Earlier this month in Toronto, a master class in songwriting was offered up by two of the greatest Gords in Canada – folk icon Gordon Lightfoot and Tragically Hip rocker Gord Downie in the inaugural concert of a new six-part series, If You Could Read My Mind, named for Lightfoot’s 1970 breakthrough song. Sponsored by [...]
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Springsteen to Guest on Spectacle
The Boss will be a guest on Elvis Costello’s Spectacle program this coming season on CTV in Canada (and on January 27 on Sundance in the U.S.). From a New Jersey Star-Ledger article by Jay Lustig about the 2-hour season finale with Bruce and members of his E-Street Band: Songs performed by the entire ensemble [...]
Singer-songwriter contest kicks off, every Tuesday night in Guelph
The Guelph Mercury recently reported on a weekly singer-songwriter contest taking place in Guelph at Frank and Steins every Tuesday night. Kudos to Malachi Greenidge, a Guelph singer-songwriter, for putting the contest together. As related in the article: The singer/songwriter competition will allow local musicians to not only expose their music to the crowd, but [...]
SongStudio ’09
Kudos to Blair Packham et al (which “al” includes Rik Emmett, Ember Swift, Steven Page, Zack Werner and more!) for setting up SongStudio ’09, described as a “week-long adventure in songwriting at Toronto’s Ryerson University” and scheduled to take place this summer: July 18 – 24, 2009. Just a bit from the website (which you [...]
Back with Elvis Costello
It’s been too long since I’ve posted… just busy work-wise and sad personal-wise to deal with my blogs but I’m excited about Elvis Costello’s Spectacle show finally being shown in Canada on CTV! I first posted about this a while back and more recently here… I won’t repeat what was said in my past posts, [...]
Musicshake… and Musicshare!
The Musicshake website declares “Music for Everyone, Created by YOU”. TechCrunch featured the site in an article published earlier today. The free Musicshake mixing program (Windows platform only, see interface screenshot below) “lets users create personalized, professional sounding music using a variety of modules and pattern-combination methods, which is quite addictive once you get the [...]
Elvis Costello and Nick Jonas Discuss Songwriting and Crazy Fans
From the recent edition of Rolling Stone: In the current issue of Rolling Stone, Elvis Costello superfan Nick Jonas sits down with his idol to talk about writing habits and handling fame. “As far as fans go: The only difficult thing is when they go in our house,” says Jonas. “That’s kind of odd for [...]
The League of Rock
Caught this article in the local Metro News freebie paper today… some items are worth more than you pay for them… Good on the League of Rock founder, Terry Moshenberg, for having the vision to give us middle-age wannabes a stab at minor glory… From the article: While a few 20-somethings proudly count themselves among [...]
Jam-Write with Adriel
I had a productive evening last night with a co-writer that I met at the Songwriting class I took last fall. Adriel is a multi-talented guitar player, singer, songwriter and production wiz. We laid down the basic tracks to a song we wrote in class (Love Is Just A Breath Away). As soon as we [...]
A Beat Away From My Heart (Reach Out)
A Beat Away From My Heart (Reach Out) is a new (old) song that I recorded at JL Studios in downtown Toronto in October 2007 (thanks to my lovely wife for that Christmas present in 2006) . Jeffrey at JL Studios mixed it up nice and in spite of my singing, I think it’s a [...]
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