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Colleen Peterson memorial Originally from Peterborough, Ontario, Collen Peterson moved with her family to Ottawa when she was 10. By 13, she’d saved enough green stamps to buy her first guitar, which she learned to play while getting involved in music at Ridgemont High School. In 1966, and only 16 years old, she began performing …
It’s good fortune for country music fans that Colter Wall didn’t follow in his father’s footsteps and get into politics. Although it might too have one day led him to the Premier’s chair, instead the Swift Current, Saskatchewan native picked up a guitar when he was just a toddler and followed a musical path, and …
Named after a lunatic asylum outside London, England, Coney Hatch was formed in Toronto in 1980 by singer/bassist Andy Curran, Ed Godlewski on guitars and drummer Dave Ketchum. By the time guitarist Carl Dixon left Firefly to join them in February of ’81, Steve Shelski had replaced Godlewski and the band was already on their …
Born in 1953 in Regina, Connie Kaldor was raised with music in her home, and began playing piano while still a child. Along with her siblings, she was also part of the local Luthern Church choir, which her father was the choirmaster. She took up the guitar while in high school, and by then most …
Argued as Quebec’s first mainstream progressive rock band, Contraction was formed in 1971 after Christiane Robichaud was asked to do guest vocals on Franck Dervieux’s DIMENSION M album, an early keyboards based quasi-symphonic project. Robichaud was a member of the Ville Emard Blues Band, a Montreal ensemble that was instrumental in many Quebec radio and …
Born in Montreal in 1962, Corey Hart in many ways epitomized Canada’s music scene in the 1980s in both airplay and was one of the country’s first video darlings. The youngest of five children, the Hart family was constantly on the go because of the father’s real estate business, and lived in Florida, Mexico and …
After The Hunger Project had run its course in 1982, following a pair of songs on a 7″ single that went nowhere, childhood friends Michael Timmins and Alan Anton (real name Alan Alizojvodic) moved to London, England and formed Germinal. But by the summer of ’85 that group too had run its course, and they …
Originally from Jamaica, Crack of Dawn was formed by the brother/sister vocalist team of Jackie and Grant Gabriel, guitarist Rupert Harvey, and drummer Carl Otway. Before relocating to Toronto in the mid ’70s, lineup shuffles were frequent. But not long after arriving in Canada, the Gabriels moved back home, and the band eventually settled down …
When Linx had run its course in the mid 1970s, founding members and Hamilton natives guitarist Reg Denis (also ex of The Only 1’s, Royal Order, Tangerine Forest, and both versions of Pork – the five and six-piece) and bassist Patricia Warden decided to put together a new act – one that was as memorable …
Born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario, Craig Ruhnke began taking twelve years of piano lessons as a child, while also teaching himself guitar in the meantime. Shortly after leaving high school, he joined an up and coming group from Toronto called The Groovin’ Company. But when they disbanded after failing to make any waves, he …