music – Page 2 – Teahen Tales

My Canada, 95/150: When CBC shone

Canada’s national public broadcaster since 1936, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was a big part of my life growing up in this country.

In any account of Canadian opera, Harry Somer’s Louis Riel is singled out as an important work.

There’s a high concentration of Germanic music roots in Waterloo’s soil that feeds music-making of all kinds.

Classical music is now an international art form that reshape as it melds with new worlds and new performers.

Fiddle stew in Canada is a unique recipe, chock-a-block with ingredients from around the world.

Being a poor guitar player has made me appreciate all the more the true masters of the instrument.

I’ve been to some weird concerts in my life, but the cake-topper has to be the 50th anniversary reunion tour performance of the Nihilist Spasm Band.

The Barenaked Ladies made comedy look easy. One day, I got a backstage look into just how much work went into that ease.