Ottawa Gnarly Rockers Still Going Strong

 Photo credit: Rick Arbuckle Photography It’s Ottawa, dinner time on a Saturday – the place is full of rock ’n’ roll retirees - hoppin’ and a boppin’, strutting their stuff. What’s wrong with this picture? Do your parents know what you are up to? A strange phenomenon - like a

Dialling Into the Divine Frequency of Santana

 Photos by Dan Nawrocki Dance with the unknown  Take a leap of faith Go out on a limb Stick your neck out Face your fears Reinvent yourself -Carlos Santana- Picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine… No, wait, somebody already took that trip. Envision yourself pulled by

A Look Back on the Path Forward with Graham Nash

 My old man  He's a singer in the park  He's a walker in the rain  He's a dancer in the dark  -Joni Mitichell The cover of Graham Nash's new album sees the musician frozen within the single click of a photograph frame. His back is to the camera but his movement

Plans of His Own – The Gordon Lightfoot Interview – Part 2

 Listen to part two of our interview with Gordon Lightfoot above. Part one can be found here. Gordon Lightfoot walks in on a young Bob Dylan hunkered over a typewriter, the poetry of his renowned lyricism passing through his fingers and onto the keys to be imprinted in ink on paper.

Plans of His Own – The Gordon Lightfoot Interview – Part 1

 Listen to part one of our interview with Gordon Lightfoot above. The singer lay silenced, his synapses struggling for some light within the darkness of the coma that had muted his voice. An eye flutter here, a possible movement there but the man who’s music meant much to many, a

Time Travelin’ Band! Fogerty brings us back to Woodstock and beyond

 All photos by Andre Gagne. Note: Images are from John Fogerty's 2011 Bluesfest performance. “Who’ll Stop the Rain?” Who else but John Fogerty? As the ponchos came off and the umbrellas went down last night at RBC Bluesfest, it was perhaps no surprise to one of this festival’s biggest crowds