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Since the early 2000s, Festival Director and musical curator Cem Zafir has been presenting diverse, exploratory, and engaging concerts via his non-profit organization, Zula Presents. After moving to Hamilton, Ontario in 2012, Cem seized on the opportunity to create an early summer music festival. The Something Else! Fe

What, exactly, is mastering? Is it a potion? A spell? A hoax? The truth is, it"s a subtle and precise art, and a key element of quality music production. It is music"s "x-factor", its "special sauce".  Despite often being perceived as some kind of magic, mastering is, in fact, very real, as are the people who do it for

Multi-award-winning instrumentalist, singer, recording artist and composer, Anne Lindsay is celebrating many things this year: 60 years as a violinist, 50 years as a professional musician, and the launch of her brand new album, Soloworks 2.  Described as "chamber folk music for solo violin and nyckelharpa", Soloworks 2

"Whatever I"m painting, I feel like there"s music that finds its way in". — Stewart Jones For artist, musician, and educator Stewart Jones, music is an integral part of his visual art practice. He"s a self-proclaimed "uber fan" of the bands he loves. Not only are many of his works inspired by songs, but his drawings an

Musician/composer/improvisors Ronley Teper and Tim Posgate have been making wildly creative music together for 15 years or more. Their partnership is based on trust, understanding, and the endless desire to push the boundaries of song and creativity. This is a colourful conversation with two extremely hard-working, ent

A very special literary romp to round off the year! This "bookish" episode features the well-read, candid, and occasionally irreverent members of "Buckner"s Bookies", a ladies-only book club that meets every few weeks around a dinner table, to talk books, culture, food, politics, and—of course—trashy TV. Sex, drugs, ro