Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
Now in its 29th year, the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival showcased its local programming at Club Soda on Monday evening. Throughout the three-hour showcase, 63 companies each had two minutes to promote their show on stage. The Fringe’s annual programming is selected entirely by lottery with no restrictions on what can be performed by festival […]
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 […]
If you are not sure what show(s) to see at this year’s 2018 Just For Laughs Festival the best thing you can do is attend the Ethnic Show. The great thing about the Ethnic show is not just in the diversity of its acts but in the diversity of its comedy. If you don’t particularly […]
Comedian Orny Adams took some time out of his busy schedule to give me a call, and discuss his upcoming run with the Ethnic Show at Montreal’s Just For laughs from July 11th until the 26th. He’s not just another comic on the bill he’s a very special guest because Orny Adams is a very […]
Carvin Jones Band is bringing the ultimate guitar experience to Club Soda this Thursday. If you don’t know Carvin Jones yet, you surely will. He’s been named one of the top 50 blues guitarists in the world. Carvin Jones will not be along on stage alone as he rounds out his trio with Mario Ciancarella on […]
It was so nice to have two 80’s artists Midge Ure and Paul Young bring their Soundtrack of Your Life Tour to Montreal, especially since both have always had that sort of ‘niceness’ attached to their careers personally and professionally. After being a member of Thin Lizzy, Midge Ure became the leader of 80’s new […]
Ongoing Van Gogh to Kandinsky: From Impressionism to Expressionism, 1900-1914, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts until January 25, 2015 http://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/on-view/vangogh-kandinsky/ Les Belles Soeurs: The Musical at the Segal Centre until November 9, 2014 http://www.segalcentre.org/whats-on/upcoming-events/theatre-3/segal-theatre/belles-soeurs-the-musical/ Gardens of Light at the Botanical Gardens until November 2, 2014 http://calendrier.espacepourlavie.ca/gardens-of-light Festivale du Nouveau Cinéma until October 19, […]
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett When Africa’s iconic roots-reggae legend Alpha Blondy returned home to Ivory Coast in 2011, the post-election violence in that country had spread to the political capital, Yamoussoukro, as well as Ivory Coast’s commercial capital, Abidjan, where security forces loyal to incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo were fighting the supporters […]
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up! @bugsburnett British alt-rock musician and left-wing activist Billy Bragg formed the punk rock band Riff Raff in 1977 and was touring London’s pubs and clubs when one day, in the spring of 1978, he joined 100,000 people in the first-ever Rock Against Racism march from Trafalgar Square to East […]