For more than a year now, I have been using this little bit of column space to explore the landscape of arts and culture in Ontario from the viewpoint of my home in a remote community in the north of…

In the recent Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, there is an early moment in which Timothée Chalamet, as a young Dylan, performs alongside Ed Norton as Pete Seeger at a hootenanny. In that scene, there is a passing shot…

I was living in New York, completing my master’s degree in classical voice at the Manhattan School of Music. Worries about being successful in my burgeoning career were constantly on my mind. Truth be told, I felt like a headless…

February and March are not the most glamorous months of the year; between salt-stained boots, wind-whipped skin, and the knowledge that spring will mostly just be more winter, it’s a miracle that any of us get out at all. Things,…

The “up here” in this month’s column is (mostly) Timmins, where Angela Garwood-Touw has a busy schedule. The New Brunswick born violinist is Concertmaster for the Timmins Symphony Orchestra, regular First Violinist for the Sudbury and North Bay Symphonies, and…