Results for "Mike Chamberlain"
Something Else! Festival 2019
by Mike Chamberlain
Something Else! St. John the Evangelist Church Hamilton, Ontario June 20-23, 2019 I must confess that I spend very little time in churches, so I would not normally be inclined to spend the first weekend of summer in one. But sometimes exceptions must be made, and such an exception ...
Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2019, Part 2-2
by Mike Chamberlain
Part 1 | Part 2 Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada May 16-19, 2019 The first two days of this year's FIMAV lived up to lofty expectations, and, if anything, Saturday's and Sunday's programs looked even more promising, with artists such as Roscoe Mitchell Vijay Iyer, ...
Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2019, Part 1-2
by Mike Chamberlain
Part 1 | Part 2Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada May 16-19, 2019 There was a lot of positive buzz leading up to the 35th edition of the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville. On paper, the schedule looked very strong. Looking back over past ...
Suoni Per Il Popolo 2018
by Mike Chamberlain
Suoni Per Il Popolo Montreal, Quebec June 1-19, 2018 The Casa del Popolo and Sala Rossa, the hub of the annual June celebration of avant music known as the Suoni Per Il Popolo, sit across from one another on Saint Laurent Boulevard just below the major intersection of Saint Joseph. ...
Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2018, Part 2
by Mike Chamberlain
Part 1 | Part 2 Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville Victoriaville, Quebec May 19-20, 2018 In a span of now only seven concerts over two editions of Victo, the Eglise St Christophe d'Arthabaskahas has become a favourite among the festival venues, for the acoustic environment created by the ...
Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2018, Part 1
by Mike Chamberlain
Part 1 | Part 2 Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada May 17-18, 2018 Keeping a middle-aged festival such as the Festival International de Musique Actualle de Victoriaville fresh and relevant is a challenge, but the program for this year's 34th edition of FIMAV assembled by ...
Jazz em Agosto 2017
by Mike Chamberlain
Jazz em Agosto Lisbon, Portugal July 28-August 6, 2017 Where to start with my description of the Jazz em Agosto experience? The gorgeous setting of the amphitheater in the garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Fundacão Calouste Gulbenkian) in central Lisbon? The musical highlights of the fourteen concerts over ten ...
Suoni Per Il Popolo 2017
by Mike Chamberlain
Casa del Popolo, Sala Rossa, La Vitrola Suoni Per Il Popolo Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 1-24, 2017 This year's edition of the Suoni per il Popolo, or Suoni as it is popularly known, was the 17th since the inception of Mauro Pezzente and Kiva Stimac's Casa del Popolo mini-empire, which also ...
Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2017
by Mike Chamberlain
Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada May 18-21, 2017 In Canada, the Monday closest to May 24, the birthday of Queen Victoria, is a public holiday (in Quebec it has two names: Journée des Patriotes or Fête du Dollard--it's complicated), and the Victoria Day long weekend is the ...
Suoni Per Il Popolo 2016
by Mike Chamberlain
Suoni Per Il Popolo La Sala Rossa Montréal, Canada June 2-19, 2016 The final weekend of the 16th Suoni Per Il Popolo featured several notable performances by jazz-based artists: Myra Melford and Francois Bourassa; Luc Ex's Assemblee; and The Thing, with guest James Blood Ulmer. The program by pianists ...
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