BLUESOUL: The long-awaited Blues Album by Canada’s King of Roots Music and Ottawa’s own Terry Gillespie played at the NAC last night.
Terry Gillespie is considered a forefather of the cultural dissemination of American music into Canada. Today his voice is frequently compared to Van Morrison and Bob Dylan while his guitar is reminiscent of Mark Knopfler. Richard Ludmerer, Vice-President, New York Blues and Jazz Society describes Gillespie’s music: ” Terry Gillespie possesses a magic that seems to occur right in the middle of each song. It’s what causes the hairs to rise on the back of your neck.”
Terry was accompanied by seasoned musicians Lyndell Montgomery and Wayne Stoute with special guest Peter Measroch formerly of The Luther Allison Band on piano.
Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick and his 12 string bass guitar featured in Vintage Guitar Magazine this month.
This photo was taken seconds before the stage collapsed at Ottawa Bluesfest in July of 2011.
Montreal based Boogie Wonder Band brought disco music to the masses this weekend at the Casino du Lac-Leamy.
With a tight, energetic and well choreographed stage show, complete with lasers and exotic lighting, the 10 piece group had the crowd on it’s feet from the very first note and they boogied on down the entire night.
With hits such as “I Will Survive,” “I Love the Night Life,” “We are Family,” “Get Down Tonight,” “Raining Men,” “Stayin’ Alive,” “Dancing Queen,” “YMCA,” “Celebration” and “Disco Inferno” they definitely brought back the 70′s in grand style!
Taryn, an Ottawa professional makeup artist, was an absolute pleasure to work with yesterday.
With her new website about to go live, a few headshot and portrait photographs of this stunning beauty were in order.
by Jean Labelle