March 15 - Dave Borins
A fixture on the Toronto music scene, Dave Borins arrives at the Rose and Kettle on Thursday March 15.
He's probably played well over 300 concerts in the last four years, that sort of experience shows. There have been two recordings — a full-length one from 2007, Songs of Sense and Colour, and a gutsy EP The Lucky Ones recorded in 2009 — and these records, in turn, spawned no less than half a dozen tours, touching almost every part of Canada. As one arts magazine writer put it: "His voice is the kind you could lean against and trust to lead you home on a long walk from the pub in the night."
Find out more about Dave at http://www.daveborins.com/
March 22 - “Come to a Union Meeting: Protest Songs of the 30s and 40s” Leo Feinstein and Friends
One of our stalwart regulars and long-term visitor from “the Boston States”, Leo Feinstein will be bringing a special treat to us on March 22.
Protest Songs of the 30s and 40s: Come to a Union Meeting, from a time when life and death battles were fought for decent wages and working conditions. Union songs were "organizing tools and weapons" (Joe Hill), and everyone joined in the chorus'. The second set will feature other protest songs of the era: anti-jim crow, anti-war, anti-McCarthy. Lots of sing-alongs.
A fixture on the Toronto music scene, Dave Borins arrives at the Rose and Kettle on Thursday March 15.
He's probably played well over 300 concerts in the last four years, that sort of experience shows. There have been two recordings — a full-length one from 2007, Songs of Sense and Colour, and a gutsy EP The Lucky Ones recorded in 2009 — and these records, in turn, spawned no less than half a dozen tours, touching almost every part of Canada. As one arts magazine writer put it: "His voice is the kind you could lean against and trust to lead you home on a long walk from the pub in the night."
Life in what is sometimes called the music business — and "business" should be in quotation marks — has never been easy. But Dave Borins relishes the challenges of the digital age, the new ways of delivering recorded music to fans, and the fact that you make fans today one by one by one… So he leads the band, writes the songs, handles the vocals, organizes the recording sessions, books the tours, drives the van.
Find out more about Dave at http://www.daveborins.com/
March 22 - “Come to a Union Meeting: Protest Songs of the 30s and 40s” Leo Feinstein and Friends
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| Ernest Laidlaw |
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| Adele Megann |
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| Margo Carruthers |
Leo Feinstein grew up singing most of these songs, starting in 1950. He met union organizers, victims of McCarthyism, early peace activists, and civil rights workers. You will get an intimate picture, through song and anecdotes, of these turbulent and formative decades, and of what motivated those activists.
Joining Leo for this great evening of music and history will be other Rose and Kettle regulars Margo Carruthers, Ernest Laidlaw and Adele Megann
This winter's performers:
Intriguing Instrument Night - March 1
Karen Robinson - Februrary 23
Karen’s music website is:
http://www.robinsong.ca/
The Worry Birds - February 16
To say we were impressed by this wonderful trio of Singer/Songwriter Zach Smith, amazing bass player Adelle Meagher and fiddle player Breagh MacDonald would be an understatement. This kind of music performed by this kind of performers is what the Rose and Kettle Sessions is all about.
Many original tunes and a few cover pieces done in their unique style gave us something to remember.
Here are two videos of Zach Smith and the Worry Birds performng original tunes "Imperfect" and "Circle".
Find out more at: http://www.theworrybirds.com/
Dylan Cormier - Feb 9
Our February 9 session featured a ew face to our stage. Dylan Cormier is an acoustic musician based in Bridgewater Nova Scotia. Now nineteen years old, he took up the guitar six years ago. He became addicted and knew that music was what he wanted to do with his life. Dylan prefers to play solo, in the style of the old blues men and folk performers, keeping the focus on the meaning of the music.
Find out more on Dylan at: http://www.bigdjindustriez.tk/
Brooke Miller -Feb. 2
Brooke Miller again returned to our stage on February 2 to warm up a cold winter evening. Brooke is on the rise to become a major recording artist and world-reknown singer/songriter. Her current self-title new release is gaining rave reviews all over the world. She has another upcoming yet to be titled album recorded in Germany which is also destined to add fuel to her rocketing career.
In this video from her concert session, Brooke performs an acoustic version of her tune "Canonball" which has been getting lots of airplay as a single from her current new release. The guitar Brooke is playing is a masterpiece itself. It is a hand-built fan-fret G4.2 (Sapele/Lutz) from one of the world's finest luthiers Michael Greenfield in Montreal. To find out more about these guitars, visit http://www.greenfieldguitars.com/.
Find out all about Brooke and her new ventures at: http://www.brookemiller.ca/
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