

MISSING LINKS
The Toronto Star has an article about getting your kids engaged in classical music including great tips like being earnest about being sincere, honest, concise, and of course diversifying by showcasing both recorded and live music.

Speaking of being concise, the CBC has an excellent article outlining the latest Copyright rulings and what it means for consumers, artists, and students. You can read up here.

Chrome Waves has Grizzly Bear CONTINUE READING >

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Grizzly Bear album art, Royal Wood’s new album, 41 Pianos, & a guide to Earbud knots
This week in The Buzz: July 10 – 16

Posted by Stefania Paterak in  The Buzz  on  July 10, 2012

MISSING LINKS
Royal Wood’s new album, We Were Born to Glory, drops today (July 10). CBC Music has a blog post from the dapper songwriter on how he writes – read all about it here. You can listen to the first single, “Not Giving Up” in the embedded video above.

And Grizzly Bear (who perform at Massey Hall on September 26) just announced the title of their new album and Pitchfork is showcasing the cover art. The album, called Shields, is due out September 18.

Apparently this has already made the rounds, but it’s the first I’m seeing it so perhaps it’s new to you too – CONTINUE READING >

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Grizzly Bear, Dala, Neil Young, and Listen to new Metric, All in The Buzz: June 12-18

Posted by Stefania Paterak in  The Buzz  on  June 12, 2012

JUST ANNOUNCED
Didn’t get tickets to the sold out performance by Dala on Friday (or saw them and need to see them again)? Don’t you fret – we have just the thing for you! Just last week we announced that the lovely Dala will be returning to our stages with a performance at the Winter Garden Theatre. All the details are here and tickets are on sale now.

We also announced a performance from Grizzly Bear at Massey Hall this September on the heels of their forthcoming release (their first in three years). Paste magazine has all the details on the album and the tour, and tickets for this show are also on sale now.

PERFORMANCES
Kristin Chenoweth (Tuesday): Kristin Chenoweth hits the Massey Hall stage tonight with a set list that promises songs from her latest album, her Broadway career, and her previous recurring guest role on Glee. The National Post boasts that the show is one of the five things to do this week. If you’re biding your time until this evening, get ready by checking out some clips featuring Chenoweth as the feisty Carlene on her new show GCB.

Love Over and Over – The Songs of Kate McGarrigle (Friday): Presented by Luminato, this special concert at Massey Hall will celebrate the life of Kate McGarrigle featuring her friends, family, and admirers. The concert will feature appearances by the likes of fans Emmylou Harris, Bruce Cockburn, her sisters Anna and Jane, and children Rufus and Martha Wainwright. For more on both Kate & Anna McGarrigle, you can check out their site here.

The Good Lovelies (Saturday): The Good Lovelies arrive at Glenn Gould Studio this weekend with a performance that is sure to please. You can check out a substantial playlist on CBC Music featuring songs from a variety of their records including from latest Let the Rain Fall to their holiday album Under the Mistletoe. You can also review a number of delightful videos on their site. CONTINUE READING >

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