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Kevin Quain
Kevin Quain is a cabaret artist, singer-songwriter playwright, composer and producer of audio recordings, who operates out of the Cameron House in Toronto, Canada. Since 1995 he has performed long-running weekly residencies at various Toronto venues including The Cameron House, The Rex Hotel, and Graffiti's. He has produced recordings for other artists, in his small studio above Cameron House. He has worked with Michelle Rumball, Max Metrault, Frank & Max Evans, Sue & Dwight, and Carnival Diablo. Quain edited ''The Elvis Reader: Texts and Sources on the King of Rock 'N' Roll''. He is a self-taught musician, singer/songwriter, and playwright. He has written music for film, TV, and the stage, and has performed with scores of artists including The Mahones, Carnival Diablo, and Mary Margaret O'Hara. He describes his unique music genre with The Mad Bastards as "garage jazz cabaret noir". Quain created ''Tequila Vampire Matinee'', a retelling of the opera ''Pagliacci'', which opene ...
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Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mouthpiece), reed in a frame). The essential characteristic of the accordion is to combine in one instrument a melody section, also called the descant, diskant, usually on the right-hand keyboard, with an accompaniment or Basso continuo functionality on the left-hand. The musician normally plays the melody on buttons or keys on the right-hand side (referred to as the Musical keyboard, keyboard or sometimes the manual (music), ''manual''), and the accompaniment on Bass (sound), bass or pre-set Chord (music), chord buttons on the left-hand side. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist. The accordion belongs to the free-reed aerophone family. Other instruments in this family include the concertina, harmonica, and bandoneon. Th ...
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Pagliacci
''Pagliacci'' (; literal translation, 'Clowns') is an Italian opera in a prologue and two acts, with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo. The opera tells the tale of Canio, actor and leader of a commedia dell'arte theatrical company, who murders his wife Nedda and her lover Silvio on stage during a performance. ''Pagliacci'' premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan on 21 May 1892, conducted by Arturo Toscanini, with Adelina Stehle as Nedda, Fiorello Giraud as Canio, Victor Maurel as Tonio, and Mario Ancona as Silvio. Soon after its Italian premiere, the opera played in London (with Nellie Melba as Nedda) and in New York (on 15 June 1893, with Agostino Montegriffo as Canio). ''Pagliacci'' is the best-known of Leoncavallo's ten operas and remains a staple of the repertoire. ''Pagliacci'' is often staged with ''Cavalleria rusticana'' by Pietro Mascagni, a double bill known colloquially as "Cav/Pag". Origin and disputes Leoncavallo was a little-known composer when Pietro Masc ...
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Dora Mavor Moore Award Winners
Dora may stand for: Arts and entertainment Television * Dora (Dora the Explorer), Dora (''Dora the Explorer''), a fictional character in the Dora the Explorer, ''Dora the Explorer'' franchise ** Dora the Explorer (TV series), ''Dora the Explorer'' (TV series), 2000–2019 ** Dora (TV series), ''Dora'' (TV series), a 2024 reboot of the original series * ''Dora'', series 2 of the 1973 British sitcom ''Both Ends Meet'' Film * Dora (1933 film), ''Dora'' (1933 film), a British comedy * ''Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents'', a 2015 Swiss drama * Dora (2017 film), ''Dora'' (2017 film), a Tamil horror thriller * Dora, fictional tribal chieftains in the 2023 Indian film ''Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire, Salaar'' Other uses in arts and entertainment * Dora Mavor Moore Awards, or the Doras, by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts * "Dora", a song by Ambitious Lovers from the 1984 album ''Envy (Ambitious Lovers album), Envy'' * Dora, bonus tiles in Japanese mahjong#Dora, Japa ...
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Canadian Jazz Musicians
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, an ...
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Dora Mavor Moore Award
The Dora Mavor Moore Awards (also known as the Dora Awards or the Doras) are awards presented annually by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA), honouring theatre, dance and opera productions in Toronto. Named after Dora Mavor Moore, who helped establish Canadian professional theatre, the awards program was established on December 13, 1978, with the first awards held in 1980. Each winner receives a bronze statue made from the original by John Romano. Awards Awards are given in major divisions: General Theatre (Drama/Comedy/Play, budget over $100,000 and over 150 seats), Musical Theatre (Musical/Revue/Cabaret), Independent Theatre (budget under $100,000 and/or under 150 seats), Dance, Opera, Theatre for Young Audiences, and Touring. Each of these major categories is further sub-divided in an assorted number of awards. In 2018, the awards announced that beginning with the 2019 awards, it would discontinue gender-based performance categories, replacing its previous ...
