By Greg Andruszczenko
Canada has a wealth of resources—from beer to turbot, maple syrup to canola oil. But from sea to shining sea, one of our best exports is our music.
We have the big names: Brian Adams, Celine Dion, k.d. lang; and we have the smaller names: Big Sugar, Barenaked Ladies and Cub—all recognizable outside our borders. Any way you slice the country you are never far from great music, and this week is dedicated to the celebration of some of the best music in Canada. If you are yet unaware, we are half way into Canadian music week, a celebration involving over 250 performers and a solid week of live Canadian music at virtually every venue in Toronto.
One of the “new” additions to the showcase this week is an Internet concert. All the hype about the wave of the future, multimedia (a fancy term for computer sound and images), will have to prove effective as a means of broadcast. At Metro Toronto Convention Centre this Saturday, the heavily Doors-inspired Tea Party will be playing an almost real-time concert from Windsor over the Internet and the World Wide Web. Unfortunately an internet concert is by no means a new development, neither are the interactive CD’s that will be showcased at the Convention Centre. The Rolling Stones were pioneers in Internet concerting, and sadly the Tea party concert seems to be Canada’s response to the Stones. With all the original music being celebrated this week something more original should have been concocted…like zapping the band with 120 volts. People would have paid to see that.
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