Bravo Niagara Festival of the Arts

06/14/2026

Happy birthday to the one and only Marcus Miller! 🎉

📸Throwback to an unforgettable concert last year celebrating 10 years of Bravo Niagara’s Voices of Freedom. 3.15.25 Photo by BLVD Studio - portrait photography

06/08/2026

Our upcoming concert on July 6 featuring GRAMMY-nominated Voces8 is now SOLD OUT! 🎉 VOCES8 has been hailed as “the Rolls-Royce of British a ca****la ensembles” (The Arts Desk). We can hardly wait to welcome them to Niagara for this special concert.

✨ Their programme Give Me Your Stars explores the profound and diverse beauty of music inspired by the heavens, human connection, and the places we call home. At its heart is Lucy Walker’s eponymous new work, written for VOCES8, which captures the delicate balance between celestial wonder and the deep, personal connections that make us human.

The programme spans centuries of choral music, from the luminous polyphony of Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Regina Caeli to timeless jazz standards. Along the way, we encounter the reflective sentiments of Eric Whitacre’s All Seems Beautiful to Me and Ola Gjeilo’s Ubi Caritas, folk traditions in Danny Boy and Michael McGlynn’s Dúlamán, and evocative tales of cities and starlight in April in Paris and New York, New York.

06/04/2026

What a special surprise! ✨ Our Kimiko’s Pearl harpist of the and Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin with -winning Kimiko’s Pearl vinyl!

06/03/2026

Congratulations to Loie Fallis, Vice-President of Artistic Planning , on a remarkable 46-year career with the TSO!

What a special evening at Massey Hall celebrating this incredible milestone. Loie is a true inspiration and a pillar of the Canadian arts community.

We feel so fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with Loie on the co-commission of ’s Symphonic Suite from Kimiko’s Pearl, which the TSO premiered at Roy Thomson Hall last year.

Thank you, Loie, for believing in and for the dedication and care you brought to sharing this important Canadian story on the TSO stage.

06/01/2026

Exciting announcement!

It is with immense joy and excitement that we finally share with you the project that we have been working on for the better part of two years. It has been of paramount importance to us that we put something together not just as a worthy tribute to the occasion of OP's centennial and his overall legacy, but to the love and dedication of you, his fans, who champion and celebrate his music all over the world.

‘Oscar Peterson: World Tour’ is a 6-LP set with previously unreleased live performances over the course of three decades in OP’s career, in a beautifully curated box set. Artists featured on this collection include Ray Brown, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Joe Pass, Louis Hayes, Mary Lou Williams and more! Accompanying this limited edition set is a 48-page hardcover book with never-before-seen archival material, including Oscar's own photography, poetry, and personal remembrances from family, friends and fellow musicians. The release is also available as a 4-CD set, paired with a 20-page booklet featuring notes from Kelly Peterson and Céline Peterson plus tributes from peers.

Visit the link in the comments to learn more about pre-ordering with preferred pricing (one week only) and the gifts with the purchase for the first 100 orders!

'Oscar Peterson: World Tour' releases August 28, 2026 on Mack Avenue Records x Two Lions Records

05/30/2026

Tune in! JUNO-winning Kimiko's Pearl cellist Rachel Mercer hosts This is My Music today with Tom Allen from 10am-12pm EST. Live on CBC Music CBC Radio 2 and available on the CBC/Radio-Canada website link below.
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-382-this-is-my-music

05/30/2026

Tune in! JUNO-winning Kimiko's Pearl cellist Rachel Mercer hosts This is My Music today with Tom Allen from 10am-12pm EST. Live on CBC Music CBC Radio 2 and available on the CBC/Radio-Canada website link below.

Each week, This Is My Music is hosted by one of Canada's foremost international classical artists. The host selects a program of mainly classical music and presents it in a lively, engaging manner, enriched with personal anecdotes and insights.

05/22/2026

🎟️🔥 Do you have your tickets yet for at Bravo Niagara? Very limited tickets remain for this special concert on July 6! Be sure to reserve yours today before they sell out.

“The singing of VOCES8 is impeccable in its quality of tone and balance. They bring a new dimension to the word ‘ensemble’ with meticulous timing and tuning.”
- Gramophone Magazine

Grammy-nominated British vocal ensemble VOCES8 is the world’s top-streaming classical vocal group, celebrated for inspiring people through music and sharing the joy of singing. VOCES8 has performed at many notable venues from Wigmore Hall to Sydney Opera House. This season they perform over 100 concerts globally. Their programme Give Me Your Stars explores the profound and diverse beauty of music inspired by the heavens, human connection, and the places we call home.

This concert is generously supported by Carol & David Appel.