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Ted Dykstra
Ted Dykstra is a Canadian playwright and actor. Early life He was born in Chatham-Kent, Ontario in 1961 and grew up in St. Albert, Alberta. Career He is a founding member of Soulpepper Theatre Company. His writing credits include ''Two Pianos Four Hands'', ''Adaptations of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian'', and ''Evangeline''. His acting performances include Bach in ''Bach's Fight for Freedom'' and Ed Broadbent in ''Mulroney: The Opera'', as well as some voice acting, voice work. Dykstra voices Dad Tiger in ''Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood'' and Reg in ''RoboRoach''. In 2003, he formed an independent record label Actorboy Records with Gary Sinise. He was formerly married to Melanie Doane with two children, Theo and Rosie. He is currently married to Diana Bentley with one child, Henry. Coal Mine Theatre Dykstra and his wife Diana Bentley are co-directors of ''Coal Mine Theatre''. Filmography Television Film Stage References External links

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Theatre Passe Muraille
Theatre Passe Muraille is a theatre company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is on Ryerson Avenue in the Alexandra Park neighbourhood of Toronto. Brief history One of Canada's most influential alternative theatres, Theatre Passe Muraille ("theatre beyond walls") was founded in 1968 by director and playwright Jim Garrard, who started the company out of Rochdale College. Its intention was to create a distinctly Canadian voice in theatre. It was conceived with the notion that theatre should transcend real estate and that plays can be made and staged anywhere — in barns, in auction rings, in churches, bars, basements, lofts, even in streetcars. The company was interested in the idea that theatre should endeavour to be a mirror, not a vehicle of social change. The company gained local notoriety when it was charged with obscenity for the play ''Futz'' by American playwright Rochelle Owens, about a farmer who falls in love with his pig. Jim Garrard was succeeded by Martin Kinch, ...
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Mary Margaret O'Hara
Mary Margaret O'Hara is a Canadian singer-songwriter, actress and composer. She is best known for the album ''Miss America'', released in 1988. She released two albums and an EP under her own name, and remains active as a live performer, as a contributor to compilation albums and as a guest collaborator on other artists' albums. Music career Early stages O'Hara was born in the late 1950s in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to a family of Irish Catholic descent. She is the sister of comedic actress Catherine O'Hara. Her early musical tastes included Van Morrison, Dinah Washington, and her father's jazz records. She was a student at the Ontario College of Art and Design in the 1970s and was involved in the music scene as a member of Toronto bands Dollars, Songship and Go Deo Chorus. On March 17, 1978, she and her brother, Marcus O'Hara, started the Martian Awareness Ball, an event that continues to this day every Saint Patrick's Day at the Horseshoe Tavern. In 1983, O'Hara left Go Deo ...
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Banjo
The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and in modern forms is usually made of plastic, where early membranes were made of animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by African Americans and had African antecedents. In the 19th century, interest in the instrument was spread across the United States and United Kingdom by traveling shows of the 19th-century minstrel show fad, followed by mass production and mail-order sales, including instructional books. The inexpensive or home-made banjo remained part of rural folk culture, but five-string and four-string banjos also became popular for home parlor music entertainment, college music clubs, and early 20th century jazz bands. By the early 20th century, the banjo was most frequently associated with folk, cowboy music, and country music. By mid-century it had come to be strongly associated with bluegrass. Eventu ...
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Carnival Diablo
Carnival Diablo the Ultimate Sideshow is a travelling sideshow operating primarily in Spencerville, Ontario, Canada. Performances by the troupe follow a traditional Ten-in-One format featuring such acts as fire-eating, sword swallowing and a human blockhead, with show times lasting two and a half hours. Carnival Diablo opened on April Fools' Day 1992 by Scott McClelland, whose family goes back three generations in the carnival and side show business. Shows have been performed across Canada, including shows at The Calgary Stampede, Edmonton's Klondike Days (now K-Days,) Regina's Buffalo Days, and the Canadian Tulip Festival. In 2008 and 2009, Carnival Diablo was a featured act at Carnivàle Lune Bleue, a dedicated revival of a 1930s old-time carnival located in Ottawa, Ontario. History Scott McClelland's grandfather, Nicholas Paul Lewchuk, had run and operated Canada's largest travelling sideshow from 1920 through 1968. Starting as a performance show with acts ranging from sword s ...
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The Mahones
The Mahones are a Canadian Irish punk band, formed on St. Patrick's Day in 1990, in Kingston, Ontario. Biography The Mahones were formed in 1990 by Dublin-born Finny McConnell, as a one-off band for a St. Patrick's Day party. Encouraged by a positive reception, McConnell decided to pursue the band full-time. The Mahones have released thirteen albums to date with their most recent, ''Jameson Street'', being released in 2022 being named the top celtic punk album of the year and have continually received high praise for their energetic live show ever since. The Mahones’ music has been featured in several major motion pictures. They co-wrote and recorded the title track for the 1996 film ''Celtic Pride'' with Dan Aykroyd. Their song "100 Bucks" was featured in the 1998 film ''Dog Park''. Their song "Paint The Town Red" was featured in the climactic final fight scene of the 2010 Oscar Award-winning film ''The Fighter''. Their song "A Little Bit of Love" is in the 2011 film ''Irv ...
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