Our neighbours to the south weren’t the only ones giving thanks on the third Thursday of November. In Ottawa, music lovers celebrated the much-awaited return of Arkells to the stage at TD Place Arena for their Blink Once/Blink Twice tour. And what a party it was!
Ottawa music scene touched by the spirit, courtesy of Dear Rouge and guests Hotel Mira
It was a packed house at Ottawa’s Bronson Centre that awaited Dear Rouge and guests Hotel Mira for the second day of their Spirit Tour on November 23. Named after Dear Rouge’s newest album, the tour debuted in a sold-out show in Saint Catherines, Ontario the night before and features stops in 14 Canadian venues before it wraps up in Vancouver on December 10.
Luke Combs fires up packed house at Canadian Tire Centre
Ottawa has long had a reputation of being the city that fun forgot…but yet time and time again Ottawa music fans come out in droves to prove everyone wrong. Thursday night was no different as Luke Combs brought his long anticipated Canadian Tour to a sold out Canadian Tire Centre, his second visit to Ottawa this year. (Luke drew massive crowds this summer when he headlined RBC Bluesfest).
Photos: Five Finger Death Punch at The Shottenstein Center
Heavy Metal band Five Finger Death Punch brought their 2022 Fall North American Tour to The Shottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio on Monday night with support from Country Artists Brantley Gilbert and Cory Marks.
History In Toronto Brings Nickelback Out Of Hibernation
November 15th 2022 at History in Toronto was the night that Nickelback rose from hibernation since 2019! And boy was Toronto ready for them! Bringing all the hits and a few new ones too like “San Quentin”, “Those Days”, “High Time” and of course “Burn It To The Ground”, “How You Remind Me”, “Someday”, “Rockstar”, “Photograph” and loads of others. The Canadian boys from Hanna Alberta, who formed in 1995 showed everyone in the house how to get their faces rocked off! Yes they still have it.
Canadian music industry legend Ron Sakamoto to receive the prestigious Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award at the 2023 JUNO Awards
The award will be presented at the JUNO Opening Night Awards
Presented by Music Canada on March 11, 2023
CARAS to induct Nickelback into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at The 52nd Annual JUNO Awards
The “How You Remind Me” rockers will take the JUNOS stage in their home province of Alberta to commemorate the achievement
TD Bank Group presents the band’s Canadian Music Hall of Fame
induction and performance
Highway Of Heroes Tree Campaign
On November 2nd, downtown Toronto at Fort York National Historic site the goal of Highway Of Heroes Tree Campaign 2.5 millionth tree had been planted. Surpassing the initial goal of 2 million set back in 2014.
Jess Moskaluke launches Mapdot Tour in Ottawa and sets the bar high!
Country music fans filled the house at Ottawa’s Bronson Centre Tuesday night to see internationally acclaimed artist Jess Moskaluke perform live in the first headlining tour of her career. The November 1 show was the first stop on her 23-city tour with fellow artist Tyler Joe Miller.
Kingston Gets Some Northern Happiness!
What do you get when The Northern Pikes and The Pursuit Of Happiness get together? You get the Northern Happiness Tour and they rolled through Kingston last night at The Grand Theatre.
34 years ago, The Northern Pikes started their journey together. Over the years there have been a couple of personnel changes, but they have remained pretty much intact since the mid eighties with the exception of adding Kevin Kane to the lineup on guitar and vocals.
The Pikes are one of those bands who I think you have to see live to appreciate. With hits like She Ain’t Pretty or Girl With A Problem, we’ve heard them before but until you hear them play live I don’t think you get the idea of just how hard these guys rock. This is no light weight band, they rock with the best of them!
The band resurrected their recording career in 2019 after 16 years with the release of Forest of Love after Kevin Kane joined and it seemed to breathe new life into the Pikes. Another new album was in the works but had to be sidelined with travel and COVID restrictions during the pandemic, I’m sure this project will be available soon for fans.
After a short intermission, we were treated to a performance by The Pursuit of Happiness, another great Canadian Band from about the same era. Moe Berg and company are always a good time and their anthem I’m An Adult Now is remembered by all rock’n’roll fans who also remember the mid eighties. The band has obviously gone through changes but have had a stable lineup since 1997 when singer Renee Suchy joined.
When you see a band like The Pursuit Of Happiness, it is partially nostalgic, you hear those old songs and it brings unlocks memories of different times in your life. It was the glory days of MuchMusic and that video we all remember of a young Moe Berg proclaiming to be an adult now.
The current lineup of the band are amazing in their own right. Moe and drummer Dave Gilby are the only remaining original members but Kingston’s own Kris Abbott was a popular attraction at last night’s performance for sure. Her guitar and singing talents did not go unnoticed. The other singer in the show was Renee Suchy, with a voice of an angel. Rounding out the lineup was bassist Brad Barker doing a tremendous job as well.
This tour was a great idea. Two bands from a similar era in Canadian rock music on one bill like this works very well. It was a night for people to reminisce over some songs they may not have heard in a long time, hear some new stuff and just have a good time again. We needed that.
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