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Frank Marino grew up in Montreal surrounded by music and formed what would become Mahogany Rush with Paul Harwood on bass and drummer Jim Ayoub in 1970. Heavily influenced by the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Marino’s early guitar-work was frantic but engaging, and showed a lot of promise. The band recorded MAXOOM in Quebec City’s …
Formed in the early 1960s as Jay Smith and The Majestics, Smith shared lead vocals with Shawne Jackson (ex of The Silhouettes), and they soon became one of the leading big band groups around the Toronto area. Smith’s stay was short, but they managed one single on Aragon Records in 1965 entitled “Driven From Home,” …
Domenic Troiano memorial Before the implementation of Canadian content regulations, homegrown music was naturally very much segregated by region without radio to expand a group’s listening audience. One of Toronto’s hottest new sounds in the mid 60’s was a ‘bleached-soul groove’. Ironically, many of the leaders of the new soul-jazz fusion were actually immigrants from …
The Vancouver-based foursome can boast one of the most unique stories as to how they first formed. Frontman Josh Ramsay and guitarist Matt Webb were in a highschool choir together in 2000, untypical to say the least. “As uncool as that is, it’s worked out pretty well so far,” Ramsay joked. After recruiting Mike Ayley …
Formed in 1977 in Toronto, early members came and went through a revolving door, but the core of the band comprised of guitarists Marc Gane & David Millar, two students at Ontario College For The Arts. They recruited a former psychology and theatre student at Toronto’s York University named Martha Johnson of O Those Pants …
Proudly waving Quebec’s thrash metal flag, Martyr was formed in the early 1990s by Trois-Riviers brothers Daniel and Francois Mongrain on guitars and bass, and high school friends Pier-Luc Lampron on guitars and drummer Francois Richard. The number of venues to play were smaller and the audiences were even smaller, but they’d played off and …
Growing up in Edmonton in the late ’50s gave Mary Saxton musical influences that ranged from everything from Motown to big band to pop, and she put her talents to use at various live festivals and any other chance she could get to get on stage. She was barely old enough to drive when she …
Born in Hamilton, Matt Mays moved to Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia while young, and joined his first professional group, The Guthries, after moving to Halifax once he was out of high school. The band released a pair of albums beginning in 2000, but Mays struck it out on his own after the second album two …
Originally from Burnaby, BC, Matthew Good first had aspirations of being a folk singer, and in 1992 was fronting the Rockester Kings after moving to Vancouver from Coquitlam. While he and guitarist Simon Woodcock attended an open mic night one night at Simon Fraser Univesity, they were seen by manager Brent Crhistensen, who got them …
Hailing from Whitehorse, Claire Ness has made her mark as one of the hottest commodoties, and most versatile performers the Yukon has ever offered up. It takes a special performer to get a crowd to join in the song and enjoy itself. And Pierceland was treated to two of them on Thursday night, March 3rd …