Two Twenty Two
Catch Two Twenty Two at O’Reilly’s on April 3rd.
Warren - Lead & Backup Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Dobro, Harmonica, Bongos, and basically whatever noisemakers you put in front of him. Amanda - Lead & Backup Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Piano.
Join Michael Pickett and Doc MacLean on their Canadian Tour and enjoy delta blues at its finest.
Massey Hall
(Toronto, ON Canada)
Pickett’s performance at Massey Hall this night was flawless and engrossing throughout his entire time on stage. He played acoustic guitar throughout, as well as blues harp (on a rack) with rousing, forceful vocals that radiated the confidence and supreme talent that only a decades-long blues performer can muster up and deliver to an audience, with ease, effortlessly like a blues angel flapping its wings.
Son of a civil rights lawyer and a fiddle player, Doc MacLean was exposed to country blues and folklore at an early age. By his early teens he was performing in coffeehouses and festivals, and was appearing on radio and television variety shows. Answering the call of the road, Doc traded a guitar for a 1948 Dodge and set out to explore America.
In a relentless cross country ramble, Doc MacLean sought out every living old time blues player he could find. Significantly, he met and became friends with artists such as Son House, Tampa Red, Sippi Wallace, Yank Rachel, Robert Pete Williams, Rev Robert Wilkins and Bukka White. Meanwhile he toured and performed with artists as diverse as Peg Leg Sam the Medicine Show Man, Blind John Davis, Sunnyland Slim, Little Brother Montgomery, Rev Pearly Brown, Colin Linden, Mose Scarlett, the Carter Family, and Sam Chatmon. With Linden, he became a popular opener for Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Muddy Waters, and John Hammond.
Show starts at 9pm - $5 cover
Well about 8-9 years ago Diamond Dave found out he can accually make some money playing music, and has been going hard ever since. Managing approx. 200 gigs a year. Playing mostly upright bass these days Dave keeps busy with 3 different bands, and still occationally doing the rent-a-bass player bit. Washboard Hank:Dave has been playing for Hank about three years now doing lots of cool shows, festivals, having lots of fun, drinkin’ lots o beer. Electric City Ramblers:the work horse band, playing the Pub circit, argicultural events, almost anything. A very versitle band. Members are Dave MaQurrie, lead vocal, guitar and a songbag bigger than Santa’s. Fiddlin Jay Edmonds, mandolin, Fiddle. The County Boys.Daves all original Band. Playing with Tin Can Chris Culgin and Banjo Benj Rowland. 3 songerwriters, 3 singers. Fairly new band but doing really well. Exciting live.
Show starts at 9pm - $3 cover
With the May 2007 release of Time bomb, a collaboration CD with fellow Canadian Roxanne Potvin and American blues guitar heroine Deborah Coleman, powerhouse singer/songwriter/guitarist, Sue Foley has once again solidified her place as one of the leading lights of the contemporary blues scene.
Time bomb’s release comes only a year after Foley’s critically acclaimed 10th studio album, New Used Car, the most accomplished and accessible album of her career, featuring Sue’s smooth purr-to-growl vocal style wrapped around original songs, punctuated by her biting, shiver-inducing lead guitar work. She wrote or co-wrote 11 of the 12 tunes on the disc. “I feel this is the best songwriting I’ve done in my life – the songs just developed so naturally and seemed to write themselves,” says Foley, “it was a remarkable process and it is the strongest work and most satisfying album yet.”
With the May 2007 release of Time bomb, a collaboration CD with fellow Canadian Roxanne Potvin and American blues guitar heroine Deborah Coleman, powerhouse singer/songwriter/guitarist, Sue Foley has once again solidified her place as one of the leading lights of the contemporary blues scene.
Time bomb’s release comes only a year after Foley’s critically acclaimed 10th studio album, New Used Car, the most accomplished and accessible album of her career, featuring Sue’s smooth purr-to-growl vocal style wrapped around original songs, punctuated by her biting, shiver-inducing lead guitar work. She wrote or co-wrote 11 of the 12 tunes on the disc. “I feel this is the best songwriting I’ve done in my life – the songs just developed so naturally and seemed to write themselves,” says Foley, “it was a remarkable process and it is the strongest work and most satisfying album yet.”
Join Sweetgrass at O’Reilly’s Pub Perth on August 8th.
Hard as nails, tough as steel, but with a warm silver glow stretching from coast to coast. Join Doc MacLean and Michael Pickett, two of Canada’s most uncompromising, most travelled and most storied acoustic blues artists as they bring the real deal to your town. Feel the heat from two vintage National Steel guitars, up close and personal. Experience true blues on the edge and share the inspirations of these veteran artists, together only for this unique tour. The Ammo’s in the Icebox, and there’s a raw steak on a plate, cut like a valentine. So be ready.
