Happy St. Patrick's Day! Reel Celts, Shananigans, Eclectic Revival, Great Big Sea

Links: The Reel Celts, Video above courtesy of Nonie Thompson



Links: Shananigans. More Shananigans Stories, Video above courtesy of ShananigansBand



Links: Eclectic Revival, More Eclectic Revival Stories, Video above courtesy of Chris McLeod




Links: Great Big Sea, More Great Big Sea Stories, Video above courtesy of CTCeltics

Click here for more St. Patrick's Day videos

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News Roundup (Awards, Ian Andrews, The Dukes, Nonie Thompson)

Buffy-Sainte Marie Wins Polaris Music Prize

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News

Local

• Barbershop Podcast w Ian Andrews and the Smokin' Scoundrels
  
  
  
  Links:  Ian Andrews, More Ian Andrews Stories, Video above courtesy of Barber Shop Podcast
• Local Canadian Folk Music Award Nominations
• Smoke Wagon Blues Band and Jay Pollmann Heading to International Blues Challenge
• Vote for Local Musicians at the Spec Readers' Awards
• Niagara Music Award Nominations

Canada

• Buffy-Sainte Marie Wins Polaris Music Prize
• 2015 Emerging Artist Music Mentorship Program Winners
• 2015 Western Canadian Music Award Winners

World

• Americana Award Winners and Honours
• Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater Wins Blues Blast Lifetime Achievement Award
• Passings: Peggy "Lady Bo" Jones (Bo Diddley sidewoman)

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The Adventures of Trebleclef, the Hamilton Blues Lovers Monkey

Trebleclef went to the Saturday Sermon Blues Matinee featuring the James Anthony  Band w special guest Andre Bisson

Andre's always willing to sign a CD for a fan

James Anthony

Click here for more pictures from the event.

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Recently Added

Our Performer List

• The Dukes
  
  
  
  Video above courtesy of The Dukes
  

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Birthdays

Thu, Sept 24

• Johnny Mac Slater

Sun, Sept 27

• Mike Branton
• Tom Finochio
• Kim Koren
• Chad Pilon
• Lori Yates

Mon, Sept 28

• Cragg Bender (Burnin' Ethyl)
• Krysta Lee
• Michael Zane

Wed, Sept 30

• Greg Brisco
• Steve Goldberger
• Lionel Lodge

Thu, Oct 1

• Neil Nickafor
• Jon Richardson (Retro Party Groove) Birthday
• Ryan Vivian

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Featured Video

Links: Nonie Thompson, More Nonie Thompson Stories, Video above courtesy of SimVid

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News Roundup (Greg Quill, Jerry Johnson, Nonie Crete)

Local

• Lindy Vopnfjord's Hearing Voices on Criminal Minds

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Canada

• Roots musician and Toronto Star columnist, Greg Quill Passes
• May issue of Maple Blues

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World

• Please note that we won't be posting individual podcasts anymore.  We will soon have a Podcast section on the right side of the blog (near the bottom)

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Blasts From The Past 

• 2009: Blues Music Award Winners
• 2010: Blues News Bites w videos by Patrick Lawton, Dan Medakovic, Mary Simon
• 2011: Videos: Famous Framus@Waltz
• 2012: News Roundup w Steve Strongman, Harlan Pepper, Shari and Jonny

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Featured Videos 



Links: Jerry Johnson , More Jerry Johnson Stories, Video courtesy of Dave Parry 



Link: Nonie Crete, More Nonie Crete Stories, Video courtesy of Nonie Crete

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Nonie Crete YouTube Videos

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Above two videos courtesy of Alimarin

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