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Video: Aidan Knight and Dan Mangan Perform Jasper TogetherI recommend watching this sweet live video of Aidan Knight performing his song Jasper with Dan Mangan. Shot by Dan Mangan's brother, Neil Mangan, the two musicians stopped for a jam sessi...

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In this edition: Yukon Blonde's new video for their song Wind Blows , Music Waste Festival looking for musicians and Prairie Cat touring western Canada! Plus a live video of Zaac Pick at the Streaming Cafe.More......

topics: cafe, musicians

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Fake Jazz is back. The Wednesday weekly exhibit that took place at the Cobalt since 2006 has a new home at Lick @ 455 Abbott Street. First night featured experimental stalwarts Ahna, Stamina Mantis, Yellowthief and Shearing Pinx. It looks to be a ste...

topics: jazz, musicians

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Worst day of the year?It's always about money: VANOC and the aboriginal torch relay. For many native leaders, it's easier to rail against the government as the source of all that ails first nations people . And for most media its been super easy to ...

topics: musicians, olympic-games, olympics, park, show

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Not many people head to a show for the opening act, especially when they're in the large shadow of Oscar-winning musicians Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova. But Doveman, a quintet founded by New York's Thomas Bartlett, may be worth the price of admi...

topics: musicians, show

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Last week the Ack posted a rather thoughtful opine on K'NAAN's Polaris-nominated album Troubadour. I think one of his main points was that too many guests can even dull the impact of you album if you have a compelling story to tell, as K'NAAN does. ...

topics: dj, funk, musicians

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It's no secret that sometimes music is the only thing that helps you get through real loss. I'm not talking about a broken heart or a bad day, but those moments you get hit with that are unforgiving and unrelenting and leave an emptiness that wakes u...

topics: indie, musicians

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The first 2 days of the festival had bearable amounts of rain. I don't have any water proof shoes, so I walked around in flip-flops all weekend. My feet were muddy at the end of most days, however I didn't have to endure the pain of walking in wet ...

topics: dance, dancing, improv, indie, musicians

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For most musicians, the repeating cycle of inspiration is one that is hard to escape. New love, good days, better nights, heartbroken mornings; write your way through it. Everything starts and ends at the same place and sadly, once it's written you ...

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I've actually been meaning to do this for a while, but have always had something else I wanted to write about instead. We aren't really a fan of the ole clip-show mentality, but a lull in the review pile and the fact I had my IPOD on random during ...

topics: indie, musicians, show, shows