Nikki Yanofsky News

The Yardbird Suite presents local and Canadian live, and streaming online, jazz musicians throughout April.

With her new album 'Black Sheep,' out May 8th, accomplished singer Nikki Yanofsky makes a bold creative shift: for the first time in the young artist's already long and impressive career, Nikki leads by her own creative intuition, bucking expectations and painting a clear personal portrait of who she is today. Recorded at Warner-Chappell studios in NYC and produced and co-written by Zachary Seman and Roger Kleinman (Joey Bada$$, ASAP Rocky), 'Black Sheep' also features the last two songs that decorated songwriter Rod Temperton (“Thriller”) ever penned.

As the 40th edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal approaches, the city gets ready to celebrate! It marks the return of music to the streets, massive festive gatherings and fun in the downtown core, magical musical discoveries and events you simply can't miss! In other words - a memorable Montreal summer!

Poly-instrumental Brooklyn-based songwriter and performer STOLAR is celebrating the one year anniversary of his ambitious project Raw Emotions, which found the performer releasing new music once a month for an entire year beginning October of 2017. Each month was tied to a different emotion, with each song providing candid insight into the effects of that particular feeling. Stolar created the projects to redirect his struggles with bipolar disorder and depression into a creative channel. The successful campaign has resulted in over 20 million streams between all of the songs Stolar released over the past year.

Sultans of String get set to take their genre-bending mix of songs to venues across Canada and US. Known for being culturally inclusive the bandcombines elements of Spanish flamenco, Arabic folk, Cuban rhythms, and French Manouche Gypsy-jazz into their eclectic sound.  See full schedule below for shows for the whole family.

Classic Disney tunes are given the big-band jazz treatment on this new release, featuring artists such as Gregory Porter, Melody Gardot, Stacey Kent, Jamie Cullum and more. Released on Verve today

Classic Disney tunes are given the big-band jazz treatment on this new release, featuring artists such as Gregory Porter, Melody Gardot, Stacey Kent, Jamie Cullum and more.

Canadian singer-songwriter and future pop goddess Nikki Yanofsky has released her Solid Gold EP, produced by Nikki with additional production by Wyclef Jean, today via A440 Entertainment.

Classic Disney tunes are given the big-band jazz treatment on this new release, featuring artists such as Gregory Porter, Melody Gardot, Stacey Kent, Jamie Cullum and more.

Equal parts Ariana Grande x Ella Fitzgerald with songwriting chops and a voice well beyond her 22 years, Canadian singer-songwriter Nikki Yanofski will release her Wyclef-produced Solid Gold EP October 28th via A440 Entertainment.

The Prism Prize has announced the recipient of the Arthur Lipsett Award is Kristof Brandl, who is also a Prism Prize Top Ten nominee this year as the director for Le Fantome by Monogrenade. 

New Year's Eve is a retrospective time when we take a break and glance back at special memories. CBC-TV's Air Farce's New Year's Eve special is no exception with its current affairs jokes, like this one from the recent past: What does Justin Bieber have in common with Times Square in New York on New Year's Eve?

Halloween came a little early this week on DANCING WITH THE STARS. On this seventh week of the reality competition show, ABC claimed viewers could expect a 'thrilling spooktacular night filled with scary and chilling performances.' Usually scary things freak me out, but was entertained. With the Halloween special, it is only fitting that DANCING's scariest judge returned...and in fashion during the show's spooky 'Heads Will Roll' opening number. I thought that was very clever and cute.

"Dancing with the Stars" treats viewers to a thrilling 'spooktacular' night filled with scary and chilling performances on MONDAY, OCTOBER 27 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET).

Blue Note Jazz Club, one of the world's most iconic jazz and blues venues based in Greenwich Village, is proud to announce an impressive schedule of artists for August 2014.

The Midtown Men's performance at the majestic Prudential Hall will be taped as a concert special for public television. The 90-minute show, recorded in high-definition, will be offered to public television stations to broadcast nationwide. The concert special will air in the NY metropolitan area starting in December.

It's Always Something is a once a year special event in Toronto that raises money for Gilda's Club, an incredibly important charity that honours the memory of the late Gilda Radner by providing a place for those suffering from cancer to go to escape, to laugh and to connect with others. Co-produced by Rick Muller and Fred Levy, this year's show featured Corey Hart's return to a Canadian stage, as well as Matt Dusk, Nikki Yanofsky, Colin Mochrie and more. It was hosted by the incredibly funny Ron James, and BWW is thrilled to bring readers photos from the red carpet and the show.