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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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John Murphy, arts community losses
Posted on January 17, 2010 | No CommentsIN MEMORIAM…AMONG THOSE WHO LEFT US IN 2009 Looking back at the year 2009, it seems New Brunswick, the southern half particular, was more bereaved by deaths in our musical community than in most recent years. Among those were: John with Anna singing at home in Hampton JOHN DOUGLAS JAMES MURPHY In September 1975, John Murphy who had [...]
![John Murphy, arts community losses IN MEMORIAM…AMONG THOSE WHO LEFT US IN 2009
Looking back at the year 2009, it seems New Brunswick, the southern half particular, was more bereaved by deaths in our musical community than in most recent years. Among those were:
John with Anna singing at home in Hampton
JOHN DOUGLAS JAMES MURPHY
In September 1975, John Murphy who had [...]](http://gerrytaylor.thedrawlyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/JohnAnna2closeUp-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