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Lisa Patterson
Lisa Patterson is a singer, songwriter, producer, and educator. Early life and education She was born in Canada to a Scottish father, Rob Patterson, and a Canadian mother of Romanian descent, Elaine Gherasim, who died in 2006. A classically trained musician, Patterson studied audio engineering and production at Fanshawe College and later attended York University as a performance major focusing on South Indian music, composition, and improvisation. Career Patterson has been active as a sideman and solo recording artist touring in North America, India, Mexico, Europe, and the Middle East. While her main instrument is piano, she performs frequently on alto saxophone and duduk. She was active in post-punk and new wave bands in London, Ontario, Canada in the 1980s where she played with Sheep Look Up, Suffer Machine, and Edna and Edna. In 1999, Patterson founded imaginit music, a Toronto-based company that operates as a recording, rehearsal, and teaching studio. Imaginit music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, second-largest country by total area, with the List of countries by length of coastline, world's longest coastline. Its Canada–United States border, border with the United States is the world's longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both Temperature in Canada, meteorologic and Geography of Canada, geological regions. With Population of Canada, a population of over 41million people, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in List of the largest population centres in Canada, urban areas and large areas of the country being sparsely populated. Canada's capital is Ottawa and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Post-punk
Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of music that emerged in late 1977 in the wake of punk rock. Post-punk musicians departed from punk's fundamental elements and raw simplicity, instead adopting a broader, more experimental approach that encompassed a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-rock influences. Inspired by punk's energy and do it yourself ethic but determined to break from rock cliches, artists experimented with styles like funk, electronic music, jazz, and dance music; the music production, production techniques of dub music, dub and disco; and ideas from art and politics, including critical theory, modernist art, Film, cinema and modernist literature, literature. These communities produced independent record labels, visual art, multimedia performances and fanzines. The early post-punk vanguard was represented by groups including Siouxsie and the Banshees, Wire (band), Wire, Public Image Ltd, the Pop Group, Magazine (band), Magazine, Joy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) is a Canadian orchestra based in Toronto, Ontario. Founded in 1906, the TSO gave regular concerts at Massey Hall until 1982, and since then has performed at Roy Thomson Hall. The TSO also manages the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra (TSYO). Peter Oundjian was the music director from 2004 to 2018. Sir Andrew Davis, conductor laureate of the TSO, was the orchestra's interim artistic director from 2018 to 2020. Gustavo Gimeno has been the music director of the TSO since the 2020–2021 season. History The TSO was founded in 1922 as the New Symphony Orchestra, and gave its first concert at Massey Hall in April 1923 with 58 musicians. The first conductor was Luigi von Kunits, and that season there were twenty concerts, as well as a performance at a spring festival. In the summer of 1924, the symphony performed at the Canadian National Exhibition The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), also known as The Exhibition or The Ex, is an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Departure Festival
The Departure Festival + Conference, formerly known as Canadian Music Week, is an industry conference and music festival held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.David Friend"Canadian Music Week buyers rename event Departure Festival, expand its scope" ''Toronto Star'', November 12, 2024. The event announced its new name in November 2024, noting that it will expand its focus to include art, comedy, technology, film and fashion events. History The event is an annual four-day music and media conference that began in 1981. It is one of Canada's largest and most influential conferences, drawing top industry professionals from around the world. The event is designed to stimulate the exchange of market intelligence, increase dialogue, and provide networking opportunities. The conference includes a variety of activities, such as conferences, award shows, and one of Canada's biggest "New Music" festivals. The festival features performances by emerging and established artists at venues ranging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands consists of Provinces of the Netherlands, twelve provinces; it borders Germany to the east and Belgium to the south, with a North Sea coastline to the north and west. It shares Maritime boundary, maritime borders with the United Kingdom, Germany, and Belgium. The official language is Dutch language, Dutch, with West Frisian language, West Frisian as a secondary official language in the province of Friesland. Dutch, English_language, English, and Papiamento are official in the Caribbean Netherlands, Caribbean territories. The people who are from the Netherlands is often referred to as Dutch people, Dutch Ethnicity, Ethnicity group, not to be confused by the language. ''Netherlands'' literally means "lower countries" i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro Morning
Metro Morning is CBC Radio One's local morning program in Toronto, airing on CBLA-FM. The program airs from 5:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. weekday mornings, and has frequently been Toronto's highest-rated radio program in its timeslot. ''Metro Morning'' does not air on most of CBLA's rebroadcast transmitters outside of Toronto, which air the separate program ''Ontario Morning'' instead. However ''Metro Morning'' was broadcast on the Paris, Ontario transmitter CBLA-FM-2 to serve Waterloo Region and the westernmost parts of the Greater Toronto Area, until the start of that region's local morning programming, ''Morning Edition'', on March 11, 2013. History ''Metro Morning'' premiered in 1973 with the name ''Tomorrow Is Here''. It replaced ''I'm Here Till 9'' which had been hosted by Alex Trebek from 1971 until the end of 1972 when it was decided to replace it with a show that had a harder news format. George Rich hosted the morning show between Trebek's departure at the end of 1972 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here And Now (Toronto)
