Young violinist, Claire Bergen, lived on the edge of Boissevain. The wind came across the fields like a tired old hymn and nothing rushed, well maybe the clouds. One day, […]

There was a musician named David Klein. He could play melodies that felt older than his hands. When he played alone, it was a little supernatural. Candles trembled. The cat […]

Neil, who played a Djembe (with brushes). Lenny, sang in English but dreamed in French. And Mira, played an accordion drone like a kettle whistling musically. There were three of […]

In a cedar-scented cabin tucked into the misty forests of British Columbia, Bill Kozinski, wanted to do some good in the world. Kozinski was a drop-out from Simon Fraser’s Beedie […]

The concert was scheduled at the Bram Taylor Green, a granite box with velvet seats and good acoustics but bad parking. Julian Wong, the pianist, was known only to a […]

One afternoon, while the orchestra violins tuned, Chad the oboist turned to Berta, who was polishing her flute with a cloth that had once been a scarf. “It’s all over,” […]

Three musicians, Alex, Georgia, and Ty, traveled from Guelph to Montreal, hoping to record the album they’d been imagining for years. They had songs. They had time. They almost had […]

In the beginning, Jonah and Avery sang only for protest marches and basements where rent parties ruled. They called themselves Black Lantern. They wrote songs that detonated. They had rules.No […]

The gallery was small, near the Black Sheep Inn. Not much more than a room with windows, above a bakery in Wakefield, Quebec. Word had spread: a retrospective of Jay […]

On the ferry to Salt Spring Island, with the gulls screaming like unpaid interns and the rain politely refusing to stop, Halid Frochill sat in the galley with a soy […]