Part of the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound longing for _, the debut album of Toronto-based percussionist Yang Chen manages to do the unthinakable: showcase their audacious eclecticism, sharp curatorial sensibility, and exceptional skill all at the same time. As such, Chen is right at home on the celebrated cross-border imprint People Places […]
Part of the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound Medusa is a unique chamber-folk quartet that blends the Western string quartet (violin, viola and cello), with Polish knee fiddles, Greek lira, and Swedish Nyckelharpa. We intertwine the sounds of Middle Eastern, Scandinavian, Celtic, and Eastern European music to create something entirely new. The instruments […]
Part of the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound Melody McKiver is a electro-violist and composer based in Treaty #1, Winnipeg Manitoba. They are an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Music in the Desaultels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba, and a member of Obishikokaang First Nation in neighbouring Treaty #3. Quoted by […]