LULAWORLD
May 31 to June 10
Toronto, ON
The annual LULAWORLD festival showcases new work and collaborations by local and international Latin, Brazilian, jazz, folk and global artists. In addition to three CD releases, highlights of LULAWORLD 2018 include a community brass band that you can perform with, special guest salsa artists from Puerto Rico, Los Angeles and Montreal, a residency with Olodum’s Mestre Memeu direct from Brazil, indigenous reggae, rock and blues by Shauit and Digging Roots, Philadelphia-based jazz poet Ursula Rucker, and a music and street mural exchange with Valparaiso, Chile. The festival includes ten free, family friendly outdoor performances on June 1 and 2 in collaboration with the Dundas West Fest community street festival. LULAWORLD is presented by Lula Music and Arts Centre.
416-588-0307
www.lulaworld.ca
The Montreal Chamber Music Festival presents its 23rd season, offering a wonderful array of gems from the chamber music repertoire, exciting premieres, and new collaborations, with performances by many of our most revered artists along with brilliant new discoveries. Beginning with a new spring series at The Ritz-Carlton Montreal in April and May, the Festival moves to Pollack Hall for the TD JAZZ and classical series in June. With our theme “Droit au Cœur!" (Straight to the Heart!), we emphasize our love for chamber music, the most intimate and collaborative of art forms. Highlights include the Canadian premiere of the New York Philharmonic String Quartet and special events to celebrate the “Year of the Cello” in concert and film.
The Heritage Music Festival, featuring the 68th Canadian Open Old Time Fiddle Championship, will take place August 8-12, 2018 in Shelburne, Ontario. Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Shelburne, the event features a variety of entertainers, including The Trews, the Beckett Family, and Louis Schryer, as well as Canada’s top fiddlers in competition for thousands of dollars in prizes. Community events include camping, Bands and Brews at the Fiddle Park, a giant fiddle parade, a pork bbq, an open air market, and non-denominational church service. Proceeds of the Heritage Music Festival support Shelburne Rotary’s many charitable projects.
Join us to celebrate our 25th Anniversary with five days of world-class creative music in one of Ontario’s loveliest cities. Our intimate community-powered festival features the best in contemporary improvised music, offers ticketed concerts plus a free outdoor series on Friday and Saturday in Market Square, and hosts free educational programming with panel talks and artist interviews. Some of the artists featured include: Darius Jones’s Le bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation), Steve Swell’s Soul Travelers, Jean Derome’s Somebody Special: Music of Steve Lacy, Satoko Fujii’s This Is It!, Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones, Agustí Fernández & Yves Charuest, Konk Pack, Nick Fraser Quartet with Tony Malaby, and many more.