by chartz_2j82lc | Oct 3, 2018 | The Arts Collection
So far, this little series of stories has focused on my brief, but for me, memorable encounters with musicians. This piece is about my encounters with the grand “old lady” of Canadian music…the legendary Horseshoe Tavern on Queen West in Toronto. I unexpectedly fell...
by chartz_2j82lc | Sep 16, 2018 | The Arts Collection
Who does not love a child prodigy? I remember my first glimpse of a kid that set us back on our heels as he lit up small town community halls across the fine province of Saskatchewan. It was time when we still had leaders who loved the culture in agriculture, notes...
by chartz_2j82lc | Jun 16, 2018 | The Arts Collection
The tension between one’s art and success is as old as humans; I suppose … this is a story about a fine musician and that tension … Have you ever, by mistake, tuned into an AM commercial radio station and in doing so, set off a toxic flare in your brain upon hearing a...
by chartz_2j82lc | May 16, 2018 | The Arts Collection
Listen to the story as you read along … I first heard Billy Cowsill, like many of my generation, in the late sixties, on the push button radio of my 1953 Plymouth Cranbrook. The music was not coming through with the clarity of todays Bose car speakers, but it...
by chartz_2j82lc | Feb 1, 2018 | The Arts Collection
It was early in the eighties … and we needed a break We were still a very young couple married at least a decade and a half with three kids and very little cash, We had never travelled out of the country or really had a big time vacation together. Serendipitously, Air...
by chartz_2j82lc | Jan 1, 2018 | The Arts Collection
Early Days … my own roots Listen to the story as you read along … My first encounter with live music and musicians was in our living room. It came from the soundboard of the old Heinzman piano that my grandfather brought home home from town in the...
