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Dev Team
03 Dec 2015

Cocktails with KB: Mark Furukawa aka. Dr. Disc

I met Mark through Erin Dunham and knew I had met a quality Hamiltonian. His love for music is only rivaled by his love for Hamilton. He has been a DJ at many parties and events I have been to, and ha...

Tara Bryk
10 Nov 2015

Classical Meets Community

The Crown Point neighbourhood, an area whose boundaries extend to Gage Avenue, Burlington Street, Kenilworth Avenue and Lawrence Road, is, as Raise the Hammer’s Ryan McGreal put it in 2009 “like t...

Dev Team
01 Sep 2015

Streaming

Streaming… The increasingly insistent sound of summer evening rain: Distracting, seductive, sweetly soothing, Strumming and drumming against the roofs… Against the roofs, Upon each windowp...

Dev Team
26 Aug 2015

All-Access | Get acquainted with the acts of #SuperCrawl2015

Supercrawl is a jewel in Hamilton’s crown. It is a weekend packed with music, art, fashion, and food. The Supercrawl team, led by Tim Poticic and his crew at Sonic Unyon work all year to get g...

Dev Team
07 Aug 2015

The Sounds of Music

The contrast was so powerful, so stark, and so black and white. Two events, two independent, unrelated events, collided in a single week and cause me to question myself, our youth and then our entir...

Dev Team
07 Aug 2015

One Artist at a Time | Jon Harvey

This month’s interview is with Jon Harvey. He’s a born-and-raised Hamiltonian who is now in a band called Monster Truck (maybe you’ve heard of them). He is one of the most...

Dev Team
07 Aug 2015

Hamilton is music to Gemma New’s ears

After a two year search, our friends at the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra have finally found their guy! Er… gal. Not only is Gemma an experienced conductor, having recently finished a fellowsh...

Dev Team
07 Aug 2015

The Beer Sessions with Ash and Bloom

How often have you read interviews with bands and musicians when all the questions and topics of conversations are boring, and revolving around upcoming music, tours, concerts etc. Well, that’s ...

Dev Team
07 Apr 2015

Canadian contemporary composers and artists highlighted by HPO’s What Next Festival of New Music

By HPO Composer-in-Residence Abigail Richardson-Schulte Today’s “contemporary classical” or “new” music can be anything, a result of hundreds of years of change in music composition. For muc...

Dev Team
27 Mar 2015

The Hammer Blues | The Story of The Hamilton Blues Society

Hi, my name is Big Johnny Blue and I love the blues, especially blues played in Hamilton. I have been playing music in Hamilton for almost 45 years, and the thing that always puzzled me is why Hamilto...