''Here and Now'' is a daily Canadian radio show, which airs on CBLA-FM in Toronto, Ontario. Under CBC Radio One's policy of extended local programming in metropolitan markets, the program airs from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on CBLA's primary transmitter in Toronto, pre-empting the 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. hour of network programming. However, CBLA's rebroadcast transmitters elsewhere in Southern Ontario do not air the first hour of ''Here and Now'', remaining with the network programs and joining ''Here and Now'' in progress at 4 p.m. History The program debuted under its current title in 1997, concurrently with the network's rebranding from "CBC Radio" to "CBC Radio One".Peter Goddard, "New names, new shows for CBC Radio Both networks on FM dial: One for news, Two for entertainment". ''Toronto Star'', August 20, 1997. Its first host was slated to be Maureen Taylor, but she left the network for TVOntario before the program's launch, and the program debuted with Joan Melanson as host. Melanson too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Signal (radio Program)
''The Signal'' is a Canadian radio program, which debuted on CBC Radio 2 on March 19, 2007 and had its final broadcast on September 2, 2017. Devoted to contemporary music and airing from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m., the program was hosted by Laurie Brown Mondays to Saturdays. The weekend version, which previously aired Friday to Sunday was hosted by Pat Carrabré T. Patrick Carrabré is a Canadian composer, teacher, and radio personality based in Manitoba. He is currently a professor of music at the University of British Columbia, where he serves as Director of the School of Music. Carrabré was formerly ... until March 2009 (until this time Brown only hosted Monday to Thursday). Subsequently, Brown took over the Friday and Saturday edition of the show while the Sunday broadcast being replaced by '' The Strombo Show''. External links ''The Signal'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Messinger
Adam "Messy" Messinger is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian-born record producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles, California. He is a producer for Canadian reggae band Magic!, but was initially a producer/songwriter as a member of the production duo The Messengers—both along with Nasri Atweh—earning credits on a multitude of successful singles and albums. Career Born in Toronto, Messinger started playing the piano at age five, and proceeded to develop skills for a variety of instruments, including sax, bass, guitar, and drums/percussion. After being enrolled in the Claude Watson School for the Arts program from grade 4 through to 13, he attended the music program at York University in Toronto, where he was awarded the Oscar Peterson Scholarship for Jazz studies two years consecutively. He received Juno Award nominations in 2001 and 2006 for his work with a cappella group Cadence. He also co-wrote the winning RnB song in the 2002 John Lennon Songwr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benelux
The Benelux Union (; ; ; ) or Benelux is a politico-economic union, alliance and formal international intergovernmental cooperation of three neighbouring states in Western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The name is a portmanteau formed from joining the first few letters of each country's name and was first used to name the customs agreement that initiated the union (signed in 1944). It is now used more generally to refer to the geographic, economic, and cultural grouping of the three countries. The Benelux is an economically dynamic and densely populated region, with 5.6% of the European population (29.55 million residents) and 7.9% of the joint EU GDP (€36,000/resident) on 1.7% of the whole surface of the EU. In 2015, 37% of the total number of EU cross-border workers worked in the Benelux; 35,000 Belgian residents work in Luxembourg, while 37,000 others cross the border to work in the Netherlands each day. In addition, 12,000 Dutch and close to a thous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance Française
(; "French Alliance", stylised as ''af'') is an international organization that aims to promote the French language and francophone culture around the world. Created in Paris on 21 July 1883 under the name ''Alliance française pour la propagation de la langue nationale dans les colonies et à l'étranger'' (French alliance for the propagation of the national language in the colonies and abroad), known now simply as ''L'Alliance française'', its primary goal is teaching French as a second language. Headquartered in Paris, the ''Alliance'' had 850 centers in 137 countries on every inhabited continent in 2014. History and role The ''Alliance'' was created in Paris on 21 July 1883 by a group including the scientist Louis Pasteur, the diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps, the writers Jules Verne and Ernest Renan, and the publisher Armand Colin. The project was directly linked to the colonial aims of the French Third Republic. France believed it could spread civilization to colonie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drake Hotel (Toronto)
The Drake Hotel is a hospitality venue on Queen Street West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, near Parkdale. In addition to a 51-room boutique hotel, there is a restaurant lounge, corner café with street-level patio, Sky Yard roof top patio, and the Drake Underground basement nightclub and live performance venue. The Drake Underground primarily features indie acts, though past performers include M.I.A., Billie Eilish and Beck. History The venue was opened in 1890 as ''Small's Hotel''. At the time, the area was a major Canadian Pacific Railway hub near what was then one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in the city. In 1949, the hotel was acquired by new owners who expanded the building and renamed it ''the Drake''. The hotel eventually fell into decline. James Earl Ray described visiting "a bar around the corner"—likely the Drake—while living as a fugitive on nearby Ossington Avenue in 1968. In the 1970s, it fell into use as a flophouse like many hotels in North Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
