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Born in north Winnipeg in 1947, Burton Cummings grew up with music in his household, tinkling the keys of a friend’s family’s piano for the first time when he was only a child. By 14 he was fronting his first band, The Deverons. Flavoured with the British pop sounds on the airwaves, the quintet soon …
Although the roster has ranged from anywhere between six and 19 members at any given time, Broken Social Scene was dreamed up by Toronto’s Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning (formerly of hHead) in the late ’90s. Writing some material, they both played the clubs with everyone on the scene at the time, developing their own …
Kurt Winter memorial Not to be confused with a pop group in the late 90’s with the same name, Brother was one of Winnipeg’s most popular underground groups at the end of the ’60’s. The group’s origins began when Kurt Winter, one of the prairies’ most promising guitarists, and drummer Vance Schmidt, formerly of The …
Andy and younger brother Jim Creeggan grew up in Scarborough, Ont, feeding off each other’s energy and creativity with the various instruments in the house. While still teenagers, they rented their first four-track tape recorder, and laid down their first compositions. In 1992, the brothers joined Barenaked Ladies, just before the band was on top …
Born in Ottawa in 1945, Bruce Douglas Cockburn spent a couple of his earliest years on a farm outside Pembroke, Ontario, but moved back to the nation’s capital before he was in school. While growing up, he was inspired by poetic verse from the likes of John Lennon and Bob Dylan, as much as by …
The youngest of six kids, Bruce Murray was born into a musical family in Springhill, Nova Scotia, and is the younger brother of Anne Murray. He took piano lessons as a child, and was the regular organist at church by the time he was 11. Like his famous sister, he initially had dreams of becoming …
Putting to rest any doubt of the impact “Beachcombers” has had on Canadian culture, Bruno Gerussi’s Medallion was formed in Vancouver in the mid 1990s by frontman Tom Harrison, his brother Don and Ron Hyslop on guitars, Jim Elliott on bass, and drummer Mike Schmidt. Tom Harrison was also hosting a North Vancouver community cable …
Entagled in the late ’60s roots of nearly a dozen other groups before and after was Toronto’s Brutus. Formed by Walter Zwolinski on vocals and keyboards, and bassist and agent Tom Wilson (ex of Little Caesar And The Consuls), by the fall of ’69 they’d filled out the lineup with guitarist Sonny Wingay, drummer Len …
Born in Kingston, Ontario on Nov 5, 1959, Bryan Adams was already a veteran of the rock scene while still a teen. He toured as a back up singer for Nancy Nash for awhile and then fronted a band called Shock. But it was when he was hired as the third vocalist for Sweeney Todd, …
Jim Clench memorial Contrary to popular belief, the fire of BTO did not rise from the ashes of The Guess Who, at least not directly. After taking a hiatus from Canada’s greatest supergroup of the time, Randy Bachman released his first solo venture, 1970’s AXE. Despite it’s less than enthusiastic response, he still officially announced …