By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett Montreal homeboy Corey Hart bid adieu to 12,000 of the faithful in a heartfelt four-hour concert at the Bell Centre on June 3, a much-anticipated show that Hart billed in interviews as his last-ever. It was a fine way to cap a stellar 30-year music career that saw […]
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Montreal’s Jazz Fest 2014 makes for Hot Summer Nights
Spectra was proud to announce the outdoor lineup of free concerts being presented at this years festival. Local talent includes some of Montreal’s finest including Susie Arioli, Dawn Tyler Watson, Steve Hill, Jim Zeller, Paul Deslauriers, Eric Farran with his Ramblers. Or dance the night away at Le Tropiques with the amazing talent being brought […]
Spring Ramblings of a Drummer
The snow has melted revealing a winter’s worth of dog doughnuts. Welcome to Montreal. We moved our clocks forward. If you didn’t …leave home now you’re late. It’s hard to lose an hour of sleep, but it’s better than total darkness at 4:30pm. The Saint Paddy’s day parade invited all Montrealers to make complete […]
Heart Attack! The Wilson sisters show the boys how to rock ‘n’ roll
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett The first time Heart played in Montreal, they were hired at the very last minute to open for Rod Stewart at the Montreal Forum in 1976. Heart were playing at Lucifer’s nightclub in Calgary at the time and rode the train to Montreal because that’s all they could […]
The true colours of Cyndi Lauper
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett I will never forget the time pop icon Cyndi Lauper opened for Cher at Montreal’s Bell Centre back in 2002: Cyndi stole the show midway through her opening set when she walked centre stage draped in a Rainbow flag to sing True Colors with only Kat Dyson on […]
Lou Reed: The Life by Mick Wall (Orion Books, $34.99)
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “…nothing Lou Reed ever did was fully embraced first time around.” -Mick Wall It is said that the Velvet Underground never sold more than a dozen albums, but everyone who bought one started their own band. Described as “…the most significant cult band in the world,” they influenced every […]
The Edwards Twins: Divas Las Vegas!
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett Bette Midler thinks he’s divine, Cher thinks he’s strong enough and Barbra Streisand invited him to be her paparazzi decoy double on tour. That’s how fabulous a master female impersonator Eddie Edwards is. “I had no idea I could make a living doing this!” Edwards, half of the […]
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars: The road home
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett For years Rueben Koroma lived in refugee camps to escape the civil war that ravaged his home nation of Sierra Leone – ranked third-lowest country on the Human Development Index and eighth-lowest on the Human Poverty Index – from 1991 to 2002. Koroma fled north to […]
Watch: Bar Fly visits Crobar
In this edition of Bar Fly, Abby Elizabeth visit Crobar on Crescent Street below Ste. Catherine:
Take 5 with TAKE 6 – All 4 a Cause
Contributed by Rik Roe TAKE 6 has won more GRAMMYs than any other vocal group in history and they’re coming to Montreal! Kimberly Zimmer’s Get It Promotions is proud to announce a benefit concert by multi-GRAMMY Award-winning vocal group TAKE 6 on March 23, 2014 at Montreal’s intimate Gesù Theatre. TAKE 6 (Claude McKnight, Mark Kibble, Joel Kibble, Dave […]