![RANDY VAIL AND NEPHEW BRENT MASON HAVE NEW RELEASES
He’s Tiny the Christmas Mouse/ He helps old Santa Claus/
Tiny The Christmas Mouse
He puts the ribbon on the gifts/ With his little paws.
In my lifetime I’ve witnessed many children’s Christmas hits explode on Yuletide radio… Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Frosty The Snowman, [...]](http://gerrytaylor.thedrawlyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/MasonBAND2010-640x250.jpg "NEW CDS")
![GOLD RECORD HIT MAKER BEN WEATHERBY DIES IN MIRAMICHI
A great Canadian singer, songwriter, recording artist and sound engineer Ben Weatherby died Tuesday night at his residence in the Miramichi
Born in Truro, N.S., Ben spent two decades in Toronto with ARC Records, starting in the 1960′s when that label had rack displays in just about every [...]](http://gerrytaylor.thedrawlyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/DSC01306-640x250.jpg)
![SYLVIA TYSON ENTERTAINS WITH CONVERSATION AND SONG AT IMPERIAL
‘It seems like only yesterday’ is such an over used phase.
Yet it was 1961 that I bought the first self-titled Ian & Sylvia Tyson long play recording which featured a rare Irish song Pride of Petrovar. That was 50 years ago. But it seems like just [...]](http://gerrytaylor.thedrawlyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/sylvia-tyson-01-640x250.jpg "Sylvia Tyson")
![Randy Vail
LYONS AND VAIL TONIGHT AT EX, N.B. COUNTRY HALL OF FAME FRIDAY
It seemed to many local country fans that when Randy Vail and Steve Lyons split and the Lost Highway band subsequently disappeared an era had ended.
It was hoped both of them and the original Lost Highway band could be brought together [...]](http://gerrytaylor.thedrawlyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/RickRussell11closeup-195x110.jpg "Saint John Exhibition TONIGHT, Sept. 1, 2011")
![BEFORE MAST AT MARTELLO TOWER, MAICHER AT GRAND MANAN FEST
It’s a Fab Forts Weekend at Carleton Martello Tower, Saint John West this weekend.
Saturday you can enjoy a concert by the high energy and highly entertaining Before The Mast nine-voice men’s sea shanty chorus 2 to 3 p.m. and eat ice cream from [...]](http://gerrytaylor.thedrawlyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Carlypressphoto2-195x110.jpg "Mast at Martell Saint John, Grand Manan Folk Festival")
![ALDEN, JOHNNY, JUNE, RICHARD AND PRINCE CHARLES
There was a sensational cover image on the Telegraph-Journal’s Salon section Saturday, April 16.
Alden Nowlan, Johnny Cash, June Carter, Richard Hatfield and a lady whom I believe was Progressive Conservative organizer Libby Burnham. Richard Hatfield was then New Brunswick’s premier.
The photo was taken in 1975 during a concert [...]](http://gerrytaylor.thedrawlyn.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "another look at Alden Nowlan")
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![CLOSEST TO THE REAL ELVIS, THANE DUNN AT THE IMPERIAL JAN. 7
I talked last week with a traveller who’d recently seen a concert where the hologram of a vocalist interacted with a live band on a stage. So some day soon actual holograms of ‘The King’ Elvis Presley may be singing with bands and orchestras [...]](http://gerrytaylor.thedrawlyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ElvisThaneDunn-640x250.jpg "cash rasied from drawings sold go to Appleby Cancer Fund")
cash rasied from drawings sold go to Appleby Cancer Fund
CLOSEST TO THE REAL ELVIS, THANE DUNN AT THE IMPERIAL JAN. 7
I talked last week with a traveller who’d recently seen a concert where the hologram of a vocalist interacted with a live band on a stage. So some day soon actual holograms of ‘The King’ Elvis Presley may be singing with bands and orchestras [...]
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LYONS AND VAIL TONIGHT AT EX, N.B. COUNTRY HALL OF FAME FRIDAY
It seemed to many local country fans that when Randy Vail and Steve Lyons split and the Lost Highway band subsequently disappeared an era had ended.
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Mast at Martell Saint John, Grand Manan Folk Festival
BEFORE MAST AT MARTELLO TOWER, MAICHER AT GRAND MANAN FEST
It’s a Fab Forts Weekend at Carleton Martello Tower, Saint John West this weekend.
Saturday you can enjoy a concert by the high energy and highly entertaining Before The Mast nine-voice men’s sea shanty chorus 2 to 3 p.m. and eat ice cream from [...] -
another look at Alden Nowlan
ALDEN, JOHNNY, JUNE, RICHARD AND PRINCE CHARLES
There was a sensational cover image on the Telegraph-Journal’s Salon section Saturday, April 16.
Alden Nowlan, Johnny Cash, June Carter, Richard Hatfield and a lady whom I believe was Progressive Conservative organizer Libby Burnham. Richard Hatfield was then New Brunswick’s premier.
The photo was taken in 1975 during a concert [...]
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![DANIEL BRINGS HIS IRISH CHARM TO HARBOUR STATION
The autumn days are here again, the night winds chilly blow,
The woodlands turn to golden hue, the harvest moon’s aglow.
To [...]](http://gerrytaylor.thedrawlyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/DaODonnell-115x115.jpg "Daniel O’Donnell here June 5th")
Daniel O’Donnell here June 5th
Posted on May 5, 2011 | No CommentsDANIEL BRINGS HIS IRISH CHARM TO HARBOUR STATION The autumn days are here again, the night winds chilly blow, The woodlands turn to golden hue, the harvest moon’s aglow. To [...] -
![Sean Eyre just called from Rocklands Entertainment in Peterborough to say that Gerry’s column about Charlie Pride and “THE ROCK” portraying him in Charlie Pride’s life story has been picked up by 150 newspapers and radio station across North America and as far away as Australia. His column [...]](http://gerrytaylor.thedrawlyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/CharliePride1-115x115.jpg "DWAYNE ‘THE ROCK’ JOHNSON TO PLAY CHARLIE PRIDE")
DWAYNE ‘THE ROCK’ JOHNSON TO PLAY CHARLIE PRIDE
Posted on May 1, 2011 | No CommentsSean Eyre just called from Rocklands Entertainment in Peterborough to say that Gerry’s column about Charlie Pride and “THE ROCK” portraying him in Charlie Pride’s life story has been picked up by 150 newspapers and radio station across North America and as far away as Australia. His column [...] -
![(This year, 2011, Charlie Pride will be in NB, Saint John May 14 and Moncton Casino April 10 )
CHARLEY PRIDE HAS ALWAYS DONE IT HIS WAY!
Interviewing Charley Pride Saturday….I made a rather embarrassing blunder by suggesting he had appeared on the Nashville music scene at just the right time.
“No, my friend, it was a [...]](http://gerrytaylor.thedrawlyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/CPrideFans.jpg "A CHARLIE PRIDE ARTICLE FROM 2005")
A CHARLIE PRIDE ARTICLE FROM 2005
Posted on April 4, 2011 | No Comments(This year, 2011, Charlie Pride will be in NB, Saint John May 14 and Moncton Casino April 10 ) CHARLEY PRIDE HAS ALWAYS DONE IT HIS WAY! Interviewing Charley Pride Saturday….I made a rather embarrassing blunder by suggesting he had appeared on the Nashville music scene at just the right time. “No, my friend, it was a [...]
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