Live Music Is A Once In A Lifetime Experience
we talked to a lot of people about music. It’s our great joy in life, and hopefully yours as well! We mean a lot of people: it’s Musicians or it’s producers or it’s venue operators, artistic directors, roadies, caterers, even though small animals that we reference on our main page. (hey: I’m blind, I didn’t know!!) …
Kathryn & Buddy are talking with other human/dog partners when we return to the Jack Singer Concert Hall lobby, leaving the practicing Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra to hammer out the details of the various Star Wars themes they have been enchanting us with. It’s hard to leave, but I GUESS we’ve got to work as well as listen . . …
Zonnis:they’re NOT touring through Calgary in the next month; they’re NOT opening for Cindi Lauper at her ‘Final Performance’ in T.O.; and they’re NOT embarking on a Eurasian tour to hit the world’s metropolises before the next hurricane season . . . yet. So why are they in the magazine that claims “Live music is a once in a lifetime experience”? …
Skyler plays guitar, and Blair plays drums, and apparently they “both shriek like idiots!” Their words, not mine.
That simple list does NOT do them credit, though, because this 2-piece sounds like a 4-piece: with complex melody lines and sequencers and samples clearly being triggered and used during a set that includes songs with . . . movements …
My name is Nadia Duman: I’m one of Cuerpos, and I play guitar bass and vocals for the band.
My Name’s Francis Dawson, and I do a lot of the production work, drum sequencing, synths and effects. …
“But compared to a world where MuchMusic was the main way people saw things, I think there’s still somewhat more democracy now.”
So sayeth Andrew DeVilliers, the songwriter, producer, lead singer and guitar player of Mad Ones, a trash pop band centred in Toronto. …
Jori Kinjo and I, eatin’ Timbits and coffee. It doesn’t Sound that poetic, but so much really good music is about the joys present in day-to-day life . . . I mean, Timbits! And Ska! And a bass guitar played from within the rhythm. …
Tanya Tagaq performed in Calgary at the Palace Theatre last week, but this article is NOT about her amazing event.
And for that matter, the video below has nothing in particular to do with her show: she didn’t mention Norman McLaren, nor the National Film Board; in fact she didn’t mention …
Apparently Kevin Phillips, lead singer and songwriter for the newly minted rock quartet Redhead Mack Band, plays a custom electric guitar made by Northwood, a Canadian company that “normally makes acoustic but occasionally electric guitars.” …
