Tegan & Sara playing in Vancouver earlier this month.
Can you believe that we are already in the second half of January? Somehow, the short cold days have managed to turn into weeks, and before you know it we’ll be catching the first glimpse of spring. Before we do, though, we have heaps of shows to shelter you from the wintry storms.
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Pieta Brown, we’re delighted to report, will be joining Mark Knopfler when he comes to Massey Hall on his Get Lucky North American tour. Peita is a critically-acclaimed folk singer-songwriter who has been compared to Lucinda Williams, PJ Harvey, and Cat Power. The BBC has called her a “folk goddess and country waif,” and we can’t wait to see her in person. (Also, did you know that if you buy a pair of tickets to the show online you’ll get a free copy of Knopfler’s CD? Aren’t you glad you do now?) CONTINUE READING >
Colin James,Mark Knopfler,Mozart@254,Pieta Brown,Sinfonia Toronto,Tegan & Sara,Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Portrait of Mozart painted posthumously by Barbara Kraft, 1819.
Five years ago, when Peter Oundjian was relatively new in his position as the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director, he announced the Mozart@249 festival at the TSO’s annual season media conference. He explained that he didn’t think we had to wait until the all important 250th birthday to have an excuse to have a Mozart festival so he was going to get a head start on everybody else. It was rather endearing, although we all knew it was really just clever marketing. But who cares? What’s not to love about Mozart, especially in the dark cold days of January?
Well here we are five years later and the annual January Mozart Festival is so popular that the TSO artistic team just keep programming it – hence Mozart@254. The festival opened last night and runs until January 24 at Roy Thomson Hall and CONTINUE READING >
Mozart,Mozart Festival,Mozart@254,Roy Thomson Hall,Toronto Symphony Orchestra
