Category: Arts
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Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival
The long-awaited live Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival presented by Rio Tinto returns June 21 to 26 at the festival’s new home, Mādahòkì Farm in Ottawa’s west end, with an exhilarating celebration of Canadian Indigenous culture. Mādahòkì Farm (formerly the Lone Star Ranch) is located on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Nation at 4420 West…
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AGO installs first-ever public art commission: a monumental new sculpture by Brian Jungen
At the corner of Dundas and McCaul streets in Toronto, Couch Monster: Sadzěʔ yaaghęhch’ill is Jungen’s first large-scale work in bronze Brian Jungen, Couch Monster: Sadzěʔ yaaghęhch’ill (2022). Bronze. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Commission, with funds from Government of Canada/Gouvernement du Canada, Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter program, The Renette…
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SMASH: Terra The Gardiner Museum Thurs., June 16, 2022
By Sally W. Events are happening again! The Gardiner Museum Toronto was definitely a happening event. The sold out fundraiser was held on Thursday, June 16 on a beautiful evening in Toronto. SMASH is the Gardiner Museum annual fundraiser which everyone looks so forward to. We’ve missed it very much these past two years! SMASH…
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Chicago’s Sarantos Is “Looking UP At The World” with the Release of New Single
Award-Winning Artist Sarantos Is “Looking UP At The World” with the Release of New Single Watch “Looking UP At The World” via YouTube Here Internationally acclaimed award-winning DIY artist Sarantos channels his signature upbeat songwriting style to tell a melancholic story about pushing through life’s physical and mental pain with the evocative new single, “Looking…
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Alt-Rockers Season Of The Senses Are “Ever”-Present With Release of New Single — Available Now!
Canadian rockers Season Of The Senses have created an alternative, fist-pumping anthem you’ll spin on repeat, in their latest offering, “Ever” — available now! The electrifying, rock and roll, synth-infused drop is a myriad of emotions ranging from the depths of the human condition to rising up and starting over. While “Ever” bursts out of…
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Releasing July 15- US & Canada- Theatrical/VOD Release-KARMALINK
KARMALINK Director: Jake Wachtel Cast: Srey Leak Chhith, Leng Heng Prak, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Cindy Sirinya Bishop, Rous Mony and Sveng Socheata. KARMALINK will be released in the US Theatrically in major cities and on VOD in the US and Canada on Friday, July 15. Theaters include: Lumiere Music Hall – Los Angeles, CA Rialto Lakeside Elmwood – Berkeley,…
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Symphonic Metal Rockers OPHELIA FALLING Are “Destroyed in Delight” with New Single
Song Arrives Ahead of Summer Tour & Alongside Cinematic New Video by Award-Winning Director Karen Lam Watch “Destroyed in Delight (Official)” via YouTube Here July 16 @ Metal Fest — Armstrong, BC July 18 @ The Blind Beggar — Calgary, AB July 20 @ The Slice — Lethbridge, AB July 21 @ Revival Music Room…
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Multi-Instrumentalist Martin Schiller Transports Listeners Back in Time with Psychedelic New Post-Jazz-Rock Single, “Future Prints” — Available Now!
Song Arrives Fresh From 2022 Album, Dreams vol. 1 Canadian multi-instrumentalist Martin Schiller takes a musical idea for an internet sketch comedy series and turns it into a psychedelic jam session, transporting listeners to a time of carpeted walls and smoke-filled rooms with the bodacious new single, “Future Prints” — available now! The song sees…
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LGBTQIA+ Pop Star ANA PAC Empowers & Inspires with “Bite The Rainbow”; Performs at Pride June 25
Watch “Bite The Rainbow (Official)” via YouTube Here Toronto dance-pop artist Ana Pac is breaking down the boxes of societal norms and showing the world its infinite and limitless possibilities with a new single, “Bite The Rainbow” — available now just in time for her to perform at Toronto’s Pride Festival on June 25. It’s a song about…
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JUNO Award-Winning Rock Band Monster Truck Release New Song“Golden Woman” First Song Release Since Inking Deal with BMG in Canada
JUNO Award-Winning Rock Band Monster Truck explode back onto the scene with their incredible new song and music video for “Golden Woman” via BMG and all streaming platforms. “Golden Woman” is a fast paced, unrelenting, rock n roll jam and marks the first release off of their highly anticipated forthcoming album and follows the band’s recent global signing with…
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Dances With Films Los Angeles Premiere of “Lodo” Friday, June 17th, 2022
