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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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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 [...] -
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 [...] -
assorted Charlie Pride Photos with his son and friends
Posted on April 14, 2011 | No CommentsCharklie Pride and Son, Dion singing CHARLIE PRIDE’S U.S. CONCERNS ARE CANADA’S TOO ‘Kennedy and Lincoln, they both gave their lives for us, They would never do away with In God We Trust, They’ve taken the Lord’s Prayer from our classrooms, . [...] -
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 [...]
![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)
![DWAYNE ‘THE ROCK’ JOHNSON TO PLAY CHARLIE PRIDE
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)
![assorted Charlie Pride Photos with his son and friends
Charklie Pride and Son, Dion singing
CHARLIE PRIDE’S U.S. CONCERNS ARE CANADA’S TOO
‘Kennedy and Lincoln, they both gave their lives for us,
They would never do away with In God We Trust,
They’ve taken the Lord’s Prayer from our classrooms,
. [...]](http://gerrytaylor.thedrawlyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/07JunePride5-115x115.jpg)
![A CHARLIE PRIDE ARTICLE FROM 2005
(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)
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