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Doc Film Shines The Light on Healey’s Hideaway

Doc Film Shines The Light on Healey’s Hideaway
Canadian Blues legend Jeff Healey was a remarkable talent best known for his phenomenal abilities on the guitar. Despite being blind, Healey never let physical challenges stand in his way. As a teenager, he began performing with his high school band in Etobicoke, Ontario, before playing around the city at any Blues club that would let him play. Before long,... Read More

BLUESFEST…THE VISION, THE EVOLUTION & THE FUTURE

BLUESFEST…THE VISION, THE EVOLUTION & THE FUTURE
Ottawa’s RBC Bluesfest, one of the top ten outdoor music festivals in North America, is now in its 21st year, but has grown to become something much more than a phenomenally successful music festival. It’s an enterprise that has not only brought some of the biggest world talents to our city, but has also focused a great deal on our... Read More

A Wild Night At The Socan Awards

A Wild Night At The Socan Awards
  Dallas Green, Randy Bachman and Mars Bonfire Yes music industry boys and girls, Mars Bonfire actually does exist! The reclusive writer of Steppenwolf’s seminal rock classic, “Born To Be Wild” was honoured Monday night at the 26th annual SOCAN Awards gala staged at the Westin Harbour Castle. More than 500 music industry movers and shakers paid tribute to Bonfire... Read More

Born to Be Music Creators

Born to Be Music Creators
Randy Bachman, MAGIC!, Dallas Green to be Honoured at 2015 SOCAN Awards Toronto, June 15, 2015 – A Winnipeg-born songwriter who became a worldwide legend of rock; a music creator from Oshawa, Ontario, who was born to make one of the most famous songs in history; a post-punk native of St. Catharines, Ontario, who has fronted two of the biggest acts of... Read More

BACHMAN Heavy Blues

BACHMAN  Heavy Blues
Think of Randy Bachman and you associate this iconic Winnipegger with beefy power rock bands like Bachman-Turner Overdrive or the more melodic Guess Who – but two girls? That’s what you get with Bachman’s first studio record in five years as he teams up with drummer Dale Anne Brendon and bassist Anna Ruddick to lay down 11 blues-flavoured tracks. Inspired... Read More

RANDY BACHMAN TO LAUNCH HEAVY BLUES

RANDY BACHMAN TO LAUNCH HEAVY BLUES
(December 17 – Toronto, ON) The man known as the “architect of Canadian rock n’ roll” is forging ahead into 2015 with a brand new project billed simply as BACHMAN. Joined by a virtuoso rhythm section with Anna Ruddick on bass and Dale Anne Brendan on drums, the trio’s debut effort entitled Heavy Blues will be available worldwide on April... Read More

Big Names, Big Events Mark This Year’s Festival Schedules

Big Names, Big Events Mark This Year’s Festival Schedules
The upcoming July 1st weekend usually kicks off Canada’s outdoor concert season which will again see the staging of literally dozens of major festivals from coast to coast ranging in style from classic rock to electro -dance, country, jazz, blues and even a Ska festival in Victoria B.C. It’s a chance for music fans to see some of the biggest... Read More