Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
Abby Elizabeth Schachter for Curtains Up Pup never disappoints. Seriously, this band never ceases to amaze me. What did surprise me was that the December 1st Montreal show hosted by BSTB (Blue Skies Turn Black) was sold out both online and at the door. I had no idea that this post punk Ontario band had […]
Blue and Lonesome is an album of old blues covers which is pretty much what the Rolling Stones did at the start of their career. This means the band has finally come full circle in doing what they do best and that’s playing the blues. This is certainly the purest sounding Stones album since their […]
No city is lit up and festive quite like sparkling Montreal during the holiday season, not even New York City. Here are some Montreal holiday-themed highlights for arts and culture fans, families, indoors and outdoors, many of them free. Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal’s famed production of The Nutcracker returns to Salle Wilfred-Pelletier for the 53rd […]
“I was doing what needed to be done on behalf of the guys, but I didn’t want to be called the leader any more than Richard wanted to be referred to as the lead singer. Ours was an equal playing field, with each person holding up his end and doing what he could for the […]
we have a whole new Lady Gaga that is grounded in family, loss, and friendship delivering her most personal, deepest and most authentic album to date.
The new General Director of the Opéra de Montréal, Patrick Corrigan, fresh from a 20-year stint at the Pacific Opera Victoria where he was CEO, is thrilled to be back in his hometown of Montreal. “I’m the kind of guy who stands outside Place des Arts and dreams of being inside,” says the proudly bilingual […]
Abby Schachter for Curtains Up “They don’t want to care about the Century of American and British policy that led to the mess the world is in. They have so much information at their fingertips but they just want to tune it out and get on with socializing and worrying about their own little […]
Does real life inspire fiction or is it the other way around? The musical “A Song of Fiction” is a tender and humourous story about the agonies of the creative process and where the inspiration can arise. It is a musical-within-a-musical as the characters play out in simultaneously in two different settings. Set in an […]
Ron : Larry, it was great seeing STYX in Malone which was your first time playing there. How was it for you guys? Gowan : Yeah well I didn’t realize how close it was to the Canadian border. I heard voices in the audience speaking french and figured a lot of people from Quebec […]
