97 results for tag: Electric Guitar
Home-town legend B.C. Read possesses a soulful blues rasp and a bag of great blues tunes. He’s been preaching the gospel of Howlin' Wolf, B.B King, and Muddy Waters to audiences all over Western Canada for 40 years. Returning to play his annual mid-winter gig at the Bassment, B.C. has lined up his favourite musicians to ...
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Sons of Django pays homage to the music of Django Reinhardt, the Belgian-Romani guitarist who fused American and French jazz with a flamenco technique in the 1930s and ’40s. Performing classic Reinhardt compositions as well as popular jazz standards and contemporary manouche pieces, the Sons of Django are Stephen Davis (lead ...
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Randy Woods is a decades-long fixture of the Western Canadian music scene with a resume as long as a tall orangutan’s arm. His impeccable ear for music is matched by his genuine love of writing and performing with his band. Randy’s latest album, Soul Hammer, is a mix of funk, reggae, rock n roll, and R&B. Despite these ...
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The Barrelmen are four pals – Berkeley Buchko, Jody Giesbrecht, Tyler MacKenzie, and Craig Wilson - who love to make music together. Through lots of harmonies and lots of laughs, these singer-songwriters trade stories and instruments and bring a long list of folk, roots, and Americana originals to the table. With over a ...
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Led by composer/guitarist Ed Durocher, Winnipeg's Apollo Suns is a 9-piece instrumental collective that fuses the influences of jazz, rock, and psychedelic. Best known for its high-octane live show, the group has performed at the Winnipeg Jazz Festival, the Vermont Jazz Fest, and the Calgary Stampede. The band has several ...
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The instrumental jazz collective No Codes, consisting of Benjamin Deschamps, Sébastien Pellerin, Louis-Vincent Hamel, and jazz veteran Frank Lozano, presents their second album, Usual Suspects, scheduled for release in November 2024. Following their first album internationally acclaimed, the group continues to push the ...
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One of the most respected veterans of Canada’s blues-rock guitar scene, Toney Springer nurses a passion for blues, reggae, jazz, and rock that comes through in the original inventions of his power trio, Wild T & The Spirit. Since moving to Toronto from Trinidad in the 80s, Toney has been busy. He’s been a Hendrix clone, ...
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Big Dave McLean is a living blues legend. The Member of the Order of Canada has been spreading the good news about the blues since he broke on the scene in Winnipeg in the early 70s. Since then Big Dave has played every blues club in the land and has at least influenced two generations of Canadian blues musicians along the way. ...
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Big Dave McLean is a living blues legend. The Member of the Order of Canada has been spreading the good news about the blues since he broke on the scene in Winnipeg in the early 70s. Since then Big Dave has played every blues club in the land and has at least influenced two generations of Canadian blues musicians along the way. ...
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Guitarist and composer Sylvain Cossette and his quintet are touring Canada to promote the group’s latest recording, Second Cycle. Each of the album’s nine compositions evoke either a state of mind, a season, or a very precise emotion felt in a certain situation or event. Sylvain’s quintet features some of Quebec’s ...
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