Paying tribute to departed and living musicians via memorial tributes and awards is a way of lifting up artists’ significant roles defining and shaping musical innovation and cultural identity.
- Professor of music, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University
Meditations on improvisation in a year of both COVID-19 and what some called ‘the other pandemic’ of racism push us to go deeper to find ways to sustain healthy public common life.
When you listen to music, be sure to turn your ear to its social messages. Canadian songs have a lot of important things to say.
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