The Canadian Tenors’ holiday album “The Perfect Gift” goes gold December 8

Stunning. Uplifting. This awesome foursome makes you proud to be Canadian

The Canadian Tenors – Clifton Murray, Victor Micallef, Remigio Pereira and Fraser Walters – are world class performers, possessors of incredibly powerful tenor voices and with diverse vocal styles.

Tempo Toronto met them and heard them perform (minus Remigio Pereira, who was unwell that evening) at “It’s Always Something” for Gilda’s Club at the Princess of Wales Theatre recently. Among the amazing performances that evening, as the final act in this superb benefit show, these talented young men stood out as refreshing and inspiring. On top of all that talent, they are great people, full of positive energy and enthusiasm.

They’ve done well; deservedly so. We found out that the foursome has received rave reviews and standing ovations around the world from the Tel Aviv Opera house where they shared the stage with Andrea Bocelli to Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Coliseum with David Foster and Friends to Toronto’s Air Canada Centre where they headlined at ONE NIGHT LIVE with STING and Sheryl Crow.

From performing opening songs for President Bill Clinton, Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Shimon Peres to making musical memories at events with icons such as John Legend, Wyclef Jean and Canada’s musical maestro David Foster the Canadian Tenors’ reputation is that of talented singers and genuine artists with big hearts. They have raised their voices to support many children’s charities, which is how we came to meet them and be as impressed as everyone else whose lives they touch.

Their debut album went gold in Canada, and was released around the world by Universal Music and its affiliates.

It’s not too late to see them live, and quite honestly we’d urge you not to miss the opportunity. Their local dates in the GTA are

December 18 and 19, Markham
December 20, St. Catharine’s
December 21 and 22 Brampton
December 22, Markham
December 23, Brampton

Catch them now if you can, because, in the New Year, they have mostly American appearances along with their support for the Vancouver, Olympics. Tickets are available through their website as well as Tickemaster. “The Perfect Gift” is also available through the website (only $20) as well as in stores.

www.canadiantenors.com
See and hear a sample of their work too,
www.canadiantenors.com/tenors_tv_2.html
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Russell Peters hosts variety show for Gilda’s Club

Line-up of supreme Canadian talent, The Canadian Tenors close off the evening, all for Gilda’s Club

What an amazing evening! All-star, all Canadian, cast of entertainers kept the audience rapt or laughing out loud for two hours straight. This line-up of extraordinary Canadian talent donated their time for a great cause – Gilda’s Club. If you didn’t get tickets for this year, you’ll want to make sure you do in 2010.

Tickets for “Toronto’s Number One Night of Entertainment”, It’s Always Something, an evening of comedy, music and dance in support of Gilda’s Club, Greater Toronto, went on sale on Monday, September 28. This eighth annual Variety Show took place on Monday, November 23 at the Princess of Wales Theatre. It’s a benefit in support of Gilda’s Club, named after Gilda Radner of Saturday Night Live fame. Gilda lost her battle with ovarian cancer in 1989, but not before imagining a place where people touched by cancer could go for social and emotional support.

Back for his third consecutive year of hosting, was Canada’s number one comedian and Gemini Award winner Russell Peters, with another all-star cast of comedians, musicians and dancers all donating their talents to Gilda’s Club, Greater Toronto, a cancer care centre providing free emotional and support programs for kids, teens and adults living with cancer, and their families.

Joining Russell was legendary Second City and SCTV star Dave Thomas, former Barenaked Ladies lead singer Steven Page, three of the acclaimed vocal group of four – The Canadian Tenors (all four pictured above, but as one was unwell only three pictured at the left with Tempo Toronto Publisher Tina Rogers), comedian and musical theatre star Sean Cullen, Canadian R&B artist and 2009 Juno winner Divine Brown, stars of the Emmy-nominated “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” Colin Mochrie (pictured right) and Brad Sherwood, and comedian Irwin Barker. Eugene Levy also stepped on stage to address the crowd of 2000.

As one of the must-attend and always sold out events of the entertainment year, all proceeds  go to support Gilda’s Club, Greater Toronto. Over its first seven years, the show raised more than $2.5 million to fulfill Gilda’s wish that “no one should face cancer alone.”

If you missed it you may want to plan to go next year, November 2010. There’s more information  at www.itsalwayssomething.ca, and about Gilda’s Club, Greater Toronto at www.gildasclubtoronto.org. Media relations for the event were in the capable hands of dkpr Public Relations Inc. www.dkpr.ca