2018-08-1110:00 pm–3:00 am 191 Geary Avenue $10 Adv / $15 Doorhttps://www.picatic.com/RPM The Toronto-based, global Indigenous music platform, label, and agency, Revolutions Per Minute, is coming up on the 2-year anniversary of RPM Records—the world’s first contemporary Indigenous music label—and they’re throwing a huge party to celebrate the next phase of the next wave. Featuring music […]
Category: 2018
Polyphonic Ground Concert: Ariko / Gaelynn Lea Album Release
2018-09-258:00 pm–10:00 pm Small World Music Centre $20 Adv / $25 Door$20 Adv / $25 Doorhttps://www.picatic.com/GaelynnLea Polyphonic Ground concert co-presented with World Fiddle Day Toronto. NPR Music’s 2016 Tiny Desk Contest winner Gaelynn Lea Music returns to Toronto for an intimate album release concert under the auspices of Polyphonic Ground. The co-presentation with World Fiddle […]
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Azadoota (Assyria/Australia)
Assyrian-Australian band Azadoota’s Canadian debut […]
Film: Chavela
2018-08-193:00 pm–4:00 pm Harbourfront Centre, Studio Theatre freefreehttps://www.picatic.com/SWMF18_Chavela Co-produced with Harbourfront Centre and sponsored by TD Bank, the Small World Music Festival Film Program is curated by Marc Glassman. Chavela (Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi — USA, 2017 (93 min)) Through its lyrical structure, Chavela takes viewers on an evocative, thought-provoking journey through the iconoclastic life […]
Film: Éthiopiques – Revolt of the Soul
2018-08-191:00 pm–2:00 pm Harbourfront Centre, Studio Theatre freefreehttps://www.picatic.com/SWMF18_Ethiopiques Co-produced with Harbourfront Centre and sponsored by TD Bank, the Small World Music Festival Film Program is curated by Marc Glassman. Éthiopiques – Revolt of the Soul (Maciek Bochniak — Poland, Germany, 2017) In 1997, the Western world was first introduced to the rich musical history of […]
DJ Lag (South Africa) – Small World Music Festival Afterparty
2018-08-1811:00 pm–3:00 am Luanda House $15 Adv / $20 Door$15 Adv / $20 Doorhttps://www.picatic.com/DJLAG Co-produced with Harbourfront Centre and sponsored by TD Bank and Lagunitas IPA. Presented in partnership with The Academy Presents and Wintor Massiv. History will remember DJ LAG GQOMking as a pioneer who propelled the quintessentially Durban Gqom sound beyond the confines […]
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Sahba Motallebi and Naghmeh Farahmand (Iran / US / Canada)
2018-08-186:00 pm–7:30 pm Harbourfront Centre, Studio Theatre $42.50$42.50http://my.harbourfrontcentre.com/single/SelectSeating.aspx?p=32984 Co-produced with Harbourfront Centre and sponsored by TD Bank. Presented in association with Link Music Lab. Two remarkable rising stars of Persian classical music, among the few women performing it, modern tar and setar virtuoso Sahba Motallebi and renowned percussionist Naghmeh Farahmand. An internationally acclaimed virtuoso on […]
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Kalà scima (Italy)
2018-08-188:00 pm–9:00 pm Harbourfront Centre FreeFree Co-produced with Harbourfront Centre and sponsored by TD Bank. Presented with the support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto. Rocking the ancient trance rhythms of Tarantella squarely into the 21st Century. One of Italy’s hottest bands, the international acclaimed group meshes the ancient traditional ritual dance music of […]
Daraa Tribes (Morocco)
2018-08-178:00 pm–9:00 pm Harbourfront Centre FreeFree Co-produced with Harbourfront Centre and sponsored by TD Bank. Co-presented with Marchande d’idées interculturelles. Stirring rhythms and voices of a desert oasis in their Toronto debut. Daraa Tribes presents a fusion of ancestral tribal music and Saharan blues from the oasis town of Tagounite in the Draâ River Valley […]
Las Cafeteras (USA)
2018-08-195:30 pm–7:00 pm Harbourfront Centre FreeFree Co-produced with Harbourfront Centre and sponsored by TD Bank. Pounding Afro-Mexican rhythms with an LA-alternative edge and political message to close out the festival. Las Cafeteras are Native and migrant children who are remixing roots music and telling modern day stories with what LA Times has called a “uniquely […]