New music, Ho!
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The 2010 Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival is set to kick off this Saturday. In anticipation, the Manitoban's John Herbert Cunningham spoke with WSO composer-in-residence, Vincent Ho, about his impact on the NMF...
CD review – Will Bonness “Subtle Fire”
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Jazz pianist Will Bonness is one of the young lions of the up-and-coming Winnipeg musicians that have arrived as a result of the U of M school of music’s jazz studies program.
It is...
Top Notch
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Alright, then. The Churchill Fest has begun, as announced by the confusion, laughter and stunned silence of the packed house in attendance on opening night of the Tom Hendry Theatre’s performance of one of...
Everybody in the theatre getting tipsy
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The costumes are outlandish, the cast even more so — welcome to the 1920s and the case of The Drowsy Chaperone. It’s about the corniest thing you’ll ever likely experience — which means, in...
CD Review – Trio Bembe “Trio Bembe”
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Winnipeg’s Latin Jazz scene is an incestuous family, with the same names appearing under different leadership under different band names. Trio Bembe is no exception. Amber Epp, of In Rhythm renown, leads the group....
Opera, LOL
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I'm gonna get that waaaabbit” is what Elmer Fudd sang to the Overture of Gioachino Rossin's The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) as he was out hunting Bugs Bunny. But, in truth,...
Serving up laughs with a greasy spoon
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What play won the 1991 Canadian Authors Award for Drama? If you were to respond, Kelly Rebar's Bordertown Café, you’d be right.
But why is it being revived at Prairie Theatre Exchange now? If...
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