By Lauren Kramer

Some folks who’ve experienced celebrity look completely different in person to how they look on stage or on the covers of the albums, - but Idan Raichel is not one of them. A few days ago I had the opportunity of meeting him back stage at the UBC Chan Centre for the Performing [...]

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by Lauren Kramer
 

The Idan Raichel Project is a band whose music consistently tingles my skin and makes me yearn to get back to Israel. So I was thrilled to learn that Raichel and his team will be traveling to Vancouver March 4 to perform for the opening night of the Chutzpah Festival at the Jewish [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal
 
Do you remember the funny flick from the early 90’s entitled Cool Runnings?
 
Starring the late Canadian iconic actor John Candy, the film loosely portrayed the real-life comedic tale of Jamaica’s national bobsled team and their odyssey at the 1988 Calgary Olympics.
 
Well, a new version of this funny and somewhat fascinating story is [...]

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By Staff
On November 24th, 1984, one of the most famous music recordings in history, “Band Aid,” took place at a studio in North London.  On April 30th, 2008, this arrangement of Oseh Shalom was recorded in the very same studio.
Featureing the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, Sir Jonathan Sacks, this song is the finale [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal
 

Vancouver is in for a dose of musical comfort as Israeli artists’ Habanot Nechama - The Comfort Girls - are coming to town.
The three lady vocalists will play at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver’s Norman Rothstein Theatre on January 17, 2010.
Singers Yael Deckelbaum, Karolina Avratz and Dana Adini are renowned [...]

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The team at Canada’s Israel would like to wish you a happy chanukah!

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By Adam Michael Segal
It’s been almost 15 years since the Aviv String Quartet first struck a chord with audiences and they continue to dazzle chamber music enthusiasts.
Most recently, the quartet appeared at Winnipeg’s Berney Theatre as part of the Israel Concern Series.
True to form, they displayed their talents, playing songs by some of the greats, [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal
 
They are talented artists and venerable poster girls for Arab-Israeli solidarity and they came to Canada for the very first time.
 
Israeli singer Achinoam Nini a.k.a. Noa and her Arab-Israeli sidekick, actress and songwriter Mira Anwar Awad, paired up for a performance at the Partners for Peace Tribute dinner at the Fairmont Royal York hotel [...]

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By Lauren Kramer

International Guitar Night is the longest running mobile guitar festival in North America, and when it kicked off its Canadian tour in Vancouver November 5, Israeli guitarist, pianist and composer Itamar Erez was among the performers.
Erez leads the Adama World Music Ensemble, [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal

In a fabulous display of cultural diversity, performers of many stripes danced, drummed and sang their hearts out in Winnipeg recently to jointly celebrate Tel Aviv’s centennial.

A crowd of more than 500 people at The Pantages Theatre took part in the dynamic event, which was put on by the Manitoba-Israel Shared Values [...]

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