So we asked all our Photographers to take am minute and submit what they felt was there best 15 shots and we would scale it down to their top 10 from there… We are so thankful for these folks. They make our pages come alive. What is YOUR favourite shot of 2015… Share it over on our Facebook Page
Corey’s Top 21 Country Songs of 2015
Over the last couple weeks I have seen a few top 10/20/25 songs of 2015 running around my Facebook / Twitter Pages. I thought to myself, I have listened to a boat load of music this year and should give you my top 21 Country Songs of 2015. So here it is. Oh… and please don’t be shy. Follow us on Twitter & Facebook! And leave a comment below on what your top 3 songs of 2015 would be. #BuckleUp..
Jason Benoit – Cold Day Comin’ Contest
Hot off the heels of the Get A Little Crazy Tour Jason Benoit releases his first video. Cold Day Comin’ is Jason’s video debut and we gotta say, well done! What do you think? We have a Jason Benoit Prize Pack for one lucky reader who lets us know what they think of Jason’s debut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eygyqonlPQ
Looking back at 2015
At the end of last year I looked ahead to 2015 and made a bold prediction that it would be bigger with more interviews with bigger artists, more festivals, more events and more contests. I could never have predicted exactly how much bigger the year would actually be.
Holiday Cheer with Bucko and Toad….
We haven’t covered Bucko & Toad till now and it just seems fitting with a great new Christmas Tune currently blasting over the airwaves on country radio we had a chance to ask the duo some festive questions…
1. Christmas usually has some special memories what would you consider your favourite Christmas Memory.
Kenn
“When I was about four years old I swore that I saw a magic dust come off of Santa’s sleigh and fall
from the sky, then somebody dressed in a Santa suit came over.. that was it…. I fully believed Santa
was real, I saw the proof!”
Kelly
“Christmas morning before we were allowed to run into the living room where the tree was is always
such a fun memory for me. My brother and I would be yelling together “can we come in yet!!!” And
my parents would joke and say not yet.. When they finally would let us run in the first glimpse at the
tree and gifts was so exciting!!”
2. Real or Fake Tree and why?
Kenn
“Real tree because of the smell but I’ll tell yeah I was getting really close to not having a real tree!
They’re really difficult to pull out of your house with all the needles falling. But Kelly’s solution to that
is to completely cut the tree limbs off one by one and take them out of the house, so that solves that.
Lol”
Kelly
“Real! I love everything about it! Choosing the perfect tree, the smell, it’s so nostalgic.”
3. Favourite Christmas Carol to sing?
Kenn
“Oh holy night is just a great Christmas song to sing because it’s just dramatic and big note at the end!”
Kelly
“I love singing Silent Night, it’s so peaceful and pretty!”
4. Best present you ever gave someone at Christmas?
Kenn
“I think sentimental are ones of my grandmothers reading the night before Christmas, I record of their
voices so that my mom and my dad could always hear their voices every Christmas forever.”
Kelly
“I gave Kenn an obscure book he had as a kid, I loved seeing his face recognize it when he opened it!”
5. What is it like to record a Christmas song in the “Off” season and how do you get in the mood for Christmas at that time of year?
Kenn
“We love Christmas spirit! So it was easy for us to imagine Christmas all year long!”
Kelly
“It was fun, like having two Christmases in one year!”
6. Tell us about recording your newly released Holiday Single “Frozen In Your Eyes” and how the idea / inspiration of the song came about and how long the writing process took on this one?
Kenn
“A few years ago Kelly and I were sitting around thinking wouldn’t it be great to have a Christmas
song! We didn’t want it to be full of Christmas trees and clichés so we decided to write about skating,
we remembered this one trip we took to a place called Butchart Gardens and Victoria that has an
outdoor skating rink so we use that as the inspiration for the song! Fast forward to 2015 we brought up
the idea of the Christmas song to Jonathan at 604 Records, he liked it! So we called up Tavish Crowe,
our Producer, he added his magic and bam! Frozen in your eyes!”
Kelly
“We wrote the song about 3 years ago just for something for our family and friends to enjoy, we
thought it would be fun to look back when we’re old and say “Haha we have a Christmas song!” The
song was based on a night we went skating at Butchart Gardens. Earlier this season we were tossing
around the idea of recording it again and having our producer Tavish Crowe give it a facelift, everyone
was onboard so that’s what we did!”
Here it is Bucko & Toad’s new Holiday Single Frozen In Your Eyes. Enjoy & Happy Holidays.
Ontario – A Hot Bed for Country Music Festivals in 2016
Ok so I think we can officially say that Ontario has quickly become a HOT BED for Country Music Festivals for 2016 in Canada. Seriously its unreal… With nearly 13.8 Million people in Ontario and lets say you take 3% of that population that are ticket buying country music fans. You are looking at just over 380,000 people are looking to buy tickets into an event this summer. The big question is, which one or two are they going to be spending their hard earned cash on?
Wayhome 2016 Secret Revealed?
So.. As I was browsing the World Wide Web tonight and came across something rather odd when I was googling Wayhome 2016…Now I know last year Wayhome had a pretty cool cryptic way of letting people know about the festival. Is this possibly a way they are leaking there own headliner, or maybe just a hint?
Now take a closer look…at the //Young Money, Cash Money. Now I have been so deep in the country world the last couple years but I do know that is the name of Lil’ Wayne’s company that just so happens to have Drake under its banner.
So….Could Drake and Lil’Wayne be headed to Wayhome 2016? Things have been quiet so heck why not stir the pot and start putting our thinking caps on to who is going to rock the Wayhome stages in 2016. What do you think? Are we reaching? Or do you think this has any merit? Let us know what you think.
Don’t be shy and follow us on Twitter – @soundcheckblg – @CoreyKelly76
Is the Home Town boy (Drake) coming home to play this summers Wayhome 2016?
Is Lil’ Wayne headed to Burls Creek in 2016 for Wayhome?
Excited for Boots and Hearts?
Over the last couple weeks we have been treated to some pretty major announcements from the folks at Republic Live regarding the line up for the 5th Anniversary of Canada’s LARGEST outdoor country music festival, Boots and Hearts.
Jess Moskaluke Rocks KX Country
This past Thursday night Jess Moskaluke blew the doors off the Phoenix. Well, what was left of them anyway.
Autumn Hill & Friends in Ontario
It was late November and Autumn Hill, Jason Benoit and River Town Saints played four shows on a quick little jaunt across Ontario with the first stop in Ottawa then off to Hamilton, Kitchener and London to close things out. Four fantastic nights of music. We were made it to three of the shows and well we all agreed that all were fantastic.
