Category Archives: Concert Reviews

Saturday June 25th, Serena Ryder headlined the Ottawa Dragonboat Festival at Mooney’s Bay. The concerts at the festival are free events, making for a great way to entertain the whole family without breaking the bank. It was a great show by one of Canada’s greatest singers!

Our Lady Peace performed recently, on June 24th, 2022 at Massey Hall, Toronto, for The Wonderful Future Tour. This tour is meant to show off this new technology they call Holograms, while also discussing different aspects of the future and technology.

A long awaited date finally arrived and The Glorious Sons rocked Edmonton on their “Unfinished Business” tour recently

Cette année, le Festival Country de Lotbinière a eu l’excellente idée d’offrir des spectacles gratuits en après-midi, mettant en vedette des artistes du Québec. La programmation a donc pratiquement doublé; les spectateurs étaient ravis de l’ajout et les artistes ont été enchantés de l’accueil qu’ils ont reçu. Même la pluie s’est faite clémente pendant ces spectacles.

Rain, rain and more rain was the story of the day on Saturday at Festival Country Lotbinière. Of course much of the area near the front of the stage, including our media pit, had turned into mud by the end of the show on Friday…by yesterday it was more like quick sand that fed on an endless supply of shoes, boots and the occasional small child (just kidding no children were eaten by the mud monster at this festival). Did anyone care? No because the music made us all forget that we were slowly sinking up to our knees in mud.

We’re back to our regularly scheduled weekend less than a year since the last edition of Festival Country de Lotbinière and, once again, festival organizers were dealt with a forecast of rain and gloom…in other words…perfect weather for an all Canadian lineup for a country festival.

I first saw Amanda, Tyler and Steve, aka the Wilkinson’s, live 23 years ago this summer at the North Bay Heritage Festival. We were all kids back then, especially so for Amanda and Tyler. The trio has gone through a number of iterations over the years including a run as duo, Small Town Pistols featuring just Amanda and Tyler, as well as a solo run for Amanda but they always seem to find their way back to the stage as a family and when they do it’s nothing short of magic and last night was no exception.

USS (Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker) came through Edmonton on June 3^rd, 2022, and played their last show at Midway in part of their “Final FINAL Freakquency Tour”. I was lucky enough to shoot them when they played Together Again in the summer of 2021; I was not going to miss a chance to photograph them a second time.

Progressive rock lovers of all ages congregated at Vancouver’s Orpheum Theatre  on Sunday evening to see prolific funksters, Primus.

While seeing Les Claypool is enough to get anybody’s blood pumping, Sunday’s spectacle was particularly important for those who are fans of Canadian prog-rock pioneers, Rush. 

Not many may see the connection between these two legendary bands, but if you listen close enough you can find the undeniable similarities and the immense influence on had on the other. This is why Claypool felt it fitting to tour in tribute to his 70’s predecessors, performing his meticulously practiced renditions of Rush’s quintessential album A Farewell To Kings

Primus makes a stop in Edmonton on their “Tribute To Kings” tour, featuring the band covering Rush’s classic 1977 album “A Farewell To Kings” in it’s entirety.