I was going to start this week’s Music Monday post with “No band is more closely associated with Winnipeg than The Weakerthans”, but then I remembered a little group called The Guess Who. Let’s just agree that The Weakerthans are the current standard bearers for the ‘Peg, and they are beloved by all who call … More Music Monday – The Weakerthans
Today’s Music Monday post is very personal as it takes me back to the very genesis of my interest in percussion. I was just a wee lad, watching the 1992 Miss U.S.A. pageant on television with my ma and pa, when Mr. Regis Philbin introduced an artist who would change my life forever. Until that … More Music Monday – The Marimbist
This was going to be a big week for the National Arts Centre Orchestra. For the conclusion of its 40th anniversary season, the orchestra had programmed Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, the famous “Symphony of a Thousand”. Canadian superstar conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin was engaged to lead the combined orchestras of the NAC and l’Orchestre Metropolitain, eight … More Yannick and Mahler
Festival season is almost upon us, and I’m starting to get really excited about some of the artists I’ll get to hear this summer. At the top of my list is The Swell Season, the duo of Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, who shot to fame in the film Once. Incredibly, there are some among … More Music Monday – The Swell Season
Playing ZZ Top tunes in a cover band once might be fun. Playing ZZ Top tunes in a cover band 200 times a year would be excruciating. Especially if you’re the drummer. Unless… Unless you cast aside the conventions of what a drummer should look like and adopt your own unique style. Steve Moore, from … More Music Monday – Right Drummer, Wrong Gig
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