Music festival that was cancelled due to B.C. wildfire back on for a final night

A weekend music festival in southern British Columbia that was cancelled due to an encroaching wildfire was put back on Sunday, although an evacuation alert remained in effect for the area.
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Inside the Mind of an Aspiring Concert Pianist

What’s it like growing up aiming for a classical concert career? WRTI’s Susan Lewis asked a young Canadian pianist Thomas Torok how he manages the music, excitement, and competition.
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The Go-Getter Talks New Music, Art, Change and Creating New Life

Defiance has been a growing trend as of late in Canada. Resisting governance, legalizing weed, and perpetually giving Uber the cold-shoulder. If you’re a visionary, at some point in your life you’ve defied at least once. If you’re a musician chances are you’ve broken at least one law, and if you’re not into the whole law-breaking thing, you could always defy something else; like genre, for instance.
(Beatroute)

Daisy Peterson Sweeney dies at 97

The much-loved and admired piano teacher taught some of Canada’s jazz-greats, including her younger brother Oscar Peterson, and neighbour, Oliver Jones, among hundreds of others
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And Finally