Kori Pop: Versatile, Unique, Intense
A Reprint from The Hamiltonian’s Musical Notes – Kori Pop by Angelo Noto Campanella I first heard Kori Pop sing 2 years ago at a huge summer party in Grimsby. I even recorded one of her songs but the crowd…
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Ancaster’s Coach And Lantern: A Perfect Venue For Great Music
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…
Musicians and Urban Renewal
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…
The Horrible Danger Of Giving Drums To Teenagers
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.…
Diana Panton: The Song Is Everything
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…
The New Frontier: Music And Urban Development
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…
Feeling The Beat With Hamilton Area Drumlines
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.…
On the Value of Vocal Music in the Public Schools
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…
Four Smart Tactics From A Veteran Musician
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…