We are called Singers because calling us a choir seems a bit formal with its attendant expectation of trained singers with a high level of discipline. We’re a bunch of older Scotsmen who like to sing and have a lot of fun doing so.The program content was chosen to present a selection of Scottish songs,...
An invitation for patrons and visitors to join us and experience the joy of the season through live performances by talented local artists!Experience the joy of the season in the Archway through live performances by talented local artists that bring music, energy, and connection to our outdoor space. This welcoming community activation invites patrons and...
Join Chest Fever & friends for a tribute and celebration of The Band's 1976 iconic concert event - The Last Waltz. Featuring an all-star local horn section in Calgary and local guests performing the well loved roles of the original star studded cast including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and more. Follow Chest Fever...
An Aussie indie-folk singer-songwriter living between Melbourne and Calgary, pairing soulful vocals and guitar with honest songs about connection, identity and finding home.NOAH. is an Australian indie-folk singer-songwriter living between Melbourne and Calgary. Over the past three years, his travels through Canada and beyond have shaped songs inspired by movement, changing landscapes, unexpected connections and...
Join us Halloween weekedong for two-full nights of costumes, country music and Halloween chaos featuring LIONEER live on stage Friday and EN02 Saturday, with SO & SO DJs keeping the party going late both nights.Come dressed up, bring the whole crew and get ready for one seriously rowdy night.$15 presale tickets. Prices will increase—and tickets...
This is Halloween, but make it emo.Emo Halloween is taking over Hudsons Calgary Downtown for a Halloween night dedicated to the songs that raised us, ruined our MySpace bios and somehow still know exactly what we’re going through.Expect My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Avril Lavigne, Bring Me The Horizon, Pierce The Veil, blink-182...
Disco Divine Friday, October 30th at 9PMThis Halloween, Sweet Loretta invites you through the pearly gates to enter an afterlife of desire, decadence, and heavenly temptation. Come dressed to ascend; an angel, a god, or whatever form your higher self takes. Blessings from us await the truly devoted. DJs:Main Floor - JADÉ x Sie_SieBasement -...
Join us for an evening of music, celebration, and spectacle as four artists from distinctly different musical worlds come together for one night. Victoria Lies is a Canadian metal-core band whose music blends cinematic atmosphere, melody, and storytelling to create a world of its own. Their music invites you to leave the familiar behind and...
Get ready to celebrate Navratri like never before! As a cornerstone of the Gujarati Mandal of Calgary’s historic 50th Golden Jubilee year, we are thrilled to bring you four spectacular nights of devotion, music, and dance at the BMO Centre, in downtown Calgary.With an exclusive, highly anticipated lineup of four mega musical artists already confirmed...
Revel in beautiful symphonic sound in this Calgary Phil concert, which culminates with Robert Schumann’s Fourth Symphony — a free-flowing fantasy. Michelle Di Russo also leads the Orchestra in Gabriela Ortiz’s vibrant tribute to pioneering musical figure Clara Schumann. Columbian cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia stars in Édouard Lalo's theatrical concerto.
Join us Halloween weekedong for two-full nights of costumes, country music and Halloween chaos featuring LIONEER live on stage Friday and EN02 Saturday, with SO & SO DJs keeping the party going late both nights.Come dressed up, bring the whole crew and get ready for one seriously rowdy night.$15 presale tickets. Prices will increase—and tickets...
Hang The DJ presents Halloween 2026 "I Choose You Too"Our annual Halloween party is the biggest Hang The DJ event of the year with full custom decor and storyline, a massive dance floor of 80s, 90s, and 2000s underground and alternative hits, the best costumes in town, and a ton of cash prizes. This is...
The doors creak open and Calgary's most haunted theatre comes alive.This Halloween, The Palace transforms into a house of chaos — dim lights, dark beats, instense fog, costumes that kill, and a dance floor possessed until 2am. Dress to haunt. Expect DJs, drink specials, costume contest, prizes, and a Palace you’ve never seen before.If you...
