Brett Kissel announces Ice, Snow and 30 Below Tour

18-Date Tour Begins January 12 Proceeds From Sales of New Single ‘I Didn’t Fall in Love With Your Hair’ to be Donated to  Canadian Cancer Society and Matched by W. Brett Wilson  Canada’s Walk of Fame to Award Brett with 2016 Allan Slaight Honour on October 6 JUNO and CCMA-Award winning country singer Brett Kissel […]

Marianas Trench and the Last Crusade set to invade Canada this fall!

OTTAWA, ON – Multi-Platinum selling progressive pop band Marianas Trench have announced their second headlining tour in Canada this year, “Marianas Trench and the Last Crusade,”which kicks off on November 1st in Prince George, BC at CN Centre. VIP tickets will be available on Wednesday, September 7th at 10am local time. General admission tickets will […]

Tim Hicks Throws It Down In Bala

In what has been an amazingly busy week of concert and festival coverage here at Sound Check Entertainment, we kept the crazy going by flying up Highway 400 to Muskoka on Saturday night. Tim Hicks returned to The KEE to Bala for his annual Summer Throwdown and man, it was CRAZY! This was a SOLD […]

On this day in 2011 Sound Check Entertainment was born!

It’s hard to believe that it’s really only been 5 years since I first put pen to paper (so to speak) to write the first ever post for Sound Check Entertainment. Back then it was called the Hoedown Blogger and the platform was under the banner of the Ottawa Citizen but had it not been […]

#SOM2016 KICK OFF

So this past weekend marked the start of the Sound of Music Festival with their 2nd Annual Kick Off Party.  The weather was hot, the beer was cold and the fans came out to support an amazing day of Rock & Roll.

I Mother Earth & Edwin Rock the Phoenix

So, I didn’t really want to say I Mother Earth with Edwin as my headline because well, I Mother Earth isn’t I Mother Earth without him in my personal opinion.  Now that that is out of the way lets talk Reunion show #1 held at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in downtown Toronto on Friday June […]

Six String Circus Doesn’t Clown Around in Oshawa…

Jason Aldean brought his Six String Circus Tour to Ontario this weekend.  Hands down one of the best tours this spring with the likes of Big Machine recording artists Thomas Rhett & A Thousand Horses in tow.  

No Evil Ways, Santana was Pure Magic!

What an amazing treat it was Friday night to take in the Santana show at Casino Rama. We’re talking about one of music’s icons, and premiere guitarists.  I felt very fortunate to have had the opportunity to photograph and review this performance.  Right from the opening bars of Soul Sacrifice, we were all captivated by […]