107 LIVE! with Rosamunde participant Logan Smith
This week, we here at Classic 107 have been hearing about the Rosamunde Summer Music Academy and Festival.
We've welcomed distinguished guest faculty to the studio as well as a commissioned composer alongside the co-founder and artistic director.
World premiere opens Rosamunde faculty concerts
The Rosamunde Summer Academy and Festival is a cultivation and celebration of stellar string playing and musicianship.
Heart Strings: Rosamunde Summer Music Academy and Festival showcases student and faculty talent
For many people summer is a time for relaxing and enjoying the warm weather. It’s a time for perhaps relaxing and doing some summer reading or maybe heading out to the cottage; or perhaps just simply taking a walk up the street to the nearest 7-11 and picking up a Slurpee.
‘We took a French Baroque opera and covered it in honey dill sauce’: Rameau opera reimagined by MUO
Manitoba Underground Opera (MUO) has a way of reinterpreting the classics: taking lesser heard, rarely staged productions and giving them a new voice for a modern audience.
'A lasagna of bocce and song’: Flipside’s unique fundraiser
Known for innovative and adventurous programming, Winnipeg’s Flipside Opera and Art Song Collective continues to engage audiences in unique ways with their annual fundraiser taking place this weekend.
Rainbow Stage invites audiences to dive 'Under the Sea' in Kildonan Park
One of the most popular Disney musicals of all time returns to Canada’s largest open-air theatre.
Rainbow Stage presents “The Little Mermaid,” opening Thursday, August 17.
Moral Injuries: Local film maker creates love letter to Winnipeg as seen through the lens of local artist and his art
This Friday, August the 11th and this Saturday, August the 12th, there will be a very special film screening that will be taking place, which combines the two worlds of film making and art.
August Edition of What to Read with McNally Robinson Booksellers
August is most certainly here in Winnipeg. The weather is warm, the mosquitoes are out, the BDI is open and construction abounds throughout the city. With these warm summery temperatures it is the perfect time to perhaps sit on a park bench or maybe stay inside and enjoy the air conditioning and read a good book.
Chris Hall from McNalley Robison Booksellers Stopped by our Classic 107 studios to give his book selections for What to Read for August. Here are his choices:
Kick-off to 52nd Folklorama happening this weekend
Folklorama is just around the corner, and to get the community excited for the only multi-cultural festival of its kind everyone is invited to join in on the kick-off event happing on Saturday.
"It's really a good opportunity for people to come and have a little taste of the festival, a little preview," says Teresa Cotroneo, executive director of Folklorama. "We've got different performers from pavilions that are participating, which is always really cool."