Emeli Sande plays The Drake | Toronto Star Singer Emeli Sandé topped U.K. charts with her debut, Version of Our Events, and received the Critics’ Choice Brit Award. HANDOUT PHOTO Emeli Sandé, who plays The Drake on Wednesday, is the next big thing from the U.K. Nick Krewen Special to the Star Published on Tue Mar 06 2012 Looking for the Next Big Thing? You can find her Wednesday night onstage at…
Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes leaps from the page | Toronto Star Lawrence Hill will read from his bestselling The Book of Negroes accompanied by live music in concert at Koerner Hall. By: Nick Krewen Special to the Star, Published on Sun Feb 12 2012 Bestselling novel The Book of Negroes is going multimedia. On Valentine’s Day, the Nathaniel Dett Chorale, led by founder and artistic director Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, is teaming up with author Lawrence…
Entertainment / Music Brighton-based band brings its trademark electronic funk to Toronto’s Wrongbar on Tuesday. Nick Krewen Special to the Star Published on Fri Jan 20 2012 No matter how badly they desire, some bands can’t seem to shake the parameters of their own sonic fingerprint. At least that’s how Fujiya & Miyagi’s David Best perceives it. He says his band has been trying for ages to drastically reinvent its sound. He…
Entertainment / Music Etobicoke native Al Spx, turns heads in London, is now in Toronto opening for St. Vincent on Thursday. Al Spx is Cold Specks. Nick Krewen Special to the Star Published on Wed Dec 14 2011 If you were a betting soul, you could safely wager that Cold Specks is glad her telemarketing days are over. But it was only recently that 23-year-old Etobicoke native Al Spx,…
Herbie Hancock gives it all a try | Toronto Star Longtime Gershwin fan’s Massey Hall show just latest outlet for broad-minded creator. Herbie Hancock at home with keyboards both acoustic and electronic … thanks to Miles Davis. Nick Krewen Special to the Star Published on Thu Oct 20 2011 Legendary jazz innovator Herbie Hancock might be considered something of a prodigy, but that doesn’t mean he’s taking his upcoming…
