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        It was a case of guys’ rule at the 2017 Canadian Country Music Awards staged Sunday at Saskatoon’s SaskTel Centre with Dean Brody and Brett Kissel claiming three awards each and Dallas Smith snagging two during the awards ceremony telecast nationally on CBC. Smithers B.C native Brody claimed the Apple Music Fan’s award, Songwriter Of The... Read More

  By Keith Sharp   When Fort McMurray was devastated by a wild fire in May 2016, Maritime rock legend, Matt Minglewood rallied his fellow East Coast musicians to stage a special fund-raising concert in Sydney Nova Scotia to raise badly-needed funds for that Northern Alberta community. Between Thursday October 12th to Saturday October 14th, the residents of Fort McMurray... Read More

  By Keith Sharp Two distinctively different artists, one a New York `beatnik’ perfectionist performer/producer, the other a raunchy Southern USA rocker. Both played guitar and both died September 3th 2017. Yes, there were differences between Steely Dan’s Walter (Carl) Becker (who passed away from an unknown illness at the age of 66) and Molly Hatchet lead guitarist Dave Hlubek... Read More

  By Keith Sharp Skip Prokop, drummer/vocalist with seminal rock/jazz ensemble Lighthouse, passed away Wednesday at the age of 73. Formerly with The Paupers, the Hamilton native , (born Ronald Harry Prokop) went on to be the band leader with Lighthouse in 1968 along with keyboardist Paul Hoffert and guitarist Ralph Cole. Known as Canada’s answer to Chicago, Lighthouse launched... Read More