Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for April 2019: MUSIC Many top touring acts headline various Montreal concert venues this month. Highlights include Ariana Grande at the Bell Centre on April 1, Brit Floyd at Salle Wilfred-Pelletier on April 6; The Tea Party at MTELUS on April 12, the legendary Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of […]
Steve Hill is one of Canada’s most widely-revered blues-rock musicians. He has won Junos, Maple Blues awards, and sells out concerts across the country. In short, Hill is a legend in the Great White North, and he returns to headline Club Soda in Montreal on March 16. Curtains Up: It’s such a pleasure to speak with […]
Actor-singer Andrew Tebo never thought he’d go into theatre, let alone end up having an impressive resume of Broadway shows. He attended a high school that encouraged sports, glee club, academics and theatre. Since he always loved talking and being in front of people, he studied public relations at university where one day he auditioned for a […]
Foreigner bassist Jeff Pilson came to worldwide success and prominence in the 80s playing with the hard rock band Dokken. After a few more projects Jeff joined up with top metal vocalist Dio until 2004. He also had a brief acting gig in the Mark Wahlberg film Rock Star before becoming a member of the classic […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for March 2019: MUSIC Many top touring acts headline various Montreal concert venues this month. Highlights include Mumford & Sons (March 4), American rapper Travis Scott: Astroworld (March 5), Weezer & Pixies (March 13), KISS (March 19) and Muse (March 30), all at the Bell Centre. Over […]
Calgarian Indie folk band Rueben and the Dark are on their current tour of Ontario and Quebec in support of their latest release, Arms of a Dream. Vocalist Reuben Bullock was kind enough to talk with me this week while on the road. It’s very rare that I get to speak with someone who’s inspiration […]
Boom X is a highly entertaining and touching trip through the lives of Generation X. Rick Miller presents his one-man follow-up to Boom with a journey that is part hilarious nostalgia and part poignant reflection on the growing pains of the generation following the Boomers. It is fun, rousing, and thoughtful. With interviews of four […]
Is there any difference in how a ruler wields power in their kingdom and in their marriages? Should the wife behave as a partner or as a subject? How much control can she enjoy? The Last Wife is a modern feminist re-telling of King Henry VIII’s marriage to his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, who survived […]
The Canadian Strange Animal who has a Criminal Mind, Lawrence Gowan will be doing a tour this week in Quebec and Ontario. Gowan, of course, scored hit songs and albums one after another in the ’80s and early ’90s. Thanks to an opening slot for Styx at the Bell Centre in Montreal he was then […]
Curtains Up interview with folk hero and pop icon Buffy Sainte-Marie I have interviewed everybody from Cher to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and I rarely get nervous. But when I called up folk hero and pop icon Buffy Sainte-Marie at her home in Hawaii last week, I had the butterflies. That’s because Sainte-Marie has […]