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Scissors was the brainchild of Vancouver’s Bill Barker, who’d bounced around in a few groups until hooking up with bassist Ray Fulber, ex of Poisoned. He’d also played with Barker prior to that in the short lived Nytro a couple years earlier. The band was rounded out by organist Jan Henriksen and drummer Bruce Faulkner, …
Scott Merritt Artist profileBy Coral Andrews Scott Merritt is one of Canada’s most intriguing music minds to come along in decades. In addition to his now-rare debut release DESPERATE COSMETICS, Merritt had four other strong albums on his highly eclectic music roster: SERIOUS INTERFERENCE, produced by a young Dan Lanois [Peter Gabriel, U2], GRAVITY IS …
Scrubbaloe Caine is at the roots of what would become several other Canadian household names. The band was formed when guitarist Jim Harmata and bassist Bob Kidd, who’d played together in the mid 60’s in Jason Hoover and The Epics and the R&B All Stars, and keyboardist Al Foreman left their on-again, off-again individual groups …
Sudbury, Ontario natives Mark Corbin and Jim Norris first started playing together while still in high school, and afterwards had formed Taxi. By 1968 the group got enough exposure and good reviews playing the clubs that they moved, trying their luck in Toronto. A name change to The Tote Family saw the release of a …
Named after a Maritime Sasquatch legend, Sasquatch is one of Newfoundland’s proudest wavers of the pop/traditional flag and the Maritimes’ brightest shining stars, they’ve steadily built their following among Newfoundlanders and mainlanders since the late 90’s, spreading their message from coast to coast. The band got their start by accident, when guitarist Chris Andrews and …
Born in San Rafael, California in 1951, Shari Ulrich’s childhood was one where she was brought up in music. The youngest of three children, her mother was adept at the piano, and her father used the recorder as an escape from the doldrums of his banking job. Influenced by the likes of The Beatles, Joni …
Shawne Jackson began singing in public as a child in her Toronto church choir. While growing up, her experience continued singing in various other local productions and groups thrown together for one reason or another. By the time she was 15 she’d landed a steady gig on CBC TV’s “Music Hop” program. It was only …
The pride of Saskatoon, The Sheepdogs personify making it on hard work and determination. Often referred to as ‘a talented Nickelback’, they formed in 2006 around guitarists Ewan Currie and Leot Hanson, Ryan Gullen on bass and Sam Corbett on drums. Before long the were playing all the hot spots on the prairies and writing …
Formed in 1979 by friends Arnold Lanni on keyboards and vocalist Freddy Curci, Sheriff was rounded out by longtime friend/bassist Wolf Hassel, Steve de Marchi on guitars, and Rob Elliott on drums. With a blend of light rock and pop sensibility, they became fixtures on the Toronto scene while writing their own material. In 1982 …
Sherry Kean Huffman bounced around in several groups around the Toronto area during the late 1970s before forming The Sharks with guitarist and future husband David Baxter. At that time she dropped Huffman from her monikor, and while The Sharks’ lineup changed from time to time, they became a fixture on the Toronto bar scene, …