“Lodo” is directed & co-written by the TellyAward-winning Argentinian & Mexican California native (co-founder of the Highland Park Independent Film Festival in East Los Angeles) Alessandro Gentile(in 2012 Gentile shot the television pilot for the Emmy-Winning “Schitt’s Creek,” “Lodo” is his directorial debut) and co-written & produced by Marita De Le Torre (“When I Grow Up,” “Botes al Amanacer” and also a co-founder of the Highland Park Independent…
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Award-Nominated Canadian Pop Singer Hannah Thomas Sets the Stage for a Free Summer of Songs with Annual Dock Music Concert Series
Watch “‘Just Sing’ Dock Mural — Featuring Hannah Thomas & Claire Scott” by Kris Von Kleist via YouTube Here Fresh off her 2022 Canadian Folk Music Award nomination for ‘Young Performer of the Year,’ Canadian pop singer Hannah Thomas sets the stage for a summer of songs in Stratford, Ontario with the return of her…
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Like a Wave of Emotional Catharsis, London, ON R&B-Pop Artist Chad Price’s New Single Captures Resilience & Self-Healing
“Broken Open” is Available Now! Canadian R&B pop artist Chad Price draws on the battles with inner demons to manifest his introspective journey of self-healing into an uplifting tale of resilience in a new single, “Broken Open” — available now. Recorded with producer Matthew Johnston, “Broken Open” is anthemic with its gospel-tinged choral background vocals,…
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“Volume 1” From Strongman Blues Remedy Feat Steve Strongman, Harrison Kennedy Release New “I Like To Ride” Video
A new blues musical collective The Strongman Blues Remedy Featuring Steve Strongman, Harrison Kennedy, Dawn Tyler Watson, Steve Marriner, Crystal Shawanda Volume 1 set for release June 17, 2022 via Stony Plain Records Watch “I Like To Ride” featuring Harrison Kennedy on YouTube MP3s, WAVs, Bio, Cover Art, Lyrics Here Readying itself as an antidote…
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The Heavyweights Brass Band Funk It Up & Never “Fake It” on Horn-tastic New Single — Available Now!
Toronto-based Horns & Grooves Quintet Also Announce 2022 Canadian Summer Tour Watch “Fake It (Official)” via YouTube Here June 11 @ Show Bateau (Northern Spirit Yacht) – Toronto, ON June 11 @ Luminato Yonge-Dundas Square – Toronto, ON June 12 @ Luminato Yonge-Dundas Square – Toronto, ON June 21 @ Mae Wilson Theatre in the…
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CMW 2022 with Nile Rogers, The Glorious Sons, Chuck D., Bif Naked, Merck Mercuriadis and more
After a hiatus of 3 years, Canadian Music Week was back with some impressive live music, conferences and lectures. It was day one of three concerts for the popular: The Glorious Sons. The band consist of: Brett Emmons, Jay Emmons, Chris Koster ,Adam Paquette and Josh Hewson. Frontman Brett Eamon barefooted across the stage and…
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Amber Bemak’s Daring Debut Feature Documentary 100 WAYS TO CROSS THE BORDER Will Have Its World Premiere at BAMcinemaFest, June 23-30, 2022
A Playful and Self-Reflexive Exploration of Mexican/Chicanx Performance Artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and his Troupe La Pocha Nostra’s Decades-Spanning Career of Radical Artistic Practice and Collaborative Performance** Filmmaker Available for Interviews **100 Ways to Cross the Border, the debut feature documentary by artist, filmmaker, and educator Amber Bemak (Two Sons and a River of Blood, Goodbye Fantasy, Borderhole), is set to have…
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Official Unofficial ‘Hot List’ for This Year’s North By Northeast Music Festival June 14-19, 2022
Full Festival General Admission Tickets On Sale For $20 Available Now athttps://www.nxne.com/ “NXNE is Toronto’s leading music event” — The Guardian With 300+ of the world’s best artists of today (and tomorrow) descending on Toronto for North by Northeast Music Festival (NXNE) next week, short-listing a must-see schedule is no feat for the weak.…
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Veteran Nova Scotia Singer-Songwriter Jeff Hope Delivers a Country Rock Kiss Off with New Single, “Goodbye Baby” — Available Now!
Watch “Goodbye Baby (Official)” via YouTube Here While analogies and metaphors can be pretty and poetic and all, sometimes you just have to tell it like it is. And there’s no mistaking that Nova Scotian singer-songwriter Jeff Hope is giving a bad relationship the hook, both literally and musically, with his new single, “Goodbye Baby”…
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Indigenous Canadian Pop-Trap Artist Mattmac Sits Down For Heart To Heart With Listeners on Newest Single, “Isolation” — Available Now
Watch “Isolation (Official)” via YouTube Here There are few things in this world as cold as isolation… And Mattmac’s ambition to bring warmth to such a dark concept is what makes his newest hard-hitting rap single, “Isolation,” so powerful — and it’s available now! As Mattmac’s music has always showcased, life isn’t always as easy…
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