Tagged: Jazz
3 music festivals in Calgary to look forward to this summer
by Riggs Zyrille Vergara, Publishing Editor With provincial and city-wide pandemic regulations easing, many businesses started re-opening and inviting more consumers back into their establishments. One of the sectors hit the hardest last year were...
Boombox creates art in unlikely places
Decidedly Jazz makes effort for Fluid Festival Miranda Holliday-Brookwell Contributor Decidedly Jazz dancer Catherine Hayward performs as much with her eyes as she does with her body. Staring the crowd down, she...
Jazz hands reach out to community
MRU’s jazz choir rings in second year with new leadership by Nathan Ross The Reflector Last year — to very little fanfare — a vocal jazz choir started at Mount Royal University....
Former MRU student hosts local Jazz Jam
by Michael Bull The Reflector In 2005, Matt Doherty was working at Broken City when a new weekly showcase featuring some of Calgary’s best and brightest young jazz musicians reignited his love of music....
10 ways to entertain yourself on campus
by Claire Miglionico Arts Editor 1. Join a club. There are tons of clubs on campus that may tickle your fancy. Take the Art History Society Club for example. You meet up with like-minded...
Old college friends form six-piece soul band
by Kevin Rushworth For the members of Calgary six-piece soul band Joanna and the Acrobatiks, a live show is a chance for the band to give and receive the vibes of jazz on stage...
When studying goes oh-so right
by Reflector Staff Students know that feverish university research begins long before you set yourself down into a blue plastic chair in September. In the early years of post-secondary school, you may have spent...
Finding that perfect balance
by Sean-Paul Boynton “I think you really need that combination of the academic and the practical. To spend time with the instrument, that creates a huge upside to teaching.” To say that Tyler Hornby...
Back by popular demand
With the words “wow” and “flutter” in the title of Decidedly Jazz Danceworks’ 2008 show, people can be forgiven if they don’t immediately think of turntables or variations of speed, sound and frequency distortion....
