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Foreigner bassist Jeff Pilson came to worldwide success and prominence in the 80s playing with the hard rock band Dokken. After a few more projects Jeff joined up with top metal vocalist Dio until 2004. He also had a brief acting gig in the Mark Wahlberg film Rock Star before becoming a member of the classic […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for March 2019: MUSIC Many top touring acts headline various Montreal concert venues this month. Highlights include Mumford & Sons (March 4), American rapper Travis Scott: Astroworld (March 5), Weezer & Pixies (March 13), KISS (March 19) and Muse (March 30), all at the Bell Centre. Over […]
Calgarian Indie folk band Rueben and the Dark are on their current tour of Ontario and Quebec in support of their latest release, Arms of a Dream. Vocalist Reuben Bullock was kind enough to talk with me this week while on the road. It’s very rare that I get to speak with someone who’s inspiration […]
Boom X is a highly entertaining and touching trip through the lives of Generation X. Rick Miller presents his one-man follow-up to Boom with a journey that is part hilarious nostalgia and part poignant reflection on the growing pains of the generation following the Boomers. It is fun, rousing, and thoughtful. With interviews of four […]
Is there any difference in how a ruler wields power in their kingdom and in their marriages? Should the wife behave as a partner or as a subject? How much control can she enjoy? The Last Wife is a modern feminist re-telling of King Henry VIII’s marriage to his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, who survived […]
The Canadian Strange Animal who has a Criminal Mind, Lawrence Gowan will be doing a tour this week in Quebec and Ontario. Gowan, of course, scored hit songs and albums one after another in the ’80s and early ’90s. Thanks to an opening slot for Styx at the Bell Centre in Montreal he was then […]
Curtains Up interview with folk hero and pop icon Buffy Sainte-Marie I have interviewed everybody from Cher to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and I rarely get nervous. But when I called up folk hero and pop icon Buffy Sainte-Marie at her home in Hawaii last week, I had the butterflies. That’s because Sainte-Marie has […]
After this huge snowstorm, some classic upbeat music goes a long way; something to remind us all that changes can be incredible and hopeful. Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is a wonderful, emotional, and joyful jukebox musical. It is a poignant journey of personal changes and heartbreaks with songs that still hold up after 50 […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for February 2019: MUSIC Many top touring acts headline various Montreal concert venues this month. Highlights include three blockbuster nights by Quebec pop star Marie-Mai at the Bell Centre (Feb. 14-15-16), and British classical crossover soprano Sarah Brightman at Place Bell (Feb. 9). Concerts by Cher and […]
The smash Broadway hit Beautiful – The Carole King Musical chronicles the life and career of legendary singer-songwriter Carole King, from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. From being part of a chart-topping songwriting team with her husband Gerry Goffin – with whom she cranked out some of the most important records of […]