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Shirley Eikhard was born into a musical family in Sackville, New Brunswick in 1955. Her mother June was a renowned Maritime fiddler and the first woman to compete in the Canadian Open Old Time Fiddlers’ Contest. Her father Cecil also played guitar and bass in several country groups on the islands while she grew up. …
Not to be confused with a group of the same name a decade earlier, the only thing the two Toronto recording acts called The Secrets had in common was their hometown. In the late ’70s, and frustrated with the direction The Viletones was going, guitarists Freddy Pompeii and Chris Haight and drummer Mike Anderson hooked …
Alberta teemed with some of the best hard rock in the country in the ’80s, and among the cream of that crop was Sentinel. Hailing from the provincial capital, the band was formed in ’83 from the ashes of The Biz, a progressive rock outfit from Vancouver who saw one album released, A MATTER OF …
Hailing from the Cree Nation of Hobbema, Alberta, Shane Yellowbird was born in 1979 and grew up embracing traditional country music and the overall cowboy lifestyle. His father participated in the local area rodeo circuit, and he too got involved in roping and riding at an early age. His foray into music came quite by …
Shooter was initially known as The Greaseball Boogie Band, a covers band playing hits from the ’50s. Formed in 1970, most of the members had roots in other Toronto area bands, each enjoying various degrees of relative local success. They developed a following and landed a deal with GRT Records in ’73, releasing a self-titled …
Possibly no other group captures the true spirit of Alberta like Showdown. Though by no means do they belong in a website dedicated to classic Canadian rock …. IT’S MY SITE! … so let’s continue shall we? … A true collaberation of Alberta talent at its finest, Showdown began as a barn band in Armpit, …
Formed in 2009, Shred Kelly is a Fernie, BC based group that’s actually comprised of former Ontario residents who’d ventured west for the love of the mountains. Centred around Tim Newton on banjo and guitars and keyboardist Sage McBride, they wrote some material while playing mostly during open-mic nights around the ski village clubs. With …
Beginning in the late 1930s, Gino Silvi worked in various Hamilton and Toronto dance bands, and then took his saxophone and clarinet on the road for a few years with several orchestras. From there he sang with the Bill Brady Sextet on Toronto radio station CKEY, and then formed his own vocal ensemble, which recorded …
The Skaliwags were one of the Ottawa Valley’s hottest garage bands throughout the better part of the ’60s, centred around singer Ed Mitchell, guitarists John Bacho and Gerry Fortier, Andre Cote on bass, and drummer Jules Leclair. Making Gatineau, Quebec home base, they started gigging around the area as early as teens in ’61, and …