Years back, my dad started an ice business after urgings from my brother and I. We would work the business in the summer as part time work in a family business. Our dad owned a refrigeration business – my brother and I worked the ice business. It helped pay for our school tuitions. In the... More
Doug Wong is an exceptional photographer. The colour and diversity of Calgary’s arts scene is captured through his snapshots. Doug is respected for his work as CEO at Digital Video Masters Canada, VP Sales and Marketing at Canada Disc and Tape Inc. and as Co-owner of award winning Sundae Sound Studio. His artistic eye captures... More
Sound, lights and stage set up; print, radio and television interviews; rehearsals and show runs with live audiences; and four live performances. Revv52 presents “British Rhapsody” Thursday May 9 – Saturday May 11th in Calgary. Show times: 8 pm nightly with a 2 pm Saturday matinee. “British Rhapsody” represents the best of British music performed... More
“Dedicate yourself to the development of your natural talents and abilities, by doing what you love to do, and doing it better and better in the service of a cause that is greater than yourself.” (Stephen Covey) That’s at the heart of teaching. On the first Monday in May, CBC celebrates music education across the... More
The group I saw last weekend was testimony to what makes great art. The drummer who played with sticks in a New York subway decided that he needed to do something different – other drummers played better than him. So he decided to play with his fingers taped with chucks of wood attached to his... More
He sings the stories of his music with passion – there is real truth and honesty in his songs. We’ve been working together since the fall with his vocals – the bar is set high. His work ethic is focused – he is determined. He has a story to tell. If he wasn’t a hockey... More
The CBC documentary DOCS aired this week with a focus on “memory”. This interests me in my work with Parkinson’s patients and with artists who perform their songlists by memory onstage in concert with changes over the course of a long tour. Some of the findings might surprise you. Here’s the list based on the... More
Plays, musicals, music, shopping, foods, site seeing from the the Top of the Rock – you can see, hear and taste it all in New York! Highlights of a quick trip that included the new play on Broadway: “Lucky Guy” with Tom Hanks and a cast of movie and television actors, Off Off Broadway play:... More
They hire the creative team and designers. They collaborate with the casting director during auditions, work contracts for equity and non-equity actors through their agents, sanction the show with the equity union to establish it as an equity production, hire and supervise the production crew of lighting designers, sound techs, the stage manager and the... More
Sometimes our challenges as artists are tangled in a web of uncertainty about “who we are” and “where we want to go. “A poem titled “The Not” by Ronald Lang: There is something I don’t know that I am supposed to know, I don’t know what it is I don’t know and yet I’m supposed... More
I wanted to thank you for a great session yesterday. I practiced as many exercises as I could remember all day long. My voice never got tired or tight. The placement of the vowels was a huge factor. I recorded myself a few minutes ago and I didn't recognize the smooth and effortless voice that came at me. I am impressed with what one session has done. I realize this is only the beginning , but the results impressed me so much that I had to write.
Chris Sandvoss
Symphony Violist / Songwriter / Land's End Chamber Ensemble
Years back, my dad started an ice business after urgings from my brother and... more.
Doug Wong is an exceptional photographer. The colour and diversity of Calgary’s arts scene... more.
Sound, lights and stage set up; print, radio and television interviews; rehearsals and show... more.
“Dedicate yourself to the development of your natural talents and abilities, by doing what... more.