Talking jazz with Mike Essoudry

 Just two years ago the Ottawa Citizen’s Peter Hum suggested that local drummer Mike Essoudry was “downsizing musically”. At the time, a musician who’d surrounded himself with big sounding big bands of up to ten members had decided to pair things down to something smaller. Even at that, there was

Tone Cluster Presents Pop Goes the Choir

 Ottawa Life's Myka Burke chats with Tone Cluster’s Artistic Director Kurt Ala-Kantti. Local LGTBQ choir Tone Cluster – Quite a Queer Choir, known for their sonic versatility, is presenting a pop-themed pre-Christmas season concert on Saturday November 26, 2016 at the Centre Town United Church (507 Bank Street) at 7:30pm. This