Brad Wheeler

Beecroft was also a producer of CBC Radio programs, a co-founder of Toronto’s New Music Concerts and a strong advocate for contemporary Canadian composers

The production’s staging is elegant and austere; the look, music and story beguiles

In Canadian Photographs, James sought to capture Canada’s vernacular, from small town fairs to cityscapes to views from train windows

The Asheville, N.C., native – who seems poised either for stardom or cult-level success – brought his unique, southern-fried musical style to Toronto this week

He started out on CBC Television shows such as Music Hop and Singalong Jubilee, and was thought to have talent equal to Jim Croce or John Denver, but he never achieved the stardom that others predicted for him

The finalists for this year’s $100,000 award are Toronto poet-novelist Anne Michaels, British Columbia’s Anne Fleming, Montreal’s Éric Chacour, Edmonton’s Conor Kerr and Toronto-based Deepa Rajagopalan

Tickets for the long-awaited reunion concerts in Britain sold out in hours last month, and ducats for the Toronto concerts will likely also sell out quickly

The former Police frontman performed elegant renditions of his vast catalogue as he kicked off the sole Canadian stop of his Sting 3.0 theatre tour

I Heard There Was a Secret Chord explores how the connection between music and the brain can be harnessed to treat a host of ailments

The Globe and Mail talks to the filmmakers behind the indie classic that won Best Canadian Film honours at TIFF’s predecessor festival in 1989