107 LIVE! with bandurria player Dave Dagta and members of Musica Singers
Brought together by their love of song and passion for culture, Musica Singers end their debut season on a high note.
Coinciding with Filipino Heritage Month, “An Evening of Songs from the Philippines” features the choir plus a number of special guests performing traditional songs by celebrated contemporary and past composers.
“This concert is something like an anthology of songs from the Philippines,” says Oscar Pantaleon.
Meet the Agassiz Artist: Soprano Ellen Wieser
All this week one of the real highlights of the early summer has been happening here in Winnipeg. The Agassiz Chamber Music Festival is now on. It has been offering the best chamber music performed by some of the best musicians on the scene today.
Meet the Agassiz Artist: violist David Harding
The Agassiz Chamber Music Festival presents an outpouring of artistry as superb local and international players come together to collaborate on great chamber music.
One of this year’s return performers is violist David Harding, who has been no stranger to the festival over the years.
“I think I did the first festival in 2000,” says Harding, who returns to town for the first time in the post-pandemic years.
Meet the Agassiz Artist: the Swiss Piano Trio
The Agassiz Chamber Music Festival features brilliant local and renowned international musicians in a weeklong celebration of music-making.
This year, they welcome the award-winning Swiss Piano Trio as one of the distinguished special guests.
Sensory Party: 2024 Cluster Festival provides banquet for the eyes and the ears
Since 2010 Winnipeg’s Cluster festival has been engaging, and entertaining Winnipegger's in thoughtful and ground-breaking presentations of integrated arts that make use of dance, sound exploration, art and video all fused together.
Featuring artists of today’s generation, the festival, which happens at a variety of venues around Winnipeg, displays the new vistas that artists are exploring, all the while encouraging audience members to think, live and feel their surroundings.
Meet the Agassiz Artist: violinist Gregory Lewis
On Sunday evening, the Agassiz Chamber Music Festival kicked off their 2024 offering.
Dubbed “Sounds in the Key of Spring,” the festival features a plethora of local and international players, exploring a wide array of chamber music in its various guises, combinations and permutations.
New Voices-Fresh Thinking: Manitobans for the Arts hold their Annual General Gathering
On June 4th and 5th the Manitobans for the Arts will be holding their Annual General Gathering. Called New Voices-Fresh Thinking, the event will feature two days of learning and conversation on how artists can engage, sustain and strengthen the arts sector.
This gathering will feature a keynote address by renowned, award –winning cultural strategist Patricia Huntsman. Huntsman has worked across Canada and internationally in senior roles in the creative industry for 25 years.
Riopelle Crossroads in Time: Wag -Qaumajug opens exhibit of work created by Canadian artistic trailblazer
Starting this Saturday, June 1 and going until September 8th, the Wag-Qaumajuq is presenting a fabulous new exhibit, that showcases the work of one of the most historical and influential painters in Canadian History.
First orchestral foray for groovy Winnipeg group
Bust out your tie-dye, put a flower in your hair and boogie on down to Lutheran Church of the Cross to get groovin’ with the Winnipeg Pops Orchestra and their very special guests – the Very Groovy Things!
Performing hits of the Mamas and the Papas, plus other tunes from the 60’s, 70’s and beyond, this collaboration marks the first orchestral gig for the Very Groovy Things (VGT).