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Batuki Music Society is proud to present the Habari Africa Festival at Harbourfront Centre from Friday, August 9 to Sunday, August 11, 2024. Habari Africa is a multi-disciplinary music and arts festival that displays the rich and diverse cultures of Africa. Join us for a weekend of exploration and engagement with the art, sounds and tastes of the continent. The festival will offer an authentic experience through presentations that celebrate the uniqueness, wealth and diversity of African music, dance, film and arts. The annual Habari Africa Festival is a focal point of Torontoʼs cultural calendar, bringing together musicians and performing artists from all over the world. The festival is an all-ages family event presented free to the public. Batuki Music is a non-profit African arts organization based in Toronto.

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Hear the best emerging professional voices from Canada and beyond in the beauty of the Haliburton Highlands, only 2.5 hours northeast of Toronto. Established in Haliburton, ON, in 2007 by internationally-acclaimed Canadian tenor Richard Margison and Canadian stage director/violist, and former Metropolitan Opera stage director, Valerie Kuinka, Highlands Opera Studio is an advanced intensive professional training and networking program for emerging operatic professionals. Chosen from close to 100 applicants from across Canada and internationally, the 17 successful 2024 participants attend the 5-week program free of charge and can be heard in public masterclasses, multiple concerts, community events, and two fully-staged operas: Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Andrew Balfour's Mishabooz’s Realm, commissioned in 2017.

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Celebrating four decades of opera presentations by Canada's emerging artists, Summer Opera Lyric Theatre features Handel's Xerxes, Mozart's Idomeneo and Puccini's La Boheme, under the leadership of experts in the field - Jo Greenaway, Suzy Smith and Helen Becqué in fully staged operas by Guillermo Silva-Marin. 33 vocalists from across Canada will thrill and entertain you with their fresh and insightful dramatic interpretations at the intimacy and acoustic excellence of the Alumnae Theatre in Toronto. 12 performances culminate eight weeks of intensive training in the performing arts, movement, deportment and acting technique. SOLT is generously supported by the Jackman Foundation and the Estate of the Sandra Marlene Painter. For further information please visit our website.

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Port Hope Jazz strives to be Canada's premier national jazz festival for the celebration of the diversity of Canadian Jazz arts excellence and to promote youth program development within a vibrant musical, economic and cultural atmosphere.

We have a spectacular festival planned for August, 22 to 25, 2024.

This year's event will feature performances by Allison Au, Mike Downes with Robi Botos and Ted Quinlan, Kellylee Evans, Ewen Farncombe and Alex Bird, Steve Holt with Kevin Turcotte, Kirk MacDonald, Duncan Hopkins and Terry Clark, Duncan Hopkins, George Koller, Joy Lapps-Lewis, Fern Lindzon, Charlotte McAfee-Bruner, Alex Pangman, Reg Schwager, Michael Shand and The Shuffle Demons.

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Music at Port Milford Artist Chamber Music Series was established in 1987 and takes place on four consecutive Saturday evenings at St. Mary Magdalene Church, 335 Main St., Picton. Tickets: $50 (adult), $20 (youth 16 and under & students). Season Pass: $150 (adult), $60 youth & students).

Saturday, July 13, 7:30pm: “Beginnings”
George Enescu; Trevor Wilson; Beethoven; Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson; Kevin Lau; Joseph Suk

Saturday, July 20, 7:30pm: “Tenacity & Wit”
Haydn; Margaret Brouwer; Ann Southam; Brahms

Saturday, July 27, 7:30pm: “In Wonder”
Ravel; Ian Cusson; Schumann; Ellington; Schubert; Dvorak

Saturday, August 3, 7:30pm: “Romanceros”:
Schubert; Schumann; Gabriella Lena Frank; Borodin: String Quartet No. 2