Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
Carolyn Fe is one of Montreal’s original Renaissance women. She began her career as a contemporary dancer before acting in a variety of theatrical productions, TV and movie spots. Then she found her true voice singing jazz and blues in nightclubs and at festivals across Canada. I like to say blues icon Big Mama Thornton passed the […]
I wish I had had the opportunity to introduce pop icon Joan Rivers to Eva Blue. I knew Ms. Rivers very well for many years, she was a true professional who adored a great photographer. And workaholic Eva is quite possibly the hardest-working photographer in Montreal, who has snapped incredible portraits of everybody from Barack […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for March 2020: MUSIC The Montreal concert scene heats up again with American folk-rock band The Lumineers at the Bell Centre (March 6); Italian superstar Eros Ramazzotti at Place Bell on March 9; the Subtronics (March 14) and Keane (March 24) at MTELUS; Dweezil Zappa (March 18) and Matthew […]
It’s a great Canadian story: Calgary’s Annerin Theatricals recruited a superb all-Canadian cast to star in the current North American tour of the blockbuster We Will Rock You musical based on iconic rock band Queen’s greatest hits. Though it initially got mixed reviews when it debuted in 2002, the original West End production ran for […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for January 2020: MUSIC Following the holiday season, the Montreal concert scene is starting to heat up again. Highlights include the only Canadian stop of famed American musician and conductor Damien Sneed’s North American tour of We Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. which […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for the second half of December 2019: MUSIC Montreal-born, L.A.-based music legend Andy Kim found fame when he wrote How’d We Ever Get This Way?, the first of nine Billboard Top 40 hits, including the No. 1 songs Rock Me Gently and Sugar, Sugar. Kim headlines his sixth annual […]
With just $40 in his pockets, Montrealer Andy Kim headed to New York City at age 16 and found fame when he wrote How’d We Ever Get This Way?, the first of nine Billboard Top 40 hits, including the No. 1 songs Rock Me Gently and Sugar, Sugar, one of Billboard’s “Greatest Songs of All […]
Montreal audiences will get an authentic taste of Broadway when veteran actor Andrew Samonsky co-stars in the touring production of the smash-hit musical Come From Away at Place des Arts. Samonsky has appeared on Broadway as Neville Landless in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Kenneth Ormisten in Scandalous, and Lt. Cable in the Tony award-winning revival of South […]
Israeli superstar Idan Raichel has headlined many of the world’s most prestigious venues, including the Apollo Theater, Radio City Music Hall, the Sydney Opera House, Zenith in Paris and London’s Royal Albert Hall. The famed world-music multi-instrumentalist has also collaborated with some of the world’s best-loved musicians, such as American pop stars India.Arie, Dave Matthews […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for October 2019: MUSIC Many top touring acts headline various Montreal concert venues this month. At the Bell Centre, acts include The Chainsmokers (October 9) and the hugely popular Australian Pink Floyd Show (October 11). Other entertainers headlining in Montreal include Australian singer-songwriter Dean Lewis (October 4), […]