Halloween Haunt takes over Hudsons Calgary Downtown on October 31st for a full night of costumes, bad decisions and seeing people you know dressed as people you definitely don’t know.Expect a packed dance floor with party anthems, throwbacks, hip-hop, pop and Halloween favourites all night. Come dressed as Wednesday. Come dressed as Shrek. Come dressed...
With joyful urgency, we have co-imagined and co-designed an experience for curious minds seeking deeper connection to themselves, to one another, and to the world around them, through the inviting and transformative embrace of the arts.Together, we explore the questions we're often afraid to ask, but suspect everyone else is quietly wrestling with too. Think...
Get ready to celebrate Navratri like never before! As a cornerstone of the Gujarati Mandal of Calgary’s historic 50th Golden Jubilee year, we are thrilled to bring you four spectacular nights of devotion, music, and dance at the BMO Centre, in downtown Calgary.With an exclusive, highly anticipated lineup of four mega musical artists already confirmed...
Experience the ultimate Halloween scare with a screening of the 1922 silent horror classic Nosferatu, featuring live, bone-chilling improvised pipe organ accompaniment by Carlos Foggin at Knox United Church in Calgary.
Liner Notes: Inside the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio is part storytelling tour, part listening session, exploring the legendary albums recorded in the "Sistine Chapel of rock 'n' roll." Step back in time and experience Mystery to Me as it was recorded through the RSM.Guided by one of the National Music Centre's talented musician-educators, each tour...
Born from the womb of Y2K techno paranoia, dance-punk mega duo Death From Above 1979 have been a cathartic through-line since 2001. Every now and then they come to fly their jumbo jet sound into the skyscrapers that the zeitgeist has erected. In 2026, they once again blast off celebrating their 25th anniversary with a...
A can't miss evening featuring extraordinary Canadian musicians popping up to entertain and support the event. Join us for some incredible music, food by Maisie Eatery, and inspiring stories of Canadian youth doing amazing things in our communities. All in support of the Tidbits of Change Foundation.
The Smashing Pumpkins: The Rats In A Cage Tour begins in September 2026. After kicking off in Columbus, Ohio, the Grammy-winning rock band will tour North America through early November before wrapping with a final show at the Darker Waves music festival at Huntington State Beach in Orange County, California.
Acclaimed Canadian vocalist Dawn Pemberton celebrates the women who helped shape the jazz vocal tradition in Portraits of the First Ladies of Jazz. From Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday to Sarah Vaughan and more, this special performance honours some of jazz’s most celebrated voices and the music they made famous.A vibrant and soulful Canadian vocalist...
Join JUNO-nominated pianist Anthony D'Alessandro and seven-time YYC Music Award-winning vocalist and radio host Kate Stevens for their return to the Honens stage presented in partnership with JazzYYC, performing a mix of jazz & soul by the likes of George Gershwin, Oscar Peterson, Edith Piaf, and more!The performance takes place inside the CORE Shopping Centre...
“Spirit of Ukraine” returns to ProArts@Noon by special request, featuring vocalists Stephania Romaniuk and Lyudmyla Heath, violinist Anastasiia Lykhosherstova, pianist Olesia Voloshchuk Gural and members of Korinnya and Pereveslo Ukrainian choirs of Calgary.This non-traditional vocal recital that recounts through music the two months before, and the two months following, the fully fledged invasion of Ukraine....
Longtime musical collaborators Steve Pineo and Laura Jackson bring decades of shared musical history together with a blues-focused mix of roots, soul and Canadiana.A fixture of Calgary’s music scene for more than four decades, Pineo is a guitarist, singer and prolific songwriter whose music has crossed blues, roots, country, jazz and rock and roll. His...
Enjoy soul-stirring music performed by your Calgary Phil. Karen Kamensek leads Tchaikovsky’s heart-rending final symphony, which the composer himself said “is the best and most sincere thing I have ever composed.” Arvo Pärt’s mesmerizing Fratres opens the concert, after which the Calgary Philharmonic Chorus joins the Orchestra in Vaughan Williams’s passionate plea for peace.
What if there was one object that embodied the countless stories of a truly diverse Canada?The Six String Nation guitar, officially nicknamed Voyageur, is a unique steel-string acoustic instrument constructed from 64 pieces of Canadian history and heritage, representing diverse cultures, communities, and events from every province and territory. Conceived by broadcaster Jowi Taylor and...
