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DWAYNE ‘THE ROCK’ JOHNSON TO PLAY CHARLIE PRIDE
01 May 2011 7:44 AM | 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 [...]
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Wilf Carter and Cori Brewster
17 January 2011 4:42 PM | No Comments“Wilf Carter!” she said. “Then you should talk with Cori Brewster, my opening act,” she said. She's from Banff and her grandfather and father were promoters of Wilf's early on.”
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Eleanor McCain sings like my favourite Irish folk singers
16 December 2010 10:27 AM | No CommentsIn the 1980's when our provincial parliament was planning a Come Home To N.B. Year some famous ex-patriots were being invited, expenses paid, to return home for the celebration.
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Posted on February 4, 2012 | No CommentsFIDDLER ON THE ROOF KICKS UP HEELS AT IMPERIAL MONDAY & TUESDAY In a few short days the entourage of Fiddler On The Roof and it’s stage prop trucks will roll into Saint John’s Imperial Theatre for performances next Monday and Tuesday, Feb 6-7 at 8 p.m. And since such major theatrical productions, especially classic music spectaculars, [...]
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cash rasied from drawings sold go to Appleby Cancer Fund
Posted on January 2, 2012 | No CommentsCLOSEST 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 [...] -
Sylvia Tyson
Posted on November 6, 2011 | No CommentsSYLVIA 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 [...] -
Saint John Exhibition TONIGHT, Sept. 1, 2011
Posted on September 2, 2011 | No CommentsRandy 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 [...]
![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 [...]](http://gerrytaylor.thedrawlyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ElvisThaneDunn-115x115.jpg)
![Sylvia Tyson
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-01-115x115.jpg)
![Saint John Exhibition TONIGHT, Sept. 1, 2011
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-115x115.jpg)
I have been a writer/columnist for oveer thirty years. My focus have been folk and country music in the Maritimes, but I have also been involved in writing for the Atlantic Advocate, Canada Folk Bulletin, Canadian Bluegrass Review magazine