Category: Arts & Culture
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Canada’s Chilina Kennedy takes centre stage at Kennedy Centre alongside legend Aretha Franklin
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PIANO WOMAN: Canadian-born triple threat performer Chilina Kennedy recently took the stage at the Kennedy Centre alongside an array of legendary talent, including Aretha Franklin and honouree Carole King. Photo via CBC By Dennis Kucherawy, corktown.ca Originally published at songandscript.ca What a difference a year makes! That’s an understatement for Canadian-born triple threat performer Chilina Kennedy who is currently…
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A Week of Merriment – “A Very Soulpepper Christmas” concerts debut this Saturday, Dec. 19th
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Four concerts until Boxing Day – Saturday, Dec. 26th By Dennis Kucherawy SOUL & PEPPER: Mike Ross, Director of Music for Soulpepper, and jazz/blues singer Jackie Richardson. Seem them on stage as part of A Very Soulpepper Christmas starting December 19. Photo courtesy Soulpepper. “A soul! A soul! A soul cake! Please good Missis a soul cake!”…
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New Gloria Estefan Broadway Musical with Choreography by Toronto-raised and trained Sergio Trujillo breaks $1 million weekly ticket sales mark in previews
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Opening night this Thursday, Nov. 5th — “I laughed, I cried, I conga-ed!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAaI72bLxCA By Dennis Kucherawy, Corktown Correspondent After its sizzling hot out-of-town engagement at Chicago’s Oriental Theatre this summer, the much-anticipated new Gloria and Emilio Estefan bio-musical “On Your Feet” is setting Broadway ablaze in previews. It has already broken the weekly $1 million…
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Book launch for Canadian jazz pioneer Archie Alleyne set for November 7
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ALL THAT JAZZ: Drummer Archie Alleyne performing at a 1988 concert. His autobiography will be released at a book launch at Daniels Spectrum on November 7. Photo courtesy CBC. By Dennis Kucherawy Last June on a sweltering afternoon during Toronto’s jazz festival, approximately 800 people crowded shoulder-to-shoulder into the Daniels Spectrum’s Ada Slaight Hall…
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You’re invited: Lower Don Trail mural unveiling – Friday, October 2
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The CRBA has received the following notice about the official mural unveiling set to take place this Friday. The mural is on the Bala Underpass, which links Corktown Common with the Don River Trail. Mural to be Unveiled at the Underpass of Lower Don River Trail with Bala Rail Line Mississaugas of the New Credit First…
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Former Governor General of Canada Walks with “The Postman”
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POSTMAN DELIVERS: Adrienne Clarkson, Canada’s former Governor General, along for the walk, with partner, noted author John RALSTON SAUL. Photo by Dennis Kucherawy. By Dennis Kucherawy Last Sunday was an extraordinary final day for the cast and crew of The Postman, the “promenade” play that has emerged as a popular hit of the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games’…