Women From Space Big Bang! Plays Björk. 17 piece, all-star improvising band with live visuals by The Liquid Crystal Display

Featuring arrangements by Jessica Ackerley ★ Mingjia Chen ★ Lieke Van Der Voort ★ Madeleine Ertel ★ Nicole Rampersaud ★ Heather Saumer

Kulintang with a twist at BIG BANG

This performance is part of the BIG BANG Festival, two days “musicolourful” fun. At the NAC, Saturday and Sunday, February 17 and 18, 2024. Performance takes place on the Fourth Stage.

Celebrate the Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day at RAD: Lunar Love—a night of dragon dances, floor-shaking DJ sets, Instagram-worthy photo ops, and so much more.

Tiger Balme: Rich with honeyed harmonies and shimmering harps, Tiger Balme makes sumptuous bedroom pop for the soundtrack of your life.  

TEKE::TEKE + PANTAYO + SAMWOY

Taverne Tour, M for Montreal & CISM 89.3 FM present

Evergreen plays traditional Indonesian gamelan music and new compositions by composer, teacher, and master gamelan performer Iwan Gunawan

Medieval free improv band Jelly Ear plays at the ROM. Two sets at 8:45pm and 9:45pm.

Tiger Balme is wrapping up their artist residency at Studio RAW! Their goal for this residency was to write an EP’s worth of new music. Join us on October 13th to hear them perform four songs in progress and share about how each song came to life. RAW members will also share some new pieces and reflections on the composition process.

Members of Tiger Balme will each present their individual songwriting process as developed during their residency period at Studio RAW. Participants will be led through songwriting exercises generated from each band member's personal writing process. The purpose of this workshop is to offer multiple entryways into songwriting with an emphasis on exploration and wordplay. No prior songwriting experience is necessary, only curiosity and a sense of play :)

Founded by its 9-person Co-Creator-Team, Highlands is a three- night Folk Music getaway celebrating the musical talent of many youthful Folk (and Folk’ish!) performances on its 3 stage setup at Camp Walden this September 28 - October 1.

“The times are changin’ again, and we think young people are worth listening to. Won’t you join us?”

"A marathon of sound in the middle of traffic"

Marathon show of 8 different ensembles. Line up TBD (as a treat for making it this deep into my website I will tell u that Tiger Balme is performing hehe)

Throughout their powerful performance, the womxn of RAW show their strength and vulnerability through the modern interpretation of traditional Japanese taiko drumming.

Recognized by Canadian Heritage as a nationally significant performing arts presentation tradition, Stone & Sky is an eclectic and growing series of curated artistic events and residencies.

Composed in 2019 by JUNO-nominated composer, Keyan Emami, The Black Fish Project is a three-movement composition scored for narrator, chamber ensemble, and electronics. While the music loosely corresponds to the Persian children’s book, The Little Black Fish, this musical adaptation interweaves the personal life experiences of the composer into the story of the black fish to create a highly personal account of the scaly protagonist’s journey from the little pond to the open sea.

RAW Taiko performs in Allen Gardens at the end of the Dyke March, as we always do. BOOM BOOM!

Toronto-based alt-indie band Tiger Balme brings together the grounding forces of drums, guitar, and bass with shimmering vibraphone, harp, and soaring harmonies to create sonic spaces of tender resilience. The band, composed of Asian-identifying women and non-binary musicians, released their debut album, the self-titled Tiger Balme, in November 2022. Their music has received national radio play (CBC Music, CBC Radio One, CJRU) and coverage (CBC, Range, Dominionated), and they have shared the stage with international and local acts at venerable venues around Toronto as well as Venus Fest, POP Montreal, and Pique Fest.

longing for _, the debut album of Toronto-based percussionist Yang Chen manages to do the unthinakable: showcase their audacious eclecticism, sharp curatorial sensibility, and exceptional skill all at the same time. As such, Chen is right at home on the celebrated cross-border imprint People Places Records, a label known for embracing young, vibrant artists operating loosely within the bounds of contemporary composition.

longing for _ includes collaborations with one of People Places’ head honchos, guitarist-composer Andrew Noseworthy alongside other respected (and largely emerging) talent such as Yaz Lancaster, Connie Li, Jason Doell, Sara Constant, Sarian Sankoh, Stephanie Orlando and Charles Lutvak. On it, Chen performs on everything from bicycle to steel pan evoking styles that span elegiac R&B to full-on electroacoustic abstraction.

The premiere of a new major work about Indigenous water sovereignty from Cree cellist and composer Cris Derksen, preceded by an immersive outdoor prelude performance.

Choir members will be scattered throughout the beautiful grounds of the Toronto Botanical Gardens while concert goers stroll through experiencing pockets of song, including new works from our Choral Creation Lab composers. The Songwalk will culminate with the full choir and band performing the world premiere of the new work on the outdoor stage.

The Queer Songbook Orchestra (QSO) is a Toronto-based 13-piece chamber pop ensemble, dedicated to exploring and uplifting 2SLGBTQ+ narrative in pop music. With the queer lens intact, they look through the last century of popular music and bring forward obscured 2SLGBTQ+ historical narratives, alongside the personal reflections from members of the community. By working with a base of known songs that are uniquely reimagined for the ensemble, they offer the listener new points of entry into familiar works and a broader perspective on the universality of human experience.

Composer / cellist Cory Harper-Latkovich's (Clarinet Panic) newest project Jelly Ear sees him take up medieval stringed instrument the rebec. This ensemble featuring an ever evolving cast of members plays creatively open renditions of medieval repertoire. The maudlin wistful interpretations bristle with quiet nuance and tears of hope. Jelly Ear's pensive cautious dance evokes the dreams of a world long past. Contained cacophony buzzes with energy of a bucolic babbling brook.