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micro-rodney news
Date: April 22, 2010
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Welcome to Spring Edition of micro-rodney news. Big and sometimes *bold* news from your most trusted news source.
Fresh from touring his *Big Lonely Show with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra* and voted "*A. F. of M. Local 591’s Musician of the Year* " Rodney Brown returns to the road this May with his *Tour to Quebec*. The tour will see him venture along Superior’s North Shore to Lake Nipissing and along the Ottawa for a fund raising performance on Parliament Hill before embarking on his trek to Quebec’s Eastern Townships to perform for the Richmond Historical Society and back home via Toronto’s Free Times Cafe.
This last decade has seen Rodney create three outstanding albums. His latest effort North Land [2009] follows the success of his highly acclaimed, Big Lonely CD and spans a thirty-year career of songwriting, performing and recording.
Here is my tour itinerary. Feel free to invite friends to these gigs!
*Tour to Quebec *
*May 7 Friday - Serendipity Cafe - Rossport On.* - 8:00 pm
For reservations call (807) 824-2890 or email Roger and Mary serendipity@renegadeisp.com
*May 8 Saturday - Sault Ste. Marie On. - House Concert* - 8:00 pm
For reservations call 705 256-7825 cheryl.montgomery@shaw.ca
*May 9 Sunday - North Bay On. - St. Andrew’s Church* - 8:00 pm
Fundraiser for North Bay Peace Alliance northwatch@onlink.net
*May 10 Monday- North Bay School Concerts
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*May 11 Tuesday - North Bay and Mattawa School Concerts*
*May 13 Thursday - Ottawa On. - On the Hill *
Fundraiser for Thunder Bay’s Community Arts and Heritage Education Project
Parliament Bld. West Block, top floor- Glenn Thibeault’s Hallway! (after QP).
www.cahep.ca pcain@fort-frances.com
*May 14 Friday - Chelsea PQ - Tamblyn House * - 8:00 pm
*May 15 Saturday - Melbourne* *PQ* - 8:00 pm
Melbourne Township Town Hall
1257, route 243, Melbourne Township
Ulverton Folk/Richmond Historical Society
Info: Julie Miller 819-826-5427 or Nick Fonda 819-826-2534
*May 16/17 Sunday - Montreal PQ - Quest for McGillivray*
Researching my hometown’s namesake [Fort William] in Old Montreal.
I may have a gig in a Montreal club. [keep you posted]
*May 20 Thursday - Toronto On. - Free Times Cafe*
call 416-967-1078 for reservations.
www.freetimescafe.com
Historic Toronto music venue with great food!
*May 22 Saturday Tottenham On. - House Concert
*for info david.zub@netscape.ca
Press Release from Quebec’s Eastern Townships
The Richmond County Historical Society together with the Ulverton Folk Concert Series are pleased to welcome Thunder Bay-based singer-songwriter Rodney Brown to the Townships for a very first time. And why are they teaming up to present this special event? Because Rodney Brown is a distinctive artist with a unique talent for bringing Canadian history, especially the stories of the north, to life.
With a career spanning over 30 years of songwriting, performing and recording, Rodney Brown was part of the first wave of Canadian singer-songwriters to emerge in the 70’s, a movement that included Stan Rogers, Murray McLauchlan and Bruce Cockburn. Rodney toured the country from one end to the other, releasing his first album, “Freedom in Me”, in 1977, and a second one not long after. His music also found a following in the States, as well as in Japan. In the mid-80’s, wanting to be home to raise his family, he stopped touring and discovered a passion for working with children and in schools. During this time he released several albums for kids.
In 2001 he made his return to the folk festival circuit and recorded “Into the Woods”, an album lauded by critics and concert-goers alike. There is a strong sense of place in Rodney Brown’s songwriting, and around this time he began researching the stories of his hometown’s namesake, William McGillivray, to be drawn ever deeper into stories of the early days of the fur trade. This gave rise to the album “The Big Lonely” (2004) which brought him to international recognition after a performance on Stuart McLean’s “Vinyl Café”. By 2008 Rodney’s scope had widened even further and he released “North Land”, a finely crafted collection of songs offering sharp images of the north and its history, with songs written from the perspective of country wives, bands of first nations, aboriginal prophets, visionary fur traders, and restless explorers.
Rodney is also deeply involved in his community and an advocate for many causes from the environment to regional development to preserving the CBC.
This will be Rodney Brown’s first visit to the Townships; and his concert will be an opportunity not only to discover the work of a talented songwriter, but also to open a window on the passionate history of an expansive and young country with a breathtaking landscape, by the way of an artist’s songs, evocative of the common threads and themes shared by us all.
Have a wonderful spring!
Rodney
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