The Live Music Report
November 2007 |
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| Sisters of Sheynville |
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...this swing-klez nostalgia band played their own arrangements of such favourites as "Grine Kuzine" and "Sheyne Vi Levone"...
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| by Tova G. Kardonne & Roger Humbert |
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| Willie Colón |
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,,,Colón and his 8-piece band hooked the Toronto crowd immediately with the rhythm and the classic trombone herald of “Che Che Colé”...
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| by Joyce Corbett & Roger Humbert |
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| Iva Bittová |
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...During key times, she played in total darkness, preferring the audience to pay attention solely to the music...
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| by Tom Sekowski |
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| Princess the grrrls play Prince LIVE! |
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...Not since last summer’s Pride parade had so many tiaras been seen on one stage in Toronto....
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| by Tony Shivpershad & Roger Humbert |
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| David Calzado y su Charanga Habanera |
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...The acrobatics of the singers/dancers went from incredible dance moves to gymnastics, complete with back flips...
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| by Arina Steel & Roger Humbert |
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| Caetano Veloso |
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...echoed back through the concerns of the rest of the show, the specter of age that Veloso is clearly examining these days...
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| by Dan Donaldson |
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| Giraldo Piloto y Klimax |
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...cutting-edge Cuban music with incredible intensity; sophisticated in its complexity, exuberant in its mood...
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| by Joyce Corbett & Roger Humbert |
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| Tinariwen |
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...Tinariwen's music bursts with both politically and spiritually drenched stories set to a backdrop of sexy electric and...
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| by Laila Boulos & Roger Humbert |
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| Benny “el baby” Escalante |
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...As he began to sing you could close your eyes and imagine you were back in Maxim, El Ali Bar, or the Hotel Riviera in the days of Beny More...
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| by Arina Steel & Roger Humbert |
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| Desandann |
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...In the continuum of Afro-Cuban musics, this stuff is heavily on the Afro side, and what a treat to hear it...
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| by Tova G. Kardonne & Roger Humbert |
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| 416 Toronto Creative Improvisors Festival |
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| Day 1 |
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...Kubota was ideal as the kick-off artist ... because of his appropriately crossover artistic identity...
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| by David Fujino & Mike Colyer |
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| Day 4 |
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...Keep it loose and open seemed to be the group's assumption; but, as in life, things must change...
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| by David Fujino & Mike Colyer |
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| Theatre |
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| No Good Reason |
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...this is not a preachy anti-war play. Not at all...
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| by David Fujino |
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| Women Fully Clothed |
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...the talented performers took the audience on a virtual trip of the imagination...
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| by Lesley Mitchell-Clarke |
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| The Drawer Boy |
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... The Drawer Boy is humorous and thoughtful fiction that changes how people think about each other...
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| by David Fujino |
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