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The National Music Centre (NMC; French: Centre national de musique) is a non-profit museum, performance venue, and recording studio located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The centre's permanent building, branded Studio Bell, [1] is located at 850 4th Street S.E. in Downtown East Village.
The new state-of-the-art cultural center is at once a performance hall, recording facility, broadcast studio, live music venue and museum—the first facility of its kind in North America and the first to be dedicated to music in Canada in all of its forms.
Feb 16, 2017 · Designed by Allied Works Architecture (AWA), Studio Bell, home the National Music Centre (NMC) is the first facility of its kind in North America.
- What Is Studio Bell Calgary?
- Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Bass Exhibit
- Studio Bell – Start at The Top
- Studio Bell’s Most Treasured Items
- Making Music at Studio Bell Calgary
- The Power of Music
- The Mosaic of Music in Canada
- The Perfect T-Shirt
- The King Eddy and The National Music Centre
- Studio Bell Calgary – Backstage Pass
Calgary’s Studio Bell is the first national museum dedicated to celebrating the vast array of music in Canada. Even the 160,000-square-foot building looks like a musical instrument. Designed by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture, the building is built to resemble the style of a musical instrument using nine curved interlocking towers. It’s ...
We recommend you start at top floor of Studio Bell Calgary and work your way down. The first thing we noticed when we stepped off the elevator was Geddy Lee’s bass guitar collection. The exhibit runs until January 2, 2020 and it’s fascinating. Geddy Lee is best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush. T...
Okay, I’m just going to be blunt – KD Lang has worn some terrible outfits over the years. She even had a dress with plastic Dollar Store livestock sewn onto the yoke. I suppose that’s what she had to do to be successful when she first started out. Today, she wears whatever she likes – often a masculine suit. You’ve come a long way, baby! And we’ve ...
The instrument collection at Calgary’s Studio Bell is impressive. There’s a rare 16th century Trasuntino Harpsichord and Elton John’s original songwriting piano. I enjoyed trying my hand a playing a theremin, an unusual musical instrument that you don’t actually physically touch to play. You move your hands between two antennas to elicit sound. Oth...
Studio Bell is very hands on and interactive. There are stationary displays of rare musical instruments, but there are also many instruments you can play. The Soundbox on the fourth floor is especially fun for kids. They can build and play with musical instruments. (And adults can too.) We had fun playing drum sets, guitars, synthesizers, pianos an...
Music is powerful. Canada’s National Music Centre delves into the science behind music and how it stimulates human beings. It also looks at how music brings people together and how music has influenced Canada and the world. At the museum, you can listen to different styles of music and see how it makes you feel.
You can learn a great deal about the history of music in Canada at Studio Bell in Calgary. We learned things about industry pioneers and trailblazers who shaped the music scene in North America. We also learned more about Canadian icons. Canada is proudly home to Celine Dion, Diana Krall, Gordon Lightfoot, Bryan Adams, KD Lang, Justin Bieber, Shani...
This music pareidolia T-shirt would be a good fashion choice for a day at Studio Bell in Calgary. If you’re not sure what pareidolia is and you want to see if you have it, Take the Iceberg Pareidolia Test.
The King Edward Hotel was Calgary’s second oldest hotel and the longest operating bar and hotel when it closed in 2004. In 2008, the National Music Centre (Studio Bell) acquired the Eddy and restored it in collaboration with Calgary Municipal Land Corporation. On July 2018, the King Eddy reopened as a restaurant, bar and music venue. Pop in and che...
The National Music Centre also has state-of-the-art professional recording facilities. On Sunday afternoons, you can book a Backstage Pass Tourof the working spaces in the facility. This unique behind-the-scenes tour lets you check out three world-class recording facilities that house historic consoles—including the Olympic Studios console, Trident...
From Me to You: The Beatles in Canada 1964-1966. Visitor Info. National Music Centre's new temporary exhibition From Me to You: The Beatles in Canada 1964-1966 offers a nostalgic tribute to the band's transformative years upon arriving in Canada for the first time.
Jul 1, 2008 · The centre was completed in 1969 at a cost of $46 million, and opened 2 June, in the Opera, with the National Ballet of Canada's performances of two commissioned ballets - The Queen by Grant Strate to music of Louis Applebaum, and Kraanerg by Roland Petit to music of Iannis Xenakis.
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The National Music Centre (NMC) has a mission to amplify the love, sharing, and understanding of music and is preserving and celebrating Canada’s music story inside its home at Studio Bell in Calgary’s East Village.
