Here's a concert featuring a fine local (Toronto) guitarist,
Michael Occhipinti and his brother Roberto.
Maryem and Ernie Tollar are always a joy to hear. 

** Featuring: Live painting by Elicser Elliot, Lexr and Celo // Music by Tanika Charles and Deejay L’Oqenz **

INFO
Join city builders, young people, artists, academics, councillors and mayoral candidates to determine positive steps forward for BeautifulCity.ca and learn about how to make the city budget process work for you. Open discussion will follow concerning the value of building vibrant and democratic public spaces. Moderated by: Ravi Jain (WhyNot Theatre, ArtsVote), Sabra Ripley (Community Health Advocate, HoP, B-girl) and Che Kothari (Manifesto Community Projects.)

BACKGROUND
The billboard tax has been passed but zero new money has been invested in beautifying or democratizing access to public spaces with art in the 2010 Budget. This goes against highly favourable public opinion polls by EKOS (2009) Environics (2007) and Pollara (2005) and a 4500 person petition, 60 endorsements by organizations and reams of city plans to build a successful Toronto for the long-term. Along with the Mayor, city councillors from across the political spectrum have also been very supportive of a billboard tax to fund art in committee, council and the press. Similarly, public consultations, staff and consultant’s reports stated that the purpose of the tax was to support arts and city beautification projects.

We are not really sure what happened, however the budget has not passed yet. It time to get a bit pissed — then get smart and help correct this mistake by coming to the town hall. It worked to get the tax. It might just work to take it back!

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Here's a concert I highly recommend.
I know Andy from my years at York University
when I was doing a BFA (Honors) in performance and composition.
He's a great piano player and a dedicated artist. 

Wednesday, March 3rd
12:20pm / FREE (seating limited)
Humber College
School of Creative and Performing Arts
3199 Lakeshore Blvd. W.
Toronto, ON

Crystal Magnets Piano Duo

Glass Orchestra at The Array Space – 27 Nov 09

The evening began with a workshop where about eight guests learned to play the instruments

and got a chance to improvise as an ensemble. The music they created sounded wonderful.

The band, with Eric, Rick, myself, and Paul Houle (who subbed nicely for Paul Hodge), followed, playing

two sets of some classics, and the rest created for the concert. I thought we played well, especially in the second set.

FRI. NOV. 27/09
THE GLASS ORCHESTRA – A ‘HANDS-ON’ DEMONSTRATION + CONCERT
Array Studio | 6:30 PM Lecture/Demo / 8 PM Concert | by donation
Otherworldly glassware music you’ve got to see-and-hear to believe!
* This concert is part of Array’s new Resident Studio Artists Program

Glass Orchestra features:

Rick Sacks, Eric Cadesky, Paul Hodge, Bill Parsons

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001376

Arraymusic

60 Atlantic Ave., Suite. 218

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

M6K 1X9

TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival announcement

A new year, a new concert announcement

What better way to kick off 2009 than with a TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival announcement? Gary Burton Quartet Revisited with Pat Metheny will be playing the Four Seasons Centre on Monday, June 29.

Vibraphonist Gary Burton’s legendary quartet of the 1970s was the first to introduce guitar great Pat Metheny to the world. Winner of 17 Grammy Awards, Metheny is the pre-eminent jazz guitarist who reinvented the traditional jazz guitar sound for a new generation of players. Burton, one of the progenitors of the jazz-fusion phenomenon, and Metheny will be joined by Steve Swallow and Antonio Sanchez.

www.torontojazz.com*

Contemporary Gamelan at its best.

25th Anniversary Concert, Volume 1
Monday, May 4, 2009 – 8 pm
Suites From the Past

Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan (ECCG)
• with guest artist: South Asian percussion
maestro Trichy Sankaran
• world premiere: Greenhouse Revisited
(2009) a new suite by ECCG founder,
composer, producer Jon Siddall
• world premiere: Repercussions (2009)
a new suite drawn from the 3 works
Trichy Sankaran has composed for ECCG,
arranged by Bill Parsons

25th Anniversary Concert, Volume 2
Monday, May 11, 2009 – 8 pm
Sunda Songs
Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan (ECCG)
With guest divas:
Jennifer Moore, Suba Sankaran,
and Maryem Tollar
Featuring Evergreen Club Contemporary
Gamelan’s song repertoire. Music of and
inspired by West Java.
6:30 pm — Open Workshop with ECCG and its
new community gamelan Sora Priyangan.

Evergreen Club Flyer

Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan at twenty five Wednesday, 29 April 2009 13:26 Extended Interview with Andrew Timar by Karen Ages Anniversaries are a time to look back and reflect on time spent together, or on one’s accomplishments over the years, and the Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan is doing just that. They celebrate their 25thAndrew Timar to tell me a bit about the Ensemble and his role within it. anniversary season this month, with three different concerts: May 2 at the Open Ears Festival in Kitchener, and May 4 and 11 at the Music Gallery. I asked long-time member and suling player Andrew Timar to tell me a bit about the Ensemble and his role within it. For the entire article click this link to the Collaborators page