EarlyMusicNews.Org

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

"How truly marvelous is the human voice? It is our first instrument. Its power remains unmatched to express feeling, to convey colour and tone. It is the ultimate inspiration for any instrumentalist who aspires to create a beautiful phrase. ..."

Although, not a strictly an exclusive "early music festival", the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival does have early music events of interest, in particular the "Lute Legends Ensemble"; "Les Voix Baroques"; "La Nef Early Music Ensemble"; "Tiberius Quartet"; "La Rose des Vents"; "Pallade Musica"

From the latest Lark Camp 2013 newsletter (June 2013)

"Lark In The Morning Music Celebration was started in 1980 to provide a venue to allow traditional musicians and dancers to get together and share their music & dance (A music & dance party with educational overtones). This event is an open forum for musicians, singers & dancers to exchange ideas and learn without being in a rigid school structure. ...

More workshops have been added; you may now find the schedule of classes and evening events on the Lark website ...

"Have you ever heard a wonderful piece of music on the radio and then tried to track down a copy on CD?

ArkivMusic works with most classical radio stations in the U.S. to help with that search. But early on, we realized that many of those recordings (over half) are actually out of print.

So some years ago we started our ArkivCD program ...

"A manuscript of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) has been discovered by researcher Peter Wollny in a collection in Weissenfels.  ...

"Occasionally we run across interesting historical snippets scribbled by highly-opinionated observers of the contemporary culture of a different age, and we are compelled to share them despite the unpleasant reality check."