News from the Prairie regional office of the Canadian Music Centre.

ArcherFest 2025: Celebrating the life and legacy of Violet Archer

Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region Presents: ArcherFest, November 22 & 23 Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Violet Archer The Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region is proud to present: ArcherFest, a celebration dedicated to the life and legacy of Violet Archer! To celebrate CMC Prairie’s 45th anniversary and the 25th anniversary of Violet Archer’s death, [...]

By |2025-10-22T10:13:26-06:006 October 2025|Categories: News|

Amuksism. You really have to listen.

In this documentary, Indigenous composers, musicians, artists and scholars, as well as representatives from the COC and CMC discuss what’s at stake when settler artists misappropriate and misuse indigenous song and ceremony and how to broach a move towards reparation and redress.

By |2025-06-17T11:56:10-06:0017 June 2025|Categories: News|

Richard O. Burdick’s Latest Releases

CD 88 - Beautifully Relentless, Op. 322 (Ying/Yang Melody Cycle) for three horns, piano and drums The I Ching can be organized in a circle. It is a gradual pattern like the changes in weather through a year. There are beautiful patterns including fascinating opposites. He has organized this set into a pattern which has [...]

By |2025-02-18T14:22:34-07:0018 February 2025|Categories: Composer Spotlight, News, Prairie|Tags: , |
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