News Roundup (Stingray Blues Charts, Global Music Awards, Steve Rivers, Dark Mean)

Cool Music Toons!

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News

Local

• Veteran Canadian Radio Host Holger Petersen Releases Second Book of Musical Conversations
• Local Christmas Album ft Ginger St. James, Neil MacNaughton, Leslie Hudson & more)
• David Gillis Wins Canadian Folk Music Award for Producing Corin Raymond Album
• New Dave Pomfret CD

Canada

• Talkin' Blues Podcast: Shakura S'Aida Interviews Host
• Robbie Robertson in Latest Issue of Mojo Magazine

World

• Interesting Facts About MTV Unplugged

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Stingray Blues Music Charts November 2016

Click above for complete list

Top 10

1. Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne: Jumpin' and Boppin'
2. Big Dave McLean: Better the Devil You Know
3. JW-Jones: High Temperature
4. Tami Neilson: Don't Be Afraid
5. Dawn Tyler Watson: Jawbreaker
6. Steve Dawson: Solid States and Loose Ends
7. RootBone: The Long Road Home
8. Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley: Blues Country
9. Colin James: Blue Highways
10. Petunia and The Vipers: Dead Bird On The Highway

More local artists on the chart: 

12. Paul Reddick: Ride The One (Produced and guitar by Colin Cripps)

21. MonkeyJunk: Time To Roll (songs written by Tom Wilson)

63. Harmonica Shah: If You Live To Get Old, You Will Understand (ft Jack de Keyzer)

81. Whitehorse: Pretty Thing

85. The Smoke Wagon Blues Band: Cigar Store

101. Dylan Wickens and the Grand Naturals: Hi Lo-Fi

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2016 Global Music Award Winners

Gold Medal Winners

• Snaggle (Originality/Creativity) - Canada
  
  
  
  
  Video above courtesy of Snaggle
• Mohammed Haddad (Composition/Composer) - Bahrain
• Ioanna and Areti Spanomarkou (Best of Show) - Greece
• Jeff Jarvis, Bob Cole Conservatory Concert Jazz Orchestra (Jazz) - USA
• Yasa Poletaeva and Darren Matias, Contrast Duo (Classical Duo) - USA
• Giancarlo Castro D’Addona (Original Score) - Venezuela
• Patricia Martinez (Composition/Composer) - Argentina
• Francesco Traversi (Compostion/Composer) - Italy
• Jeff Broadbent (Composer - Game Music, Original Score) - USA

Canadian Silver Medal Winners

• Roger Chong (Jazz)
• Roger Scannura (Latin Flamenco)
• Vandana Vishwas (World Music, Female Vocalist)

Canadian Bronze Medal Winners

• Catherine Sarah Manna (Pop)
• Hutchinson Andrew Trio (Singer/Songwriter)

Links: Global Music Awards, More GMA Stories

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The Adventures of Trebleclef, the Hamilton Blues Lovers Monkey

Trebleclef is resting up. He'll be back next week.

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Featured Videos 

Links: Steve Rivers, More Steve Rivers Stories, Video above courtesy of Steve Rivers

Links: Dark Mean, More Dark Mean Stories, , Video above courtesy of Dark Mean

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