Tag Archive for the term: mcgill

Hi Everybody! We were lucky to get some fantastic shots from our set at the Frosh concert on August 29. Check em out, we posted them here in the Gallery. Also can be seen on our Facebook site.  
 

On top of a month-long itinerary of amazing shows, Suoni Per Il Popolo is collaborating with The Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium at the University of Guelph and McGill University in Montreal to put together this weekend’s Improvisation Colloquium. I really really wish I could go, but I’m working both days. If you’ve got any free [...]

Kaya Fraser has started to get quite a lovely buzz going this year about her album and live show, and I had the pleasure of squeezing in to Montreal’s famed cozy basement venue in the McGill ghetto this week to partake. When I arrived at 8:45 the room was packed, and I grabbed the last [...]

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The McGill Undergrad Book Club is publicizing a reading series being put on by Paragraphe Bookstore:
Paragraphe Bookstore, in conjunction with the Montreal Gazette, has published its list of authors for the “Words After Dark 2007″ lecture series. Authors, dates and times are given below. For more information or for tickets, please visit Paragraphe bookstore (corner [...]

With our sixth Monthly Mess, themed “Back to Scoool” now behind us, I’m readying myself for the next challenge… actually going back to school! For a gal who’s been out of school and working full-time for a couple of years, this is a surreal switch from “the real world” to the microcosmic university world, a [...]

I just met Fraser, and he’s dear. His music’s got reggae beat, with electronic layers and a sweet pop croon.
The event is free if you bring an old cell phone (projectre-cell.com) and it’s also a fundraiser for Sustainable McGill and, apparently, a Mix-Tape release! Catch it at:
La Plage 4653 St.Laurent, March 16th.
http://sustainablemcgill.ca
myspace.com/frasermacdougall
myspace.com/slowhandmotem

(this is the followup to: A Night at the Opera-Part One-Review of L’Enfant et les Sortileges)
Gianni Schicchi
Opera McGill

Review of the first opera, L’Enfant et les Sortileges, here.
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Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi is fun little slapsticker. It reminds one of a drawer room comedy or of opera buffa. A greedy family has arrived at [...]

l’Enfant et les Sortileges
Opera McGill
Even though I spend most of my Saturday afternoons with Howard Dyck not Sook-Yin; I will admit that my knowledge of opera is about equal to George Bush’s knowledge of the Middle East. Luckily I picked the perfect show to attend with Opera McGill’s staging of two one act pieces-Ravel’s [...]

The Future of Music Policy Summit has been over for a while now. But for those of you who were too busy recovering from Pop Montreal shows during the 4 day weekend of madness that was Oct. 4-7 and missed all or any of the presentations that took place during the day at the McGill [...]