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Wander Wonder
Allison Au is a Canadians, Canadian jazz saxophonist. She has been nominated three times for the Juno Award for Juno Award for Best Jazz Album, Best Jazz Album, her second album ''Forest Grove'' won the Juno for best group jazz album in 2016. Career Au was born to a Chinese Canadians, Chinese father and a Jews, Jewish mother; her maternal grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. Au grew up in Toronto listening to her father's diverse record collection. She started classical piano lessons at age six and started playing the alto saxophone in elementary school at Grade 7 at Claude Watson School for the Arts. She graduated from Humber College's music program. She formed the Allison Au quartet in 2009. In 2022 she joined the Ostara Project, an all-female jazz supergroup led by Jodi Proznick and Amanda Tosoff. The album was nominated for Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year, Vocal Jazz Album of the Year at the 2023 Juno Awards. The Ostara Project has toured Canada throughout 2022 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
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, geograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
