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SPEAK MUSIC Be Kind Music Festival (January 17 to 19 2020)

SPEAK MUSIC Be Kind Festival

Please join us and our musical friends at the first annual SPEAK MUSIC Be Kind Festival, happening this weekend, January 17 to 19, at the Tranzac Club (292 Brunswick Avenue, just south of Bloor and west of Spadina).

Darbazi is performing this Saturday, January 18 at 7 PM in the Main Hall of the Tranzac.

Members of Darbazi are also conducting workshops throughout the weekend:

All About the Voice, with:
Maryem Tollar & Laurel MacDonald
Sat Jan 18, 10:00 PM • Tiki Room, Tranzac Club

Not Resting on Their Laurels, with:
Laurel Innes & Laurel MacDonald, Ray Kinoshita and Phil Strong
Sun Jan 19, 6:00 PM • Tiki Room, Tranzac Club

Three-day wristbands – $20 advance | $25 door
Single-day wristbands – $20 door only

Purchase tickets here.

About the festival:
SPEAK Music Be Kind Festival is a non-profit Canadian music festival to be held annually in Toronto, showcasing a diverse blend of Canadian music creators in performances and workshops. All proceeds from this year’s festival will support music-makers in our community through a donation to the Unison Benevolent Fund.

For more information, visit speakmusicbekindfest.com.

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Nuit Blanche at the Aga Khan Museum (Concert Saturday, October 5 2019)

To kick off 2019-2020 (our 24th year of singing together!), we’re delighted to be performing at the Aga Khan Museum as part of the event Arrivals and Encounters: Sama for Nuit Blanche 2019.

We will sing two 30-minute sets in the very early hours of the morning on Sunday October 6: the 1st set at 12:15am and the 2nd set at 1:00am, in a Mongolian yurt located on the museum grounds. It promises to be a beautiful and magical event – we hope to see you there!

Aga Khan Museum Nuit Blanche 2019
Arrivals and Encounters: Sama
Sunday October 6 at 12:15am and at 1:00am
Admission is free

RSVP on Facebook here.

Mongolian yurt at Aga Khan Museum Nuit Blanche

About Sama: Experience music and art from around the world in intimate settings — including Mongolian yurts and a First Nations’ teepee. Sama, Arabic for listening, is the night’s inspiration, and you will be invited to listen to the rhythms and stories of artists whose roots extend around the globe.

Each setting will offer a different experience, including a space dedicated to the music of a sleepless city. Another will feature distinct musical languages from cross-cultural experiments. And yet another site will take you deep into urban life with a virtual reality installation.

Sacred spiritual music and dance, including whirling dervishes, in quiet locations will evoke the city’s contemplative side.

Finally, the outdoor areas will play host to an illuminated sound installation, offering you the chance to experience art while feeling the pulse of the arrivals and encounters that shape this city.

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Yale Russian Chorus in concert with Darbazi (Concert Tuesday, March 12 2019)

Yale Russian Chorus portrait

To help set the tone for the impending warmth of spring, we would like to invite you to a concert on Tuesday, March 12 featuring our special guests and longtime friends the Yale Russian Chorus.

Yale Russian Chorus
in concert with Darbazi
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 8:00 pm

St. David’s Anglican Church
49 Donlands Ave, Toronto
(Just north of Danforth Ave,
at Donlands Subway)
View directions on Google

Admission is PWYC
View the Facebook Event

Yale Russian Chorus with Darbazi

About the Yale Russian Chorus:
The Yale Russian Chorus is a tenor-bass a cappella choral ensemble specializing in sacred and secular Slavic choral music. The chorus members are Yale University students from a variety of academic disciplines. Founded in 1953 by Denis Mickiewicz, a Yale student at the time, the YRC is recognized as one of the world’s premier performance ensembles of Slavic music today.

Their repertoire spans the 12th to the 21st centuries, with origins across Eastern Europe from Slovakia to Georgia. They sing a variety of sacred and secular settings, including ancient chant, folk songs, and works by Tchaikovsky, Bortnyansky, Kedrov, and Chesnokov. Recordings of the Yale Russian Chorus have been placed on the New York Times critics’ choice list, and described as a ‘must-have recording’ by National Public Radio’s Performance Today.

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Darbazi + Turkwaz in Concert at Ouroboros (Concert Saturday, September 29 2018)

St. Anne's Church Toronto

Darbazi is thrilled to be a part of the very special art event Ouroboros, and to be performing for the first time with our dear friends Turkwaz in St. Anne’s exquisite and historic church sanctuary.

Saturday, September 29, 7:30 to 9:30 pm
St. Anne’s Anglican Church
270 Gladstone Ave, Toronto
Between Dovercourt and Dufferin, just north of Dundas Street West

Admission is PWYC.

About the Exhibit:
From September 22 – October 14, experience Ouroboros, an immersive group exhibit, featuring the work of Ellen Bleiwas, Emily DiCarlo, Gunilla Josephson, Adrienne Trent and Marian Wihak in the unconventional art exhibition space of St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto. Presenting a range of installations, site-specific sculptures, and multi-channel video projects, Ouroboros focuses on themes of cyclical time, the weight of history, and the connecting power of memory. Visitors are invited to explore the historic site and its sculptural responses – a collision of contemporary art and Byzantine Revival architecture.

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Kith&Kin Holiday Wassail (Concert Sunday, December 17 2017)

Toronto Island trio Kith & Kin return to the Music Gallery for their 10th annual Holiday Wassail, featuring medieval carols, rousing sing-alongs, and seasonal music from Appalachia, the British Isles, and the shape-note tradition. Known for their haunting 3-part harmonies, Ivy Mairi, her sister Martha, and their mother Kathleen perform songs from their CDs Yet Will I Be Merry and Cool of the Day.

This 10th anniversary show also features seasonal favourites by the Kith & Kin Choir and special guests Darbazi, plus the raucous humour and visual pageantry of Shadowland Theatre’s annual Mummers’ Play.

Sunday, December 17 at 8:00 PM (Doors at 7:00 PM)
The Music Gallery
918 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON

Ticket Price: $12-$18 | Purchase Tickets

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Weaving the World: Schola Magdalena and Darbazi (Concert Saturday, March 4 2017)

Weaving the World

Sacred liturgical chant of the middle ages entwines with earthy folk songs from Georgia.  Schola Magdalena welcomes Darbazi to the ethereal acoustic of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene.

Saturday, March 4 2017 at 8:00 PM
Church of Saint Mary Magdalene
477 Manning Avenue, Toronto, ON Canada

Ticket Price: PWYC

Details | Facebook Event

Schola Magdalena sings Hildegard, Dunstable, Dufay, Gregorian chant and new music for women’s voices. Darbazi sings folk music and traditional sacred chant from Georgia.