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Sagen Pearse – Sagen Built A Nuclear Home Brian Tremblay
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Buying Into Canada – The Superior View Lisa Tucker
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Jack Valiquette – The Soo Greyhounds 1st Star (The Smart As Trees Podcast) Adrian V
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Skye Smith & Aleisha Parr – Becoming Calla Lisa Tucker
In 1968, Gary Kendall moved from Fort William to Toronto, the city he now calls home. By 1971, as a member of The James Hartley Band, he was playing the legendary Grossman’s Tavern on Spadina Ave and other blues bars in Toronto. The Downchild Blues Band was at the top of the Toronto blues scene and […]
Running time: 53 minutes. The Jazz Guitar Summit Story In the spring of 2011, I hosted my 2nd annual International Jazz Guitar Festival at WIU, where I was a professor. The festival was a huge success, but unfortunately for the festival, and fortunately for me, I moved to Brazil shortly […]
Mark D. Dunn (vol. 1) goes to ‘The River Lately’ to ponder love and the universe questions, an album out in early 2018 with the monster band, Innocent Weapon Ensemble. M.D. Dunn has released nine albums since 1993. Every record attempts a change in musical ideas, be it musically or […]
Visit: waxmannequin.bandcamp.com Wax Mannequin is the stage name of Chris Adeney, a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter. His style has been described as “a hybrid of Bruce Cockburn and Frank Zappa”, “Tom Waits and Type O Negative jamming on the early Beatles catalogue”, and “Rheostatics via Savatage”. Carl Wilson of The […]
Del Boy Druid getting more abstract by the moment. He performs where he’s never performed before. Del Boy Druid has sold out! (kind of). After years of quiet desperation pursuing the life of a troubadour, the wordsmith and musical conjurer did what he thought he could never do; take a […]
In this episode, Phil Mantello shares his unique trip taken to get his dream realized, and how the songs found a home. In 1999, Phil Mantello created The Algoma Singer/Songwriters project, an idea that allowed those musicians that were not regulars in the local bar circuit to play their music […]
Kyle McKey riffs on a career that has spanned over 20 years already. From his very early start in The Family Band, with his father Fred and brother Dean, to his solo work fresh out of Korah Collegiate’s outstanding music program, Kyle laid a solid foundation. Veteran local players saw […]
Ansley Simpson, an Anishinaabe singer-songwriter, shares the power behind her debut CD ‘Breakwall,’ a roots meets electronica collaboration with a magic sound. Ansley Simpson is a Toronto-based Anishinaabe speaker, label rep, and singer-songwriter known for her poetic lyrics, deeply moving vocal-only performances, and dream-like arrangements. Nominated for two 2018 Indigenous […]
Eric Brombacher, front man for Eric & The Soo, is an international musician, based in Germany now after years in Toronto, with two full-length albums out. A conversation from December 2019. Despite playing guitar since his late teens, Brombacher didn’t seriously take to the stage until ten years later, joining […]
