Music news and ideas in Hamilton, Canada
Music news and ideas in Hamilton, Canada
The Coach and Lantern Last month’s Blues Studio show at the upstairs Coach and Lantern was sold out. Co-owner and general manager Andrea Cassis is in music heaven. Even after adding an extra night they could barely supply enough…
Vocal and Guitar Duo Room For Two Take Their Gig To King Street East [JULY 14, 2012] Evening pedestrians on King Street East were pleasantly surprised on three separate occasions in May, June and July. Room For Two, a vocal…
Carolyn French and Andrew Thies, Drumline Entrepreneurs “The more our kids do parades and performances, the better and more motivated they are.” Carolyn French hit the ground in full stride when she started her teaching career at Burlington’s M.…
June 12, 2012 “… impeccable sense of taste and control.” Tim Perlich, CBC My special moment when talking with Diana Panton the other day was when she was flipping through her calendar book to tell me about upcoming shows, and…
by Ronald Weihs, Artistic Director, Artword Theatre There has been a lot of talk recently about the role played by the arts in urban development. Notice has been taken that when a neighbourhood becomes sufficiently desolate, artists start to move…
Just when I was getting my head wrapped around the idea of two secondary school drumlines in the area — Burlington’s M. M. Robinson Percussion and Hamiltons’ St. Mary’s Crusaders — being in existence, yesterday’s Ontario Drumline Finals at St.…
by David Fawcett Each of us lives with music every day. Be it incidentally, as in a grocery store or as an accompaniment to media, or intentionally and purposefully, music is all around us. Not everyone draws or uses arithmetic…
What could possibly bring a seventyish year old guitarist back on stage ready to wail on his axe? With so many younger players facing exhaustion and discouragement from time on the road, hauling gear and disappointment in the business, Russ…
In the early sixties Russ Carter was riding the crest of the wave of soul, rhythm and blues music that was flooding Hamilton. His band, The Bishops, could be called Hamilton’s first rhythm and blues band. Carter states that The…