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The brainchild of vocalist Myles Hunter and bassist Manfred Leidecker, they’d bounced around in different Ottawa bands for a couple of years and in 1976 were putting together a new band. They recruited guitarist friend Bob Deeks, who suggested adding Robert Holtz to handle drums. They were writing some material going somewhere in the new …
The beginnings of The Barra MacNeils weren’t unlike most family groups, growing up with music in the home and everyone picking up the different instruments that were laying around the house – and deeply rooted in Celtic culture, its music, dance, language, and history. The name comes from the Scottish island of Barra, the ancestral …
Born and raised in Edmonton, Barry Allen Rasmussen grew up in a musical family, and learned guitar and took singing lessons while young. While attending Victoria High School, he was a member of the curling club, and had aspirations of becoming a chartered accountant. But by the time he’d graduated, he was looking at a …
Arguably the most prolific act to come out of Cornwall, Ontario, the roots of Barstool Prophets initially grew out of a band called The Edsels that bassist Glenn Forrester and drummer Bobby Tamas started when they were only 14. By the time they were in high school they recruited singer/guitarist Graham Greer and changed their …
BB Gabor memorial Born Gabor Hegedus in 1948, his family fled Hungary and the political revolution there to England when he was only 8. Music didn’t become a factor in his life until moving to Toronto at age 23. Gabor became a staple of the local underground scene during the late 70’s, where his industrial …
Canada’s pop princess of the new millennium, Avril Lavigne was born in Belleville, Ontario in 1984, but grew up in a musical family in nearby Napanee. She was singing singing church songs with her mother before she was in school, and often used music and writing as escapes from the problems she was having in …
Unquestionably the most prolific and successful songwriting duos in Canadian music history began when Burton Cummings was asked to join Chad Allan and The Expressions in January, 1966. Allan would leave within a few months and the band officially adopted their nickname of The Guess Who. Over four records, the band tore up the charts …
Rick Danko memorial Levon Helm memorial Richard Manuel memorial When Ronnie Hawkins came to Toronto for a series of shows in the late 50’s, he brought with him a rockabilly sound which was totally foreign to the crowds. This wasn’t his first trip to Canada. And because the money was better than in the Deep …
They got their name from the medieval Gaelic term for a poet or minstrel who made his money playing for royals and such, although it was still a popular term when William Shakespeare was known as the Bard of Avon. Hailing from Montreal, Barde was the brainchild of the two Irishmen in the group: Toby …
Steven Page and Ed Robertson first began playing together in the mid 80’s as part of a Rush tribute. Rumour has it when the Scarborough, ON natives first decided to go out on their own, they got the idea of the name after seeing Bob Dylan in concert, who used the phrase “A barenaked lady …