The 33rd edition of the Montreal Jazz Festival will kick off June 28 till July 7, 2012. Some of the big names appearing will be James Taylor, Stanley Clarke with Hiromi and Ziggy Marley with his band. Stay tuned for more information.
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MOS DEF To Play L’Olympia June 15
Regarded as one of hip-hop’s most introspective and insightful artists, Mos Def has shaped a career that transcends music genres and artistic medium. A child of hip-hop’s Golden Era, the native Brooklynite spent his childhood imbedded in the culture surrounding him as well as absorbing knowledge from across the artistic spectrum. With the release of [...]
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Lorraine Desmarais Releases New CD
Montreal, April 10, 2012 ‐ For her 11th album, Lorraine Desmarais once again finds her faithful partners, bassist Frédéric Alarie and drummer Camil Bélisle, offering us an original music album in a trio form. This new recording includes the most recent works of the pianist and composer. In some of these works, one can detect influences [...]
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Arts
TWO OBJECTS STOLEN FROM THE MMFA
Montreal, February 13, 2012 – AXA ART – the world’s only art-led insurance company is offering a substantial reward for the safe recovery of two small-scale archaeological fragments: an Assyrian low relief and a marble head dating from the Roman Empire that were stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) in the fall [...]
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Tom Wesselmann Canadian Presentation
Montreal, February 1, 2012 – Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004) was one of the greatest American Pop artists. Famous from the early 1960s for his “Great American Nude” series and still lifes, since his death he is nonetheless the only one of his contemporaries associated with that seminal twentieth-century art movement who has not yet had a [...]
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THE Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts Is Expanding
Montreal, September 6, 2011 – This fall, the entire Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is reinventing itself with the inauguration of its new Pavilion of Quebec and Canadian Art and concert hall and a complete reinstallation of its collections in all the pavilions, each of which will henceforth be devoted to one [...]
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