The Interviews

Interviews

As the years click by, one of the things that becomes obvious when you're producing a blog is that old posts tend to get buried, often quickly. Since interviews are one of the most popular posts in general, and the ones that people will often look at over time, and since they represent my original work (as opposed to media releases) I decided to gather them together here, organized by the discipline of the interviewee.

• You'll find other recent interview pieces on Myentertainmentworld.ca
• Interviews and other arts pieces at Okayafrica
• You can also check out my archive at the now defunct Sway Magazine, where I freelanced from 2011 till they folded in 2012, including concert & gallery show reviews and interview pieces.

Music

Thomas Mapfumo 2011 copyright Anya Wassenberg
Thomas Mapfumo, 2011 (copyright Anya Wassenberg)


• Luke Welch
• Patric Caird
• Michelle MacQueen writes about The Tragically Hip
• The Heavyweights Brass Band
• Madagascar Slim
• Thomas Mapfumo (my pic of him to the right)
• Hugh Masekela
• Oliver Mtukudzi
• Nadine McNulty of Batuki Music
• Tunde Olaniran
• Uncle Jonny
• Dave West & Waleed Abdulhamid

Dance

Soulful Messiah by Christopher Cushman
Soulful Messiah by Christopher Cushman

• Ilter Ibrahimoff
 • Sasha Ivanochko
 • Luke Garwood
 • Laurence Lemieux
 • Christopher Cushman (one of his images of Ballet Creole's Soulful Messiah to the right)
 • Jasmyn Fyffe
 • Rex Harrington (not my interview, but I was there...)
 • Charmaine Headley
 • Jeff Melanson of the National Ballet School
• Tiffany Mosher of the National Ballet
• Kevin A. Ormsby

Stage

Fela on Broadway


• Director Mitchell Cushman 
• Blyth Festival Artistic Director Gil Garratt
• Hettie Vyrine Barnhill (pictured in Tony Award winning Fela! on Broadway, 2011 - above)
• John Hastings
• Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu
• Heather Ruffo
• Kwame Stephens
• Jenny Young

Film

Katie Boland
Katie Boland


• Da'Vine Joy Randolph
• Andrew Renzi
• #tiff18 review/interview: Freedom Fields, Directed by Naziha Arebi
• Ian Harnarine
• Allen Altman
• Tetchana Bellange
• Wang Bing
• Katie Boland (pictured here because her pictures get soooo many pageviews!)
• Emily Hampshire
• Sandy Jobin-Bevans
• Athena Karkanis
• Paul Laverty (and I won't even pretend that I don't like to blow my own horn... the New York Times online review of Even the Rain/Tambien la Lluvia has a link to this interview)
• Liz Marshall (about her documentary Water on the Table, a portrait of Maude Barlow)
• Dorothée Van Den Berghe & Matthias Schoenaerts
• Andrucha Waddington

Fashion & Visual Arts

Design by Baby Steinberg
Design by Baby Steinberg

• Laurinda Lee-Retter (Kind Karma Jewellery)