by chartz_2j82lc | Feb 1, 2022 | The Arts Collection
Listen to the story as you read along … It is the Juno weekend of 2018 as I write this little story. Twenty-seven years ago, I went to my first and I suppose only Juno Awards show. The Juno Awards are named after Pierre Juneau, one of my early public service...
by chartz_2j82lc | Jan 30, 2022 | The Arts Collection
I had been working pretty hard for a couple of days in Toronto and was happy to be boarding a plane for the four-hour flight home to Saskatoon. So I was tired, cranky and very much deep into my own head as I boarded. The one silver lining was that a few minutes...
by chartz_2j82lc | Jan 29, 2022 | The Arts Collection
Big Bill Broonzy, famed Chicago bluesman, for much of his life, sang the blues on Saturday nights to make a living and engaged in some “fire and brimstone” preaching on Sunday mornings to honor his father. This battle between the Devil owning Saturday night and...
by chartz_2j82lc | Jan 28, 2022 | The Arts Collection
Recorded 2014 at Seventh Street Sound Studios I grew up in the historic little town of Battleford Sask. It was a town that from the beginning had an uneasy relationship with its First Nations neighbors. The town grew from an early fur trade post three hundred...
by chartz_2j82lc | Sep 1, 2020 | The Arts Collection
Listen to the story as you read along … As I write this, the music community and the neighbourhood is once again rising in support of a local institution facing survival in these tough times. The iconic Ironwood Stage and Grill is a well loved and greatly...
by chartz_2j82lc | Nov 1, 2018 | The Arts Collection
Listen to the story as you read along … Most of these stories have been a product of serendipitous encounters with various musicians or a bit of a by product of some freelancing, but since moving to Calgary I have also had the opportunity to actually buy an...
