Maestro Fresh Wes

Maestro Fresh Wes and Skinny Puppy Win 2023 Slaight Heritage Prize
PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2023
Maestro Fresh Wes's Symphony in Effect (1989) and Skinny Puppy's Bites (1985) have been selected to receive the 2023 Slaight Family Polaris...
Feist, Fleet Foxes, Shaggy Headline Halifax Jazz Festival's 2023 Edition
PUBLISHED Jun 13, 2023
TD Halifax Jazz Festival returns this summer from July 11 to 16, and complete programming for the long-running event's 38th edition has now...
JUNO Awards to Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop with Kardinal Offishall, Haviah Mighty, Michie Mee
PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2023
This year marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, which traces back to DJ Kool Herc's performance at a party on August 11, 1973. To mark the...
Maestro Fresh Wes Announces Scarborough Town Centre Event
PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2022
As the first hip-hop artist inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, Maestro Fresh Wes hasn't forgotten his roots. That's why t...
Drake and the All Canadian North Stars Pulled Out All the Stops to Honour Toronto's Hip-Hop and R&B History
History, July 28
PUBLISHED Jul 29, 2022
OVO Fest seems like an insidious inside joke between Drake and the City of Toronto to see how many days each year they can convince Toronto...
Drake Unveils All Canadian North Stars Lineup with k-os, Keshia Chanté, Kardinal Offishall, Jully Black, Shawn Desman
PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2022
Drake's OVO is paying homage to Canadian hip-hop and R&B royalty with the unveiling of his All Canadian North Stars event lineup, which inc...
Canadian Artists Weigh In on Their Wildest Celebrity Encounters
PUBLISHED Apr 7, 2020
Nearly everybody's got a weird story about that one time they saw Shaquille O'Neal loitering on a street corner in England or witnessed Joh...
Maestro Fresh Wes and Rich Kidd Celebrate the Raptors with "Jurassic Park" Video
PUBLISHED Jun 7, 2019
Before Drake, Maestro Fresh Wes was the face of Toronto hip-hop, and like any self-respecting Torontonian, he is also loving the Raptors' c...