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Ideal Lovers opened Saturday’s Suoni Festival show at a packed Sala Rossa. They played funky blues that would be well-suited to an outdoor venue at the Jazz Festival. The standing crowd danced a bit and the band did a good job of warming us up, but I was anxious to see Vic Chestnutt and tired [...]

Spirits converged upon the old Spanish social club once again last night for the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival, to be immersed in the magnetism of a group of musicians partially responsible for building the foundation of the Montreal music community. There was a sign on the door that read “100% Sold Out” and people [...]

This is protest music, and when the wave of sorrowful lament and resistance sweeps over you with all its lifting counter melodies and strings there is a water welling in your brain stem effect, the waves of generations of the hopeful heart broken by war and greed, longing to make music and love in peace. [...]