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Greg Adams memorial Not be confused with the jazz leader from the 1980s on, singer and songwriter Greg Adams was born into a musical family in Toronto in 1948. His mother sang in the church choir and his father was part of several low level doo-wop groups and early folk trios around the area. After …
Born in 1954 in Inverness County, NS as Francis McIntyre, Greg Keelor was adopted at the age of 3, and grew up with music a constant fixture in his home, listening to the country and folk mixed sounds of eastern Canada and the pop hits of the day on the airwaves. He learned to play …
Hailing from Richmond Hill, Ontario, Twin brothers Brian and Bruce Good originally fronted the popular The Kinfolk in the late ’60s with Marty Steiger and Margaret McQueen. They concocted a traditional country recipe with a distinct Canadian flavour while playing the coffeehouses and folk clubs in Toronto and the fairs throughout Ontario. When Steiger left …
Gordon Robert Tapp was born in London, Ontario in 1922, and grew up with music in the house, picking up the harmonica at age 5. He played in the school choir and took guitar lessons, performing in front of local crowds at fairs and the like while growing up. He studied at the Lornie Greene …
Born in Orillia, Ontario in 1938, Gordon Meredith Lightfoot was the youngest of two children, and the son of a successful drycleaning company owner. But it was his mother that encouraged his love for music from the earliest age, and made his first public performance singing an Irish folk song over the school intercom during …
A native of Glasgow, Scotland, Lawrence Gowan moved to Toronto while still a child, but had already taken piano lessons and showed glimpses of the showman he would become. His incredible stage presence comes by him naturally. A classically trained pianist at the Royal Conservatory of Music, he’s also formally studied with The Canadian Ballet. …
Born in Calgary, Graham Shaw’s family moved often when he was a child, living at times in Montreal and Regina. They settled in Winnipeg in the early ’60s, and always a musically inclined person, spent a short period in The Deverons with Burton Cummings, until Cummings left to join The Guess Who. He then formed …
Following the demise of Subtle Hints, Edmonton’s Brian Schultze and Curtis Ruptash (also ex of Pretty Rough) were looking to start a new recording project, one that expanded on the electronic beats of their last group, and further away from the pop songwriting conventions than what was on the airwaves at the time. “We definitely …
Domenic Troiano memorial Kurt Winter memorial Before the implimentation of Canadian content regulations, homegrown musicians usually didn’t get alot of airplay, and in reflection in some cases, proper respect. In the early ’60’s the Winnipeg scene was alive and vibrant with new and innovative sounds, mostly impersonations of what kids what were hearing on British …
Among the groups that tore up the Vancouver scene during the late ’80s was The Guy Jones Band. He assembled the group around guitarists Joe Wowk and Alfie Galpin, drummer Doug Grant (ex Ray Roper Band), and Marco Tambasco on bass. They toured the Vancouver ‘b’ circuit in 1986, developing a progressive rock style that …