Dan Brodbeck is program director for Fanshawe College’s music industry arts program, which has been named as the best music school at the Canadian Music Week awards. Brodbeck says faculty see their work as more than a job. (MIKE HENSEN, The London Free Press)
Adjudicator Alde Calongcagong, from Windsor, speaks to Lin Qi Core, 10, of Sarnia following her performance Wednesday April 26, 2017 at the Sarnia Library Theatre, during the Lambton County Music Festival. The festival, now in its 88th year, continues next week at venues around Sarnia. Paul Morden/Sarnia Observer/Postmedia Network
The Lambton County Music Festival is growing again.
Got a neighbour who loves to rock around the clock, at maximum volume?
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Learning to read and play music has never been more fun.
That’s because historical musicians like Beethoven and Mozart are now teaching the kids in the Lower Sackville Boys & Girls Club how to play the piano.
Through a new computer program called MusIQ HomeSchool, which was launched at the B&G Club on March 28, children are learning to play and read music, as well as improvise and compose songs on a weekly basis.
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A woman holds a program outside The Pageant, a concert venue where a celebration of life is set to start for rock ‘n’ roll legend Chuck Berry and where Berry often performed on Sunday in St. Louis, Mo. (Jeff Roberson/Associated Press)Family, friends and fans paid their final respects to the rock ‘n’ roll legend Chuck Berry on Sunday, celebrating the life and career of a man who inspired countless guitarists and bands in the only way possible: with music.
The celebration began with a public viewing at The Pageant, a music club in Berry’s hometown of St. Louis, Mo., where he often played. Hundreds of fans filed past Berry, whose beloved cherry-red Gibson guitar was bolted to the inside of his coffin’s lid. Continue reading “‘The music will live on forever’: Fans say farewell to rock icon Chuck Berry” »
Several special-edition releases from Prince make up some of our most-anticipated offerings from Record Store Day 2017. Kristian Dowling/Getty Images for Lotusflow3r.com
This weekend marks the 10th anniversary of Record Store Day, but its success isn’t a phoenix-rising-from-the-ashes story.
At least, Record Store Day’s co-founder Michael Kurtz, who helps organize the independent record stores’ bi-annual celebration’s special album and single releases, doesn’t remember it that way. According to him, a decade ago independent record stores were not thrown into panic as giant music retailers—Tower, Virgin Megastore, and HMV—went the way of the Dodo, and the iPod rose as the supposed future of music “consumption.”
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