The Lakeshore Corridor Community Team (LCCT) is hosting their 5th annual Down East Kitchen Party Fundraiser. Fiddle extraordinair, Sandy MacIntyre and Steeped in Tradition will be entertaining for the fourth year in a row.
May 11, 2013 at the Port Credit Legion Branch 82 at 35 Front Street North, Port Credit (Mississauga). We thank the Legion for kindly providing the venue!
Tickets are available at 2 Port Credit stores (cash only)
Well, this is now about a year ago that Newfoundlander Donnie Dumphy was in Toronto for a show at Lee’s Palace and he stopped by The Edge Morning Show with Dean Blundell.
The interview is pretty funny, check it out.
‘I’m not that into gay porn but do like wrestling’
‘Do you ever freestyle?’ ‘Yes but you can’t understand it’
For more on Donnie Bumphy make sure to check out his website.
This is a bit old as it was originally posted online a year ago but I came across it again today and thought it was worth sharing. Shaun Majumber is one of the funniest and most successful Newfie Comedians and here is his bit on Newfie Directions from his This Tour Has 22 Cities comedy tour.
On September 29, 2012 the Bluenose II was relaunched in Lunenburg, NS after a major refit.
Bluenose II is a replica of the fishing schooner Bluenose which was built in 1963 as a promotional yacht for Oland Brewery and became Nova Scotia’s sailing ambassador in 1971.
Image thanks to https://www.facebook.com/sailbluenoseii
Jordi Comstock is one of Canada’s top session drummers, his schedule consists of recording sessions with many of the nations top players in styles ranging from Jazz to Hard Rock and tours that include Outdoor Festivals, clubs, Theatres and TV performances.
Jordi is nominated for Musician of the Year by Music Nova Scotia as well several records he has performed on are up for awards as well including Catahoula Brown’s record is up for blues album, Steve Gates is up for folk Album and male artist, Mark Cameron is up for country album and Know Issues record that is up for Hip Hop album of the year. Jordi will also be performing at the awards gala with Mark Cameron and showcasing with Acres And Acres there this year as well.
We had the opportunity to ask Jordi a few questions to get to know a bit more about him, check it out!
When did you first realize that you wanted to get into the music and entertainment business?
I really decided that I wanted to play music for a living when I started my first band with my brother when I was 10.
Who would you consider to be your biggest influences in music?
Being that I play a lot of rock, folk and pop gigs my biggest influences may not be that obvious, I grew up studying jazz as my primary focus and I’ve read a ton of biographies on the greats from the 40s, 50s and 60s. I’m also a big fan of the records that were made at Stax, Motown and by The Wrecking Crew in the 60s, those were groups of fantastic musicians who worked in the studios everyday and were responsible for some of the greatest music ever made.
Where was your first public performance and who was it with?
My first public performance would have been a hospital benefit at Centre School when I was 10 and it was with the band my brother and I started, at the time I think we were called Smash which we later changed to Downfall.
So far, what moment would you consider to be one of your career highlights in the music industry?
People that I grew up with me know that when I was a kid I was obsessed with Bonnie Raitt’s Luck Of The Draw album and I still listen to it on a regular basis so when I got a call from Catahoula Brown to book me to play with him at the Dutch Mason Blues Festival where we’d be on the bill with Bonnie Raitt, I remember thinking wow things are really going my way! I’ve had a number of cases in the last while where I’ve gotten to play with and meet a number of my childhood idols so I feel pretty lucky.
You’ve worked with so many great musicians, bands and projects, is there any artists out there that you would really love to work with in the future that you haven’t worked with yet?
I’m a big Daniel Lanois fan, I love the way he blends styles and his song writing so that would be pretty cool.
What do you consider to be your favorite East Coast live music venue?
The Lunenburg Opera House holds a special place in my heart, it’s one of the vibiest places ever and I got my start doing record session work when Red Fish audio was upstairs.
If you were to pick one, what would your favorite recording project be?
I think I’d have to say the last Air Traffic Control Record “Tear The House Down”. We did it at my studio, we had just gotten a ton of new gear that had been on my wish list for a while, there was no deadline and I was working with my best friends and family, it doesn’t get much better than that!
Being on tour you get to see a lot of different places and people, do you have any funny or strange tour stories that you could share?
I remember being on tour with a country band and we had played a show in Quebec City, the crowd was great, we were having a blast with them, they even locked the doors of the club and had a sing along/jam with us late into the night and kept feeding everyone drinks. The bass player and I were getting pretty tired and we had a lengthy drive the next day so we tried to encourage the other guys to head back to where we were staying to get some sleep but they passed and said don’t worry we’ll just get a cab once they were ready. So the bass player and I woke up the next morning, the guys weren’t there and we had to get on the road pretty soon to hit the next town. The leader had a cell phone so we tracked him down and met up shortly after but the guitarist had no cell and the leader said he was invited to an even later jam session somewhere else and the guy didn’t have the address for where we were or our cell numbers, so we thought now we’re screwed! There was a diner down the street and the three of us were starving and stressed out so we thought maybe if we go get something to eat an idea will come to us. So we just finished eating and I could see in the distance a guy stumbling around in the middle of the street drunk as hell smoking a cigarette and then I realized…………. that’s our guitarist! So we threw him in the van and made the next show just in time.
Check out the Music Video for Air Traffic Control’s ‘Fun Street’
