2016:
April: I was part of a workshop for the new musical DANCER! Written by the incredible Marek Norman and amazing Jim Betts, with super-talent Rick Fox as Music Supervisor.
May: I re-united with my friends from Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony for their Pops Concert Extravaganza, playing drum kit and percussion.
June: I took part in the APTN TV show Guilt Free Zone, performing with London ON country music superstar Genevieve Fisher!
July: I will be freelancing with Yeager, The Missing Links, The Geoff Masse Band, Chris Murphy, Doug Varty, The Journeymen of Soul.
Also in July: I will be subbing for Mamma Mia in Penetang ON for the Drayton Theatre Group.
And I will be recording the score for The Hypochondriac for the Stratford Festival in July, music by Bert Carriere, Order of Canada!
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I am playing percussion for Grey Gardens; (a musical) at the Berkeley Street Theatre in Toronto in February.
Jammin' with Yeager and Iain at the Charles Dickens in Woodstock Ontario Feb. 6
Huge St. Patrick's Day party at the Agri-Plex in London Ontario on March 12, I will be there with Doug Varty!
Gigs in Toronto with the amazingly talented Rick Miller- actor, comedian, musician April 22, 23.
2015:
I have recorded an album with Randy Bachman (in May 2014) with release on True North Records April 14 2015! The album includes guest guitar solo spots by Peter Frampton, Neil Young, Jeff Healey (yes!!), Joe Bonamassa, Robert Randolph and more! The band is brand new- me and Bachman and bass player, Anna Ruddick. The album sounds like 1968 Who and Cream and Hendrix...Touring the world in 2015...
With Bachman:
April... touring begins.
Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Victoria BC, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon.... CD RELEASE in Toronto April 14 at the Virgin Mod Club and then Montreal on the 15th, then Connecticut and New York City on the 24th and 25th!
May....San Juan Capistrano LA May 28, Beverly Hills CA May 30, playing with Joe Bonamassa.
CANADIAN DATES
Ottawa Blues Fest -July 19
Vancouver- July 29
Kitchener Blues Fest -August 7
RIDGEVILLE Ontario- Sept. 6
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Other:
Playing fanfares for Hamlet at the Stratford Festival, May- October. Also recorded soundtrack for Hamlet with composer Steven Page of the BareNaked Ladies. Opening Night- May 25 7:30pm.
Playing percussion in the orchestra for Roger Hodgson (Supertramp) Nov. 20, 21 at Casino Rama
2014:
January: Recorded "EVANGELINE" the musical by Ted Dykstra in Toronto at Canterbury Studios with Grammy Nominated Producer/ Engineer Jeremy Darby (Sara Bareilles) and Musical Director Bob Foster- orchestral arrangements by Rick Fox.
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Jeans n' Classics in Big Spring Texas March 29 2014
The Music of QUEEN
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Tim Tyler at the Dominion House in Stratford Ontario Apr. 4, 5th 2014.
May 2014: Recorded an album with a great guitar legend, with other guitar legends doing guest spots. Still a secret for a short time longer, details to be released by record company soon! Album to be released in March 2015...
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June - Aug. 2014 Played percussion for Les Miserables with Drayton Theatre Group in Cambridge and Grand Bend Ontario... what a percussion book!
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April-Oct. 2014 Played fanfares for King Lear, Midsummer Night's Dream and the Beaux's Stratagem at the Stratford Festival of Canada
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