The National Steel Blues Tour, September 3 - November 14, 2008, is to include up to 75 shows across Canada. A small number of American dates are also under consideration. Although many of the prime nights have been sold for theatre and festival presentations, the Tour looks forward to performing in a variety of venues both humble and grand.
“This tour is going to feature some very, very deep blues. I’m totally thrilled imagining what Michael and I will do over this many shows. The National Steel Blues Tour is going to be an amazing journey.” - Doc MacLean
Joe Gee’s been around, geographically and musically. Born in N.Y. state, lived in Seattle, Baltimore, Charlotte, and, for now and forever, in Austin Texas. The son of musicians, he started playing piano at eight and, when The Beatles came on the scene, guitar at ten.
Early on he was influenced by the AM radio playlists of his youth; The Beatles and other British Invasion bands, The Beach Boys, R&B and soul acts like The Drifters, James Brown, and Otis Redding. But Joe was especially and increasingly drawn to the sounds of bands like The Byrds, Bob Dylan, The Band, Buffalo Springfield; acts that incorporated traditional country music styles and instrumentation in their work, and writers whose lyrics seemed more real and often more meaningful than those of their pop\rock counterparts.
UpNorth Music
“The thing I really like about Meredith Luce is that she sounds like Meredith Luce and no one else. Her songwriting and guitar work in particular, reflect a maturity way beyond her years. Listening back to the recording session we did with her in July 2007, there is a sort of awkward, stunned silence after the first song because we were so taken aback at how good she sounded. We feel very fortunate to have had her participate in the UpNorth Music project and look forward to her becoming a big deal in the music industry so we can shamelessly drop her name and tell people that we knew Meredith way back in 2007.” — Joel Hurd, Production Manager - North Country Public Radio (January 18, 2008)
“On Thursday, May 8th auditions will be held for the ‘On Stage’ portion of the Stewart Park Festival. The event will take place at O’Reillys pub, 43 Gore Street. Each performer will be asked to play 2 songs , at least one of them must be an original composition. Six acts will be chosen and two spots are reserved for local acts. We are looking forward to a great night of entertainment.
Washboard Hank plays an amazing conglomeration of bells, licence plates, duck calls, etc., and actually gets music out of it. He also plays banjo, kazoo, and dobro, and will probably break a lot of guitar strings too. If the proper plumbing supplies are available and space allows you can expect a solo or two on the “Fallopian Tuba,” made out of 1 1/2″ PVC pipe and a stainless steel sink.
One reviewer called Washboard Hank “a cross between Jerry Lewis (not Jerry Lee) and Stompin’ Tom Connors.” His repertoire includes bluegrass, rockabilly, country, television themes and Oktoberfest. He can go from sensitive to manic to ridiculous in an instant. Don’t blink, you’ll miss something good. Hank has appeared on dozens of TV shows (Elephant Show, W5, Mr. Dressup, etc.) recently performed on C.B.C.’s Madly Off In All Directions, and spent the last four years as a member of Fred Eaglesmith’s band, doing 200 + shows a year all over North America. Working so steadily with Fred was letting Hank’s own career slide, but he’s getting it built up a bit now.
Formed in the spring of 2003 these rowdy Winnipegers are on a mission to show that not all country is Nashville Pop with a hint of twang. Drawing influence from artists such as Johnny Cash, John Prine, Fred Eaglesmith, and Stompin’ Tom, they bring the music back to its original roots with alcohol-soaked songs full of trucks, trains, and a whole lot of heartache.
Formed in the spring of 2003 these rowdy Winnipegers are on a mission to show that not all country is Nashville Pop with a hint of twang. Drawing influence from artists such as Johnny Cash, John Prine, Fred Eaglesmith, and Stompin’ Tom, they bring the music back to its original roots with alcohol-soaked songs full of trucks, trains, and a whole lot of heartache.
Preview: Canadian bluesman Pat Johnson
“Pat Johnson is one of eastern Ontario’s busiest musicians, and he’s marking the release of his second solo CD with a couple of special music events. Joel Hurd has a preview.” - North Country Public Radio (Aug. 15, 2006)
Preview: Canadian bluesman Pat Johnson
“Pat Johnson is one of eastern Ontario’s busiest musicians, and he’s marking the release of his second solo CD with a couple of special music events. Joel Hurd has a preview.” - North Country Public Radio (Aug. 15, 2006)
African percussion, a cello, an acoustic guitar and a bass. Fusing traditional acoustic sounds with pop, folk, soul and funk, the Mike Yates band provides some pretty intricate arrangements. Worth coming out to hear and see!
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