TORONTO — Grace Turner stood at the top of a grassy park slope with a megaphone in her hand. “This turnout is insane,” she said.
TORONTO — The inaugural Departure Festival gets underway today in Toronto. Formerly known as Canadian Music Week, the six-day event is moving forward with a
TORONTO — Soulpepper artistic director Weyni Mengesha and dub poet d’bi.young anitafrika are among the winners of the Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prizes. The Metcalf
TORONTO — The former president of Canadian Music Week says legal action he launched over what he characterizes as a “miscommunication” with the festival’s new
TORONTO — Toronto’s legendary El Mocambo is back on the sales block. Less than five years after former “Dragons’ Den” star Michael Wekerle reopened the
TORONTO — Kevan Staples, the co-founder of the groundbreaking avant-garde Toronto rock band Rough Trade, has died at 75 years old. His bandmate Carole Pope
TORONTO — Canadian folk legend Sylvia Tyson spent more than half a century in the music business, but lately, she’s felt a growing distance from
TORONTO — The founder of Canadian Music Week is taking the new owners of Departure Festival to court, alleging they’ve breached their contract and failed
TORONTO — Neil Young has scrapped plans to play a free concert in Ukraine. The “Rockin’ in the Free World” singer announced on his website
TORONTO — Elton John will receive the 15th Glenn Gould Prize, a $100,000 award for an artist whose work has “enriched the human condition.” The
The board will meet this week to consider ways to address the music organization’s disgruntled members.
TORONTO — Buffy Sainte-Marie lost her Juno awards, Polaris Music Prize and several Hall of Fame inductions in a matter of hours on Friday —
