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The Performer: Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman
Acclaimed for her powerful, charismatic solo performances, Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman, 33, has been described as possessing what “may be one of the great voices of the 21st century.” Since launching her career in 1998, she has performed with some of the world’s top orchestras in the most prestigious venues in North American and Europe. Last year, she survived a brush...
Neil Young is forever Canadian
Every time Neil Young plays Winnipeg — he’s playing there tonight — it’s a big deal. While the legendary artist was born in Toronto and lived in Omemee, Ont., as kid, it was in the Peg where he spent his teenage years.
The city’s residents loves to claim Young as their own, and you can’t blame them — he played Winnipeg’s clubs, started his first band The Squires here, was friends...
You Oughta Know: Rock Plaza Central
Rock Central Plaza is more literate than your average indie act. They’re led by a twice-published author who wrote an entire album about robot horses and their latest effort was inspired by a William Faulkner novel.
While Toronto’s vibrant music scene has produced a number of big name indie bands — Broken Social Scene and Feist to name two — you’d be hard pressed to find...
Travel: Rock Cities
Don’t be a slave to your iPod–pack up your leather pants and hit the road to explore these rock ’n’ roll towns.
Winnipeg
It may be easy to knock the ’Peg for its sub-zero climes, but without the frigid temps Neil Young may have taken up surfing instead of the guitar. There’s not much else to do in the winter besides bundling up and heading out to watching top-notch indie talent, such as...
This album brought to you by — you
It’s unlikely you’ll see Walter Braunsteiner on the Grammys’ red carpet or rubbing shoulders with Kanye West, but that doesn’t mean this 36-year-old Austrian can’t be the world’s next big music mogul. An insurance industry IT specialist by day, Braunsteiner has given up buying CDs of up-and-coming artists, instead focusing his energies, and money, on developing them....
Bryan Borzykowski is a Toronto-based writer and editor working mainly for business publications. He writes for the New York Times, Canadian Business magazine, Globe and Mail, Bloomberg Businessweek Custom Publishing, Toronto Star, MoneySense and more. Bryan's the editor of Review magazine and is a senior editor with Connected for Business magazine. He's also a contributing writer with Hello! Canada and was once a weekly music columnist for Metro News. He's been nominated for several National Magazine Awards and he's co-authored