Tim Hicks: Giving Canadian Country the Shakes
By David DeRocco When you hail from Niagara, you know that September is time for the harvest. So it makes sense that a country star like Tim Hicks would pick September to harvest the crop of songs he’d been tending too during five months of intensive writing and...The Trews: Homeward Bound
By David DeRocco Colin MacDonald probably wasn’t thinking about his music when he originally sat down with his bandmates in THE TREWS to write the single “Man of Two Minds” for their 2008 album No Time For Later. Yet 14 years and five albums into their amazing career,...Crazy “8s” at Niagara Artists Centre
By David DeRocco There are musical performances accompanied by a backdrop of projected images; there are film screenings that conversely feature soundtracks of recorded music. Then there is A NEW PLACE TO DWELL, a multi-media mash up being orchestrated by Canadian...Tim Hicks: Homegrown Country Comes Back Home
By David DeRocco At the time of our conversation, Tim Hicks and his band are rolling toward Vancouver, three weeks into a rollicking road trip dubbed the “Get A Little Crazy Tour 2015.” Does the “crazy” in the tour name reflect the fact this Canadian country music...Lakes of Canada: Channeling Margaret Atwood through Transgressions
By David DeRocco A staged terrorist attack on the United States blamed on Muslim extremists kills the President and wipes out most of Congress. In the resulting chaos, a totalitarian Christian theocracy rises to overthrow the U.S. government, suspending the...ZZ TOP: View From the Mountaintop
By David DeRocco There’s a rarified air that exists when you’re sitting on top of the mountain, viewing the world from a position of fame and fortune. As the lyricist, musical arranger, vocalist and de facto leader of Texas blues-rock superstars ZZ Top, Billy Gibbons...Great Canadian Campout – CWF & Johnny Reid
CLIENT: Canadian Wildlife Federation WRITTEN BY: David DeRocco PSA: GREAT CANADIAN...Darlene Love: A Star is Reborn
By David DeRocco Darlene Love began her career while still in high school, recording for legendary producer Phil Spector in a little-known girl group called The Blossoms. It’s ironic then in 2015, over half a century into her hard-earned Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...Boz Scaggs: For the Love of the Music
By David DeRocco If you had to speculate on the type of blood Boz Scaggs has running through his veins, Type O might be a good guess. It would only make sense that the fluids flowing through a musician so versatile would be classified as “universal.” Scaggs has...The Sanctuary: Putting Ridgeway On The Map
There was a time when wanting to have fun in Ridgeway, Ontario, meant getting in your car and leaving town. These days, however, there’s a “sanctuary” drawing people back to Ridgeway that could make this tiny hamlet one of the most happening live event hubs in...Ginger St. James – Serving Up “Diesel & Peas”
By David DeRocco When a country girl named Ginger St. James aims to serve you up a heapin’ helpin’ of “Diesel and Peas,” – well mister, you just better accept her invite and her hospitality. ‘Cause if you don’t – well sir, you’re a’gonna miss yourself some mighty fine...Hollerado – On the Verge of Greatness
By David DeRocco The members of Hollerado are on the verge – of releasing a new album, of embarking on a summer tour, of finally achieving the level of success that’s so-far evaded them, and maybe, on the verge of a massive breakdown from exhaustion. Who really knows...BRENT BUTT: CANADA’S REIGNING COMEDY KING
By David DeRocco There’s probably dozens of surreal moments that occur over a lifetime when you’re a kid from small-town Saskatchewan who winds up becoming an international comedy, television and movie star. For Tisdale-born Brent Butt, one of the strangest such...ALAN DOYLE’S GREAT BIG SOLO SUCCESS
By David DeRocco “The long road’s behind us” declares Alan Doyle on SO LET’S GO, the eponymous lead-off track on the new solo album from the longtime voice of Great Big Sea. And yet, with everything going on in Alan’s life – a new album, a new memoir and a new solo...Matthew Barber’s Latest Romance
By: David DeRocco Any writer will tell you how cathartic the process of expressing thoughts on paper can be. When a writer is also a musician, there’s always the potential to combine such emotional purging with the recording of some very powerful and...George Thorogood – The Icon Returns
By David DeRocco Call it the circle of life, rock n roll version. August 16, 1977, on the day Elvis Presley lay dying in his bathroom, the American music label Rounder Records — known at the time for distributing obscure American roots...BLACK SABBATH: KINGS OF METAL COME TO STEEL TOWN
BLACK SABBATH COMES TO HAMILTON by David DeRocco There are many strange facts to be found when you’re scavenging through the dark history of BLACK SABBATH, the universally acknowledged uber-lords of British heavy metal. Things like their uncharacteristically...SELF ESTEEM AND SELF DISCIPLINE IMPROVES WITH MUSIC LESSONS
Teaching kids self-discipline and self-esteem is a reason parents often site for enrolling kids in martial arts classes. The Cambridge Conservatory of Music (http://www.ccomusic.net) can boast the same end results with an added bonus: rather than simply knowing how to...Getting the Shaft While Mining Sochi Hockey Gold
The biggest hockey shaft found at the Sochi Games isn’t the one carried by Slovakia captain Zdeno Chara. It’s the shaft perpetrated on nationalist hockey fans on both sides of the Atlantic who believe a gold medal confirms international hockey supremacy....Bubba’s Perfectly Presented Poutine
Is it time we voted poutine in as the official national food of Canada? As a purveyor of the most popular poutine in the Kingston area, Bubba’s Poutine and Pizzeria (http://www.bubbaspizzeria.com) would support that campaign. Times have certainly changed for...Niagara SEO Services
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