Daily ticket stories
On February 26th, 2009 I went to The Black Sheep in Wakefield, Quebec to see the great Kevin Breit. Not only was my favourite guitar player playing, he was sharing the bill with someone I had never heard of before, a guy named C. R. Avery…
For years the quite excellent Ottawa Jazz Festival has put on a small winter fest which I patronize on occasion, especially when the occasion features one of my favourite Canadian musicians: Kevin Breit…
When I was in my first year of university one of my profs arranged a jazz trio to play for one of our classes. I only remember one member of the trio – John Geggie – but I remember his performance that afternoon in my mind’s eye as vividly as if it were yesterday…
Peterborough is a pretty cool little town with a campus and a record store and more than it’s fair share of hip cafes…
The relatively small but wonderfully niche Guelph Jazz Festival had paired my two favourite guitar players to play together for the first (and only?) time…
You’d think that a guy who was in Toronto specifically to climb the steps of the CN Tower for charity would want to take it easy the night before the climb, maybe eat a healthy meal and get a good night’s sleep ahead of his 7am alarm clock setting. And I probably would have done exactly that had my favourite guitar player not been playing just a reasonable drive down the highway…
On October 10th, 2005 I drove to Toronto with some friends to see Sir Paul McCartney for the first time…
I was thrilled and excited for the chance to hear Kevin lead his Mandolin Quartet on July 27th, 2016 at a new Ottawa venue on King Edward Street called La Nouvelle Scène…
My friend’s wedding reception featured one of the most fun Sisters Euclid sets ever! In addition to tearing through a pile of their regular awesomeness that was quite familiar to most of us in the small, hand-picked crowd, the band tossed out a few fun nods to standard wedding band fare too…
A review I wrote long ago of 5, the fifth album from Kevin Breit’s acoustic ensemble Folk Alarm.
(reprinted courtesy of jambands.ca, not like I asked them or anything)
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