What if there was one object that embodied the countless stories of a truly diverse Canada?The Six String Nation guitar, officially nicknamed Voyageur, is a unique steel-string acoustic instrument constructed from 64 pieces of Canadian history and heritage, representing diverse cultures, communities, and events from every province and territory. Conceived by broadcaster Jowi Taylor and...
No minors. Must be 18+ with valid gov't issued ID for entry. Online tickets will go off sale at 4 p.m. day of show and will then be available to purchase starting at door time at the venue will call only (subject to availability).
Don't miss the d'Linquint at Gulbar!The d'Linquint are a Kimberley, B.C.-based jazz trio consisting of longtime collaborators Bryan Reichert (guitar), Tess Reichert (bass), and Chad Andriowski (drums). After relocating to a small mountain town in the East Kootenays, they transformed their previous band, Tess and the d'Linquint, and embraced mountain adventures in Jazz.An opportunity to...
National Music Centre, StoryMusic, and Green Fools Theatre team up to present Little Red Riding Hood with Beethoven — a one-of-a-kind storytelling concert with live music and puppetry!This show features Beethoven's dynamic String Quartet No. 11 with Liza Scriggins' version of the much loved fairy tale and puppets by Green Fools Theatre.Join vocalist Julie Freedman...
National Music Centre, StoryMusic, and Green Fools Theatre team up to present Little Red Riding Hood with Beethoven — a one-of-a-kind storytelling concert with live music and puppetry!
National Music Centre, StoryMusic, and Green Fools Theatre team up to present Little Red Riding Hood with Beethoven — a one-of-a-kind storytelling concert with live music and puppetry!This show features Beethoven's dynamic String Quartet No. 11 with Liza Scriggins' version of the much loved fairy tale and puppets by Green Fools Theatre.Join vocalist Julie Freedman...
During this four-week guitar class, participants will explore a range of songwriting possibilities using one string! Artists will listen to popular one-string riffs (think “Smoke on the Water”) to inspire their own original compositions.Please note that this class is best suited for artists who:Are comfortable with tasks that require focused attention, repetition, and the development...
Remembrance Day is a time for inward contemplation, profound gratitude, and hope. This concert uses the music of Mozart, Schubert and Chopin to provide a backdrop of sound for the listener to reflect and remember.
At just 19, Keira Myer is already performing across Alberta on stages including the Big Valley Jamboree, CFCW’s Heartstrings & Honkytonks, and the Calgary Stampede. Blending heartfelt songwriting with a sound defined by depth, warmth, and a little grit, Myer centres her artistry on building genuine connections through authentic country storytelling.
Step into Studio Bell for a rich and heartfelt tribute to Marvin Gaye, one of the most iconic voices in soul music. Settle in, grab a drink, and enjoy an evening of live music celebrating the songs and sound that helped define a generation.From Let's Get It On and I Heard It Through The Grapevine...
Step into Studio Bell for a heartfelt tribute to Marvin Gaye, one of soul music’s most iconic voices. Settle in, grab a drink, and enjoy live music celebrating the songs that helped define a generation.Hear favourites like “Let’s Get It On,” “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” “What’s Going On?”...
Get ready to rock out!Headlined by Alan Doyle and featuring The Strumbellas, the Thursday Night Concert will be high energy and an unforgettable night of live music.
Step into Studio Bell for a heartfelt tribute to Marvin Gaye, one of soul music’s most iconic voices. Settle in, grab a drink, and enjoy live music celebrating the songs that helped define a generation.Hear favourites like “Let’s Get It On,” “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” “What’s Going On?”...
Get in a “New York State of Mind” in this can’t-miss celebration of the iconic songs of Billy Joel!The debonair Tony DeSare joins the Calgary Phil as they perform unique takes on some of the “Piano Man’s” most beloved hits, including Uptown Girl, Don’t Ask Me Why, The Stranger, She’s Always a Woman, and many...
