Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
Musicians truly are a rare breed. In this day and age where music is seemingly free, and pay-scale for working musicians has taken a landslide, it is inspiring to see the continued hard work and efforts that they continue in the pursuit of their art. While they work to play, and garner their earnings in […]
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up “You very, very rarely meet someone like Plant, who is still fanatical about music after forty years at the top. That’s almost unprecedented.” -Bill Flanagan Many years ago I was having a coffee with a friend of mine at a small café on Monkland Avenue in N.D.G. The waitress […]
It’s 2013 and Bands For Baskets is back to help. In conjunction with Kiwanis International and Pointe Claire’s Calistoga Grill; West-Islander Peter Angrove, Ross Griffiths and a bevy of Volunteers will once again be giving of their time and efforts, hosting the latest edition of BANDS FOR BASKETS, this being their 8th annual fund raiser to supply Christmas Baskets […]
Samantha Wexler for Curtains Up My friend invited me to go with her and a couple of other friends to see Bon Jovi last night at the Bell Centre. Being a longtime Bon Jovi fan, I was excited to see them live again; I had seen them once back in 1995 […]
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett Bonnie Raitt remembers seeing her father, the late great Broadway star John Raitt, perform in Pyjama Party on the Great White Way when she was all of five years old. “The thing I’ve taken from him was to make every night opening night,” Bonnie Raitt, now 64, says. […]
For Curtains Up by Samantha Wexler Last night was the long anticipated Sarah Brightman concert at the Bell Centre, the fourth show on the North American leg of her Dreamchaser tour, and Ms. Brightman did not disappoint. Brightman is a classical crossover soprano who […]
Mitchell Field for Curtains Up RECAP: Montreal Mid 1970’s I had received a frantic phone call from a booking agent. He needed a last minute replacement drummer for B.B. King and John Lee Hooker. Throwing my drums in a cab I rushed over to the Capital […]
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett Old-school roots reggae may be going the way of vinyl and CDs, displaced by new-school dancehall. But for international audiences raised on Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Jimmy Cliff and Toots & The Maytals, there are few performers out there still carrying the roots-reggae torch. But one of reggae’s […]
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! I’ll never forget the day: September 6th, 1983. My first rock concert. For an anxious fan barely into his teens it was a huge thrill; a monumental, influential event in a young life. That night I began down a path that encompassed my high school years and […]