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Canadian blues singer/guitarist David Gogo in 2011. Canadian blues is the blues and blues-related music (e.g., blues rock) performed by blues bands and performers in Canada. Canadian blues artists include singers, players of the main blues instruments: guitar (acoustic and electric), harmonica ("blues harp"), keyboards (piano and Hammond organ ...
Sep 21, 2023 · Shakura S’Aida Hold on to Love (Independent, 2022).. Toronto based singer, songwriter, and actress Shakura S’Aida’s fourth album, Hold on to Love, was nominated for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year at the 2023 JUNO Awards (Canada’s answer to the Grammys), but pigeon-holing it as “roots music” seems too limiting: Hold on to Love blends the traditional with the creative, heads ...
The top Canadian blues artists gathered in celebration of Canada's 150th anniversary. Hear Colin James, Shakura S'Aida, Jeff Healey, MonkeyJunk and more!
Sep 30, 2024 · John’s Blues Picks is the monthly album review column originally launched by the late Toronto-based blues historian and broadcaster, John Valenteyn. Submission can be sent to the TBS office for consideration and will be circulated to a pool of journalists and others for review in the monthly Maple Blues newsletter and placed at the Spotify playlist.
The Toronto Blues Society acknowledges the annual support of the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage, and project support from FACTOR. and the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage (Canada Music Fund) and of Canada’s Private Broadcasters, The Canada Council for the Arts, the SOCAN ...
The music and lyrics are mostly brand new, but the rhythm-and-blues musical style is back in the middle 50's when rock was an infant crying for recognition." - Paul Bennett (Victoria B.C. Times) "A testament to James' unbounded good humor, his enthusiasm for roots rock and to his command of the slide guitar - Paul's album Almost Crazy works."
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Co-founder of the Toronto Blues Society in 1985, John was a pillar of the Canadian blues community broadcasting at CIUT 89.5 FM for fourteen years following a twenty year run with The Blues Hour at CJRT (now jazzfm). According to life long Port Colborne friend Doug McVicar, John’s first taste of broadcasting at Queens University flipped him from a path in engineering to the Ryerson Radio and ...