This Toronto-based troubadour crafts big-hearted indie-folk songs for dreamers, wanderers and hopeless romantics. From fingerpicked confessionals to foot-stomping, full-band singalongs, his recent album Nomad captures his spirit. It’s rooted in the restless beauty of “inbetween-ness,” with Muirhead’s reflections on heartbreak, wanderlust, homesickness, nostalgia and self-discovery. As he says “These in-betweens are where we ask big...
Join us at Studio Bell, home of the National Music Centre, for Synth Soundbath, a new monthly series exploring the intersection of wellness and music technology.SYNC 2026: Sound and Image Conference is bringing electronic music, digital art, live visuals, and video together all day and into the night on November 14. It’s your chance to...
Get in a “New York State of Mind” in this can’t-miss celebration of the iconic songs of Billy Joel!The debonair Tony DeSare joins the Calgary Phil as they perform unique takes on some of the “Piano Man’s” most beloved hits, including Uptown Girl, Don’t Ask Me Why, The Stranger, She’s Always a Woman, and many...
Close out the festival with the Saturday Night Country Concert, presented by Bud Light. Featuring a country music headliner, this concert brings Calgary's Western roots and Grey Cup Festival spirit together.We aren't revealing the artist just yet… but trust us, you’re going to want a ticket. This is one secret you’ll want to be in...
Get in a “New York State of Mind” in this can’t-miss celebration of the iconic songs of Billy Joel!The debonair Tony DeSare joins the Calgary Phil as they perform unique takes on some of the “Piano Man’s” most beloved hits, including Uptown Girl, Don’t Ask Me Why, The Stranger, She’s Always a Woman, and many...
During this four-week guitar class, participants will explore a range of songwriting possibilities using one string! Artists will listen to popular one-string riffs (think “Smoke on the Water”) to inspire their own original compositions.Please note that this class is best suited for artists who:Are comfortable with tasks that require focused attention, repetition, and the development...
Join your Calgary Phil for a free noon-hour concert at Brookfield Place, presented by Brookfield Properties. The Orchestra, led by Resident Conductor Ilan Mendel, will be performing holiday favourites, classic Christmas carols, and more.Grab your lunch and meet us for a fun performance that is sure to get you in the holiday spirit!
Formed in Istanbul in 1995, mor ve ötesi is one of the leading names in Turkish rock. In over three decades, the band has built a distinctive sound combining alternative rock with powerful songwriting and memorable live performances.Their landmark 2004 album Dünya Yalan Söylüyor introduced some of their best-known songs, including “Bir Derdim Var” and...
Join Brandi to celebrate the release of her debut solo album Living Room.This will also be the first time the album will be available on vinyl!Brandi Caroline is a Canadian alt-country artist crafting cinematic Americana rooted in the wide-open landscapes of the Canadian Prairies. Blending intimate storytelling with echoes of 1970s rock, folk-country, and orchestral...
Emilie-Claire Barlow has long been on the wish list of artists to host at BJP and we are delighted to bring the music of this outstanding chanteuse to our Calgary community. The recipient of a Félix and two JUNO Awards, Emilie-Claire has garnered over 500 million streams and performed on stages around the world. Joyful...
Award-winning violinist Maria Ioudenich joins conductor Ramon Tebar and your Calgary Phil for Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5, also known as the Turkish Concerto, which transitions from delightful dialogue between soloist and orchestra to an enchanting evocation of rhythms wafting from an Istanbul cafe. Then, get carried away by Mahler's Fifth Symphony, a breathtaking musical...
Award-winning violinist Maria Ioudenich joins conductor Ramon Tebar and your Calgary Phil for Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5, also known as the Turkish Concerto, which transitions from delightful dialogue between soloist and orchestra to an enchanting evocation of rhythms wafting from an Istanbul cafe. Then, get carried away by Mahler's Fifth Symphony, a breathtaking musical...
Celebrate the season East Coast-style at Studio Bell as The Barra MacNeils fill the hall with soaring harmonies, fiery fiddles, and the joyful spirit of a Cape Breton Christmas.The Barra MacNeils — An East Coast Christmas is a musical potpourri of traditional MacNeil family favourites gleaned from Christmas ceilidhs, midnight masses, and the general festive...
