Author: Keith Sharp

Carroll Baker isn’t big on receiving awards. Once touted as `The Queen Of Canadian Country Music’ for her phenomenal success which saw her rack up 31 hit singles between 1970 and 1981 and 14 best selling albums. But as her career reaches legacy status, she has exhibited a reluctance to accept a number of ‘Hall Of Fame’ or sales recognition... Read More

Heather MacMurphy Harbourfest 2020 Heather MacMurphy looks across the near-deserted Kenora harbour front at the picturesque Lake Of The Woods and envisions a time when 13,000 plus spectators will congregate in this area to celebrate the city’s Harbourfest 2020. For the past 29 years, this annual three-day event, spanning the August long-weekend, has traditionally appeared on the calendar as the... Read More

Luke Combs By Keith Sharp Country Thunder marketing and public relations chief, Gerry Krochak certainly has his hands full as his organization prepares for the first of seven scheduled festivals across the United States and Canada. At the time of this interview, Krochuk was confident that their Florida Country Thunder event scheduled for March 27-29 at Kissimmee was a go... Read More

By the time you read this missive about Ed Sousa’s 5th annual McBowl Concert Series to be staged Friday, May 22nd and Saturday, May 23rd at Mississauga Ontario’s Classic Bowl, the majority of tickets for this Ronald McDonald House charities event are likely to have been snapped up. Like a pack of rabid wolves tearing at the carcass of some... Read More

China Crisis Rational Youth Slave To The Square Wave Revival Theatre Toronto Saturday, January 25th 2020 By Keith Sharp Thirty-seven years after they last performed together at Kingswood north of Toronto (1985 to be exact), Liverpool’s China Crisis hooked up again with Montreal’s Rational Youth, this time at Toronto’s Revival Theatre with local band Slave To The Square Wave opening... Read More

That adage “everything old is new again” certainly applies to the China Crisis duo of Eddie Lundon and Gary Daly who find themselves in greater demand globally than even in their early 1980’s when they were part of a new romantics wave of bands which included the likes of A Flock Of Seagulls, Orchestral Manoeuvers In The Dark, Teardrop Explodes... Read More

When it comes to matching co-presenting concert acts, some bands just have the right synergy. Case in point are Montreal’s The Box with Images In Vogue whose members are split between Toronto and Vancouver. Friday, November 22nd, The Box and Images In Vogue performing at Toronto’s Revival Club, was the fourth time the two new wave retro electro-rockers have joined... Read More

The East Pointers is not the atypical band which normally performs at Toronto’s Lee’s Palace. On the surface, this trio of Maritime folk-rock musicians would seem alien to an environment that normally spotlights trendy, alternative artists and groups. But there was fiddle player/vocalist Tim Chaisson, banjo-playing brother Koady Chaisson and guitarist cousin Jake Charron on Thursday, November 14th ripping through... Read More

By Keith Sharp When April Wine lead vocalist and songwriter, Myles Goodwyn stepped on stage at Toronto’s Hughs Room Monday, November 4th to showcase his newly released Myles Goodwyn & Friends Of The Blues Vol 2 album, his primary concern was how he would be embraced by the city’s blues community. He had nothing to fear! Supported by a first-rate... Read More