Live Music Is A Once In A Lifetime Experience
Élisabeth Pion is from Canada, but you’d never know it if you glanced through her resume: training in Italy AND the UK AND Montreal, and with a British phone prefix when we finally connect. MUSICAlive!, with an international subject matter that keeps us guessing what accent we will hear next, left it up to discovery: which is that this charming jewel is Quebecois …
Fruteland Jackson is practically unstoppable, and that’s a good thing. Because not only is he a font of wisdom regarding the depth and history of the American Blues, he also writes and plays a pretty good ragtime riff, too. …
Johnathon May brings me my Cafe Mocha and raisin bran muffin while I set up the recording device for our interview in the National Music Centre coffeeshop. Not only does it seem like an appropriate place for such interviews (having been used to talk to Rielle most recently, amongst others …
After being thoroughly delighted/blown away by BB Bomb at this year’s Sled Island closing pig roast, MUSICAlive! contacted the band from Taiwan to arrange an interview. As that country is 14 hours ahead of Calgary, and as the lead Singer/songwriter/guitarist felt more comfortable with her written English …
After Rose and MUSICAlive! get through the naming of guitars and cats and other home furnishings (Shakespearean & Marvel Universe, to be exact), we finally settle down to actually talking about MUSIC (sometimes our conversations have to be reined in like a running mare who’s escaped from the pen). The good news is, to maintain the metaphor, this isn’t the songwriter’s first rodeo! …
MUSICAlive! starts our conversation with Laura Hickli with the 2 of us giggling like idiots, which is rather strange given the somber topics she is addressing in the dark secrets EP: near death occurrences, questioning relevance and purpose. You know, lighthearted stuff! …