Calgary Bach Choir, directed by Terry EdwardsWith UCalgary Chorus, led by Kathryn ParrottaProgramPurcell - Welcome to all the pleasures - Ode for Saint Cecilia's Day, 1683Haydn - Kyrie from St. Cecilia Mass, Hob. XXII / 5Vivaldi - Lauda Jerusalem, RV 609Bach - Sheep May Safely Graze from BWV 208Bach - Cantata 50(program subject to change)
Award-winning violinist Maria Ioudenich joins conductor Ramon Tebar and your Calgary Phil for Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5, also known as the Turkish Concerto, which transitions from delightful dialogue between soloist and orchestra to an enchanting evocation of rhythms wafting from an Istanbul cafe. Then, get carried away by Mahler's Fifth Symphony, a breathtaking musical...
During this four-week guitar class, participants will explore a range of songwriting possibilities using one string! Artists will listen to popular one-string riffs (think “Smoke on the Water”) to inspire their own original compositions.Please note that this class is best suited for artists who:Are comfortable with tasks that require focused attention, repetition, and the development...
Take a break from your day and experience the artistry of 2025 Honens Bronze Laureate Anastasia Vorotnaya in a special Piano Project YYC lunch-hour concert at CORE Shopping Centre.As the holiday season begins to shimmer on the horizon, Anastasia brings a program of elegance, colour, and imagination, featuring works by Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Modest...
Ring in the holiday cheer with Byron Stripling and your Calgary Phil! Featuring Striplings’ fabulous arrangements, vibrant singing, and virtuosic trumpet playing, this jazz-inflected symphonic experience will take your festive season to the next level. With favourites like Joy to the World, Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town, and White Christmas, you won’t want to...
Step into Grace Presbyterian Church for an atmospheric Candlelight concert celebrating the music of one of the world's most celebrated vocalists, Adele. Surrounded by the gentle glow of candlelight, enjoy a selection of her most memorable songs performed live by a talented string quartet.From emotional favourites like Someone Like You, When We Were Young, and...
Hailed as one of Canada’s best big bands, Ninth Avenue Band consists of 18 full-time members, and performs live in Calgary, Alberta, and across Canada. The band has a wide range of repertoire suited for audiences of all ages and musical tastes, from traditional jazz charts to funk, R & B, and Latin.The band’s members...
In 2015, award-winning soprano Sarah Jo Kirsch delivered a tour-de-force performance of Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre that left our audience breathless and the Calgary Herald declaring: “Ms. Kirsch’s performance itself was the masterpiece.”Along with conductor Claude Lapalme, and to kick off our 30th anniversary season, she returns for a reprise Ligeti’s legendary composition in...
During this four-week guitar class, participants will explore a range of songwriting possibilities using one string! Artists will listen to popular one-string riffs (think “Smoke on the Water”) to inspire their own original compositions.Please note that this class is best suited for artists who:Are comfortable with tasks that require focused attention, repetition, and the development...
With joyful urgency, we have co-imagined and co-designed an experience for curious minds seeking deeper connection to themselves, to one another, and to the world around them, through the inviting and transformative embrace of the arts.Together, we explore the questions we're often afraid to ask, but suspect everyone else is quietly wrestling with too. Think...
Victoria BC-based Jesse Roper is a modern-day troubadour with an authentic and adventurous spirit. He and longtime bandmates the Pretty Good Band have travelled the highways, byways and backroads of North America, bringing modern, indie-infused Americana blues to fervent audiences across the continent. Known for his powerhouse, electrifying live performances, his soulful vocals expand across...
Ring in the holidays as Geoffrey Paterson leads the Orchestra, Chorus, and a festive ensemble of soloists for Rachmaninoff’s choral masterpiece, The Bells — named by the composer as one of his two personal favourite works. Then let your imagination conjure beautiful visions of frosty landscapes with Tchaikovsky’s First Symphony, also known as Winter Daydreams.
The perfect festive outing: join us for a magical afternoon of iconic film scores, holiday nostalgia, and spectacular musical talent.Expect a selection of film scores, including It’s a Wonderful Life, The Holiday, Love Actually, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Charlie Brown Christmas, The Red Violin, and many more.