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I've been enjoying the fall colours, and have had plenty of opportunity for highway driving recently. I've wrapped up my second season as Artistic Director of the Summer Music…
The Cuban Research Institute, the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, and the Libraries at Florida International University announced the winners of the 2023 Díaz-Ayala Library Travel Grant competition. The awards are offered in honour of Cristóbal Díaz-Ayala, the…
For those new to the blog….hello and welcome! I'm glad that you're joining. This January, I'll head to Mexico City to finish researching for my mambo project! I'm excited to visit archival collections in the…
Every week, the TD Toronto Jazz Festival asks a different local artist to provide their unique perspective on the pandemic experience from a musician’s point of view Educators, composers and partners bassist Paco Luviano (PL) and vocalist Hannah Burge Luviano…
Vocalist Hannah Burgé’s debut album, Green River Sessions, is a nice mix of jazz and world music elements. Though she is based in Ontario, clearly part of her soul is residing in Latin America. Approximately half…
Toronto singer Hannah Burgé’s debut album Green River Sessions finds its heart in mid-to-late 20th century international jazz currents, (re)influenced as they were by bossa nova, Cuban and…
The act of singing may be described as producing musical sounds with the voice to augment regular speech, by the use of both tonality and rhythm. This would suggest that anyone who…