The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma

2015-09-158:00 pm Massey Hall $59.50 – $199.50http://tickets.masseyhallroythomsonhall.com/single/SYOS.aspx?p=2055&_ga=1.196426540.1070824576.1441903007 Massey Hall presents The coming together of different cultures is part of our city’s everyday reality, but the way The Silk Road Ensemble embodies that idea, and demonstrates how those cultures are, and can be, connected, is extremely rare. The group, led by celebrated cellist, Yo-Yo Ma, unites […]

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The Fugitive Minds Album Release

2015-09-109:00 pm Revival Bar General Admission $10http://www.ticketweb.ca/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=6149385 The Fugitive Minds Album Release w/ The Human Rights & The Chronicles Dub Trio Revival Bar NuFunk Records proudly presentsThe Fugitive Minds, a Toronto based Roots Reggae and Afrobeat band who play original politically and spiritually charged music along with some Reggae and Afrobeat classics’. The band is […]

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Song in a Time of No Song: A celebration of Jeff Bien’s music and poetry

2015-09-238:15 pm Small World Music Centre FREEhttp://music.cbc.ca/#!/artists/Jeff-Bien Song in a Time of No Song: A celebration of Jeff Bien’s music and new collection of poetry feat Mercan Dede, with a host of Canada’s finest musicians and writers. Guests include: Barry Callaghan, George Elliott Clarke, A.F. Moritz, Rafi Aaron, Diana Kuprel, Robert Priest, George Koller, Rick […]

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SULTANS OF STRING featuring sitar master ANWAR KHURSHID

October 30, 20158:00 pm Trinity-St Pauls United Church $20 Adv // $25 Doorhttp://sultans-of-string2015.eventbrite.com 2015 JUNO Award Nominees and 2012 Canadian Folk Music Award winners SULTANS OF STRING, are releasing their fifth CD… Subcontinental Drift… with sitar virtuoso ANWAR KHURSHID, Sultans of String thrill their audiences with their global sonic tapestry of Spanish Flamenco, Arabic folk, […]

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Jane Bunnett & Maqueque and Emeline Michel

2015-10-248:00 pm Koerner Hall Starting at $50https://tickets.rcmusic.ca/public/hall.asp?event=1506 For more than 30 years, celebrated Canadian flutist and saxophonist Jane Bunnett has been bridging the gulf between Cuba and North America, introducing jazz audiences to some of the finest musicians that the island has to offer. Now, with her new sextet Maqueque, she introduces the world to […]

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Jazz Night with Vandana Vishwas

2015-10-239:00 pm Hart House FREEhttp://harthouse.ca/events/jazz-night-vandana-vishwas/ Vandana Vishwas Details: Winner of US Indies Vox-Pop for best World song, Mississauga Arts Council’s Marty award for Performing Arts, Toronto Exclusive Magazine’s Toronto Best World CD award, Woman Hero award by Indo-Canadian Arts & Culture Initiative and nominated for Canadian Indies, OAC’s KM Hunter award and twice at Toronto […]

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Best of India, Best of Jazz

September 6, 20157:00 pm Toronto Centre For The Arts / George Weston Recital Hall $30 – $100http://www.tocentre.com/georgeweston/bestofindiahttp://www.ticketmaster.ca/best-of-india-best-of-jazz-toronto-ontario-09-06-2015/event/10004EDEE6EEA16D?artistid=1499900&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=5&tm_link=venue_msg-0_10004EDEE6EEA16D&brand=tca_gw Presented by Kabir Centre for Arts & Culture An evening of superb jazz and sublime Indian music with a galaxy of stars, featuring two-times Grammy-winning Ernie Watts, one of the greatest sax tenors and rhythms and blue musician, […]

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Live on the Patio: Guitar Summit Featuring Nano Stern

2015-08-146:30 pm Roy Thomson Hall Patio FREEhttp://roythomson.com/eventdetail/PatioNanoStern Roy Thomson Hall presents Rooted in the traditional music of his native Chile and inspired by that country’s legends Violeta Parra, Victor Jara and Inti-Illimani, Nano Stern has created a fusion of indie, folk, rock and jazz that is garnering him enthusiastic acclaim abroad. With a fifth album […]

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