Vote for the 2021 Hamilton Spectator Readers' Choice Awards (Deadline is Sept 19)

Below is a complete list of music-related nominees. Please click the picture above for the complete listings. 

Local Musician or Band

• Back Road Bourbon
• Basement Revolver
• Big Johnny Blue
• Cameron Michael Caton (COVID Elvis)
• Darcy Feaver
• Laura Cole
• Steve Oros
• The Dunlop Brothers
• The McFlys
• Tim Gibbons

Live Entertainment Facility

• Bobbie's Bar & Grill
• Drury Lane Theatre Productions Inc.
• FirstOntario Centre
• FirstOntario Concert Hall
• Hamilton Theatre Inc.
• Levity Comedy Lounge
• Stonewalls Pub
• The Cat 'N Fiddle
• The Staircase Cafe and Theatre
• Theatre Aquarius
• Tracie's Place Restaurant and Karaoke

Live Music Bar / Lounge

• Coach & Lantern
• Come By Chance
• Endzone Bar & Grill
• Galley Pump
• Lazy Flamingo
• Stonewalls Pub
• The Casbah
• The Cat 'N Fiddle
• The Corktown
• The Masque Wine Bar
• The Powerhouse
• Tracie's Place Restaurant and Karaoke

Live Jazz Club

• Artword Artbar
• Doors Metal Joint and Taco Bar
• Mulberry Street Coffee House
• The Augusta House
• The Cat 'N Fiddle
• The Corktown
• The Gasworks
• The Masque Wine Bar
• The Winking Judge
• Zyla's

Local Festival

• Brott Music Festival
• Burlington Sound Of Music
• Dundas Cactus Festival
• Festival of Friends
• Hamilton Fringe Festival
• Hexploitation Film Festival
• It's Your Festival
• Locke Street Festival
• Supercrawl
• Winona Peach Festival

Radio Station

• 101.5 The Hawk
• 900 CHML
• 92.9 The Grand
• 93.5 Jukasa Radio
• Arise Christian Radio AM1380
• Boom 97.3
• Bounce 102.9
• CBC Radio
• Energy 95.3
• Hot Country 93.9
• KX 94.7 New Country

Best Music Instruction

• Hilltop Music Academy
• Intune Music Academy
• Joan Heels' Vocal Plus Studio
• Long & McQuade - Hamilton
• Mr. Ben's Open Door Music
• Paula French Entertainment
• Picks and Sticks ONE OF OUR SPONSORS!
• Progressive Music Studio
• Studio E Inc
• Tabone Academy of Music

Music Instructor

• Adam Scott
• Big Johnny Blue
• Corey Pearce (Impact Percussion)
• Dawn Martens (Buchanan Park Elementary School)
• Dr. Joan B. Heels
• Matty Simpson (Picks and Sticks) ONE OF OUR SPONSORS!
• Paula French
• Paula Tessaro (Tabone Academy of Music)
• Rachel Moroz (Long & McQuade - Burlington)
• Rosemary Hale-Tawse (Long & McQuade - Hamilton)
• Scott Marsh (Intune Music Academy)

Musical Instruments Store

• All Star Music Canada
• Birchway Sound
• Crash Landing Music Store
• Long & McQuade - Hamilton
• M Gear Design
• M.E.S Music Equipment Sales Ltd
• Mountain Music
• Picks and Sticks ONE OF OUR SPONSORS!
• The Acoustic Room
• Tundra Music

Recording Studio

• ARC Recording Studio
• B Town Sound
• Catherine North Studios
• Downtown Sound Recording Studios
• Grant Avenue Studio
• Halo Recording, Rehearsals and Music Lessons.
• Jordan Moore Audio
• Jukasa Media Group
• Pine Street Studio
• Q.E.D. Media
• Studio 410 Sound Productions

As a favour, we'd also like to ask you to vote for:

• St. Charles Adult & Continuing Education Centres (Lou, our blogger's workplace) for Best Adult Education 
• Lou's cousin Katrina Pereira (Maison Fritz Salon & Spa Stoney Creek) for Best Hairstylist/Barber. THANKS

Links: Readers' Choice Awards, More Spec Readers' Choice Awards Stories

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News Roundup (Remembering Rick Bissell, Timid the Brave, Arkells, More)

Former Simply Saucer Manager Rick Bissell Passes

Facebook comments from Edgar Breau (Simply Saucer)

Rick was the 'discoverer' of Simply Saucer in 1974, our first manager. He set up the Master Sound studio sessions with the Lanois Brothers that ultimately became side one of Cyborgs Revisited. Husband of his beloved and beautiful Monique, father of Shawn.

Originally from Montreal, Rick came to Hamilton and set up one of the first import record stores here, Hermandad Records in the Lister Block in the early 1970's. Some of you record collectors out there will remember the cool imports you could buy at the store. He was a communications consultant for Bell and AT&T, brought his family with him to Saudia Arabia for a time where he did consulting work there. 

Well there's much more to tell about our friend but tonight's the time to mourn the passing of our cherished friend, Rick. May he rest in peace.

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News

Local

• Marz Garage Episode w Timid, the Brave
  
  
  
  Links: Timid the Brave, More Marz Garage Podcasts, Video above courtesy of Marz Homes
  
  
• New Arkells Single
  
  
  
  Links: Arkells, More Arkells Stories, Video above courtesy of Arkells Music
  
  
• Inside Halton Story on James Anthony
• Steve Rivers New Single Available
• Peter Shaw Passes
• Ronnie Lodge (Rockets) Passes

Spectator Stories

• Basement Revolver
• Guitar by the Hamilton Sign
• Dundas Valley Orchestra Celebrates 40 Years
• Aretha Franklin's Viewing
• Pictures from the Hamilton Deep Purple/Judas Priest Show
• Did Neil Young and Daryl Hannah Get Married?

Canada

• Fiddle Legend Ned Landry Passes
• JW-Jones to Release 1st Live Album

Passings

• Lazy Lester
• Ed King (ex-Skynyrd Guitarist)

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Adventure of Trebleclef, the Music-Loving Monkey

Trebleclef saw his friends Trickbag at the Chicken and Corn Roast at the Brant Naval Veterans Association. He had tons of fun.

Click to see more pictures from the event.

MORE NEWS ROUNDUPS

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