Arts May 02

Gordon Lightfoot Portrait
Gordon Lightfoot, legendary folk singer-songwriter, dies at 84

One of the most renowned voices to emerge from Toronto’s Yorkville folk club scene in the 1960s, Lightfoot recorded 20 studio albums and penned hundreds of songs, including “Carefree Highway," “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."…

Arts Nov 22

FILE PHOTO: Cuban musician Pablo Milanes performs at a concert in Havana
Pablo Milanés, Cuban singer-songwriter, dies at 79

Pablo Milanés, the Latin Grammy-winning balladeer who helped found Cuba’s “nueva trova” movement and toured the world as a cultural ambassador for Fidel Castro’s revolution, has died in Spain, where he had been under treatment for blood cancer. He was…