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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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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
2018-08-179:30 pm–10:45 pm Harbourfront Centre FreeFree Co-produced with Harbourfront Centre and sponsored by TD Bank. The legendary desert blues guitar hero, whose father Ali Farka Touré performed at the WOMAD festival at Harbourfront Centre three decades ago. Malian singer, songwriter and guitarist Vieux Farka Touré captivates audiences worldwide with his dazzling speed and dexterity, and […]
2018-08-189:30 pm–10:45 pm Harbourfront Centre FreeFree Co-produced with Harbourfront Centre and sponsored by TD Bank. Presented with the support of the Consulat Général de France à Toronto. An explosive mix of cumbia, hip-hop, dancehall and more guaranteed to bring the party in their Toronto debut. Cuban singer, flautist and percussionist Yaite Ramos Rodriguez, aka La […]
2018-07-278:00 pm–10:00 pm Small World Music Centre $20 Adv / $25 Door$20 Adv / $25 Doorhttps://smallworldmusic.thundertix.com/orders/new?performance_id=2149265 Co-presentation with Beach Digital Media. Rhitom Sarkar is a Hindustani Slide Guitar player from Calcutta India. This collaboration is a fusion of Indian and North American slide styles featuring Toronto artist Michael Oesch and Sean Pinchin. Join the event […]
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2018-07-128:00 pm–1:00 am Lula Lounge $33.50$33.50https://www.picatic.com/Liniker A Polyphonic Ground Concert co-presented by Lula Music and Arts and Uma Nota Culture in association with Sarau Brasil. For the first time ever in Canada, ground-breaking and award-winning Liniker e os Caramelows direct from São Paulo, Brazil! LINIKER E OS CARAMELOWS Fronted by captivating transgender vocalist Liniker Barros, […]
2018-06-177:00 pm–9:00 pm Small World Music Centre $31$31https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/najva-ensemble-live-tickets-46203873028 Najva ensemble will be performing their new eclectic album (yet to be named) in Chahargah, Nava, Homayoun, and Shoor. In this musical journey, we have utilized both Iranian and Western instruments which makes it more different from what you’ve heard before. Najva ensemble performers : Parisa Ferdosian- […]