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Meet Director of New Programming Initiatives Jamala Henderson

The Banff Centre has announced the lineup for the International String Quartet Festival, running September 2 - 5, 2021. The program includes a slate of online concerts, talks, and film screenings.

The Zealot Gene in early 2022 through new record label InsideOutMusic/Sony Music. The band has yet to announce a track listing or firm release date for the project, which bandleader Ian Anderson previously teased in March. The current lineup features the frontman (vocals, flute, acoustic guitar, harmonica) alongside guitarist Joe Parrish-James, keyboardist John O'Hara, bassist David Goodier and drummer Scott Hammond. (Guitarist Florian Opahle is credited as "album only.") Anderson celebrated the new record deal in a statement. “After 54 years in the world of music recording, it is with gr...

We continue enjoying summer electropop, new music for wind quintet, and prepare for next week's Momenta Festival with a microtonal piece from 2011. 

An Interview with Hisham Matar Concern. I think that was what I craved. A warm and steady and unchangeable concern. In a time of blood and tears, in a Libya full of bruise-checkered and urine-stained men, urgent with want and longing for relief, I was the ridiculous child craving for concern. And although I didn't think of it then in these terms, my self-pity had soured into self-loathing. —Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men Hisham Matar was born in New York City in 1970 to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoli and then in Cairo. He has lived in the UK since 1986. His d�...