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Even prior to it becoming a province in 1905, the few settlers in Saskatchewan played fiddle music around the fires in the cabins as one of their few means of entertainment. As the landscape became dotted with new families, the tiny village of Maple Creek popped up and nestled in the southeast corner of Saskatchewan …
Formed in Toronto, Myles & Lenny consisted of Montreal native singer Myles Cohen and Lenny Soloman, who was studying piano and violin before he was a teenager. While Cohen was a self-taught guitarist, Soloman’s love for the violin came naturally, as his father Stanley Soloman performed with the Toronto Symphony. Cohen had dabbled in a …
Hailing from Oshawa, Ontario, the original version of Reign Ghost was formed by brothers Jim and Bob Stright on guitars and drums respectively. But in early 1968 another psychedelic rock outfit in town called The Christopher Columbus Discovery of New Lands Band had folded, and singer Lynda Squires and drummer and Ottawa-native Bob Bryden (also …
Even getting past the first round of auditions for Canadian Idol is a feather in any performer’s cap. So considering the several thousand that try out, and to make it all the way to Toronto for the show’s tapings and making the top 100 is definitely the highlight of Sean Sayers’ budding career. The Cold …
Born in Charlottetown, PEI, Gary Weeks moved to the Toronto area with his family as a child. It was while in school he met Newmarket, Ontario native Dave Beckett. Right up through their times at the University of Western Ontario, they played in several bands together, including The Diplomats and Edgar And The Allan Poes. …
Shasta JadeArtist review Shasta Jade is the creative union of Francine Scala [vocals] and Donna Grantis [guitar] who together craft intelligent, purposeful music rich in soul and intense in feeling. The music of Shasta Jade is steeped in the traditions of jazz, rock and rhythm and blues and, although imbued with elements of these genres, …
Born in Vancouver in 1949, Terry Black was a child star who got his start singing on local TV variety programs. He was discovered by agent Buddy Clyde while watching him on “Teen Dance.” It was the height of the British Invasion, which Black mimmicked, so he had no problem getting the attention of Bill …
Born in Red Deer in 1972, Tineta Couturier moved to Drayton Valley as a child and grew up listening to the country sounds that were prevalent on the Alberta airwaves. At the age of 18 she won a talent contest at Cook County Saloon in Edmonton, where part of the prize was a recording contract …
Troyka was arguably Edmonton’s first forray into experimentation in the psychadelic rock scene. Guitarist Rob Edwards and bassist Ron Lukawitski were barely teens and starting The Ortegas in the early ’60s. A few years later, they added England native guitarist and singer Michael Richards (originally a piano student), and reinvented themselves as The Royal Family, …
Sprawl Artist reviewBy Matt Swift It’s too easy to look back to find excitement in earlier rock: A time when radio wasn’t strictly playlisted, bands didn’t have a median age of fifteen and commercial considerations weren’t the foremost factors involved. You could wear your headphones for hours listening to poets, freaks and misfits that were …