Video Games Live

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NEW ANNOUNCES

Video Games Live will be stopping into Massey Hall in May for their third appearance there. The concert melds live renditions of the music from video games along side perfectly synchronized video clips – video games and franchises to be live include childhood faves like Mario, Zelda, and Sonic, arcade classics like Frogger and Space Invaders, and more recent hits like Rainbow Six and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The Globe and Mail recently reviewed Video Games Live’s DVD release “Video Games Live: Level 2” very favourably indeed. Even PBS thinks it’s totally awesome.

And just last night we announced that John Mellencamp will be performing not one, but two nights at Massey Hall. Tickets for the second performance on February 10 go on sale to our FriendsFirst members Wednesday and to the public on Friday. Happy Tuesday!

PERFORMANCES

“The Seasons Project,” Venice Baroque Orchestra & Robert McDuffie (Tonight, Tuesday): For an introduction to what this evening holds check out this podcast by Soundboard guest contributor Rick Phillips. Last year, Philip Glass’ The American Four Seasons, a co-commissioned project of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, premiered at Roy Thomson Hall. Now the piece returns to our stage, this time matched against its inspiration, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, and performed by the Venice Baroque Orchestra.

CBC Song Quest (Tonight, Tuesday): Cool beans! If you didn’t get a chance to hear the full versions of the songs on CBC Radio 2’s Drive on Friday afternoon, you can now hear samples of all of the final tracks from this year’s Great Canadian Song Quest including from Hannah Georgas (who performs as special guest with Royal Wood this November). Sound bytes not enough? I should hope not. This evening at Glenn Gould Studio, you can witness all thirteen artists who participated in this now annual project, perform their newly created odes to Canadian roads.

Black Crowes (Wednesday): Black Crowes hit the stage at Massey Hall on Wednesday of this week with a full acoustic set followed by a full electric set. This is the band’s last tour for quite some time; Rolling Stone uses the term “indefinite hiatus” describing what’s next for the band after this tour and exclaims “… the Crowes are leaving at a peak. See them while you can.”

Classic Albums Live: The Beatles, The White Album (Friday): If you didn’t read Classic Albums Live founder Craig Martin’s post on why The White Album is the Beatles’ best, then you should. Classic Albums Live has perfected the art of perfection – recreating albums (classic ones, naturally), note for note, cut for cut. On Friday night, they take over Massey Hall with live renditions of your white album favourites including “Blackbird,” “Helter Skelter,” and “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” (which you may recall I recently declared was a must-have on my Road Trip Mix-tape.)

In related news, the first London home in which John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived together received an CONTINUE READING >

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