News Roundup (Podcasts, Kirby, Ryan Van Sickle)

Local

• Loud City Podcast # 5
• Mark LaForme sings for Stompin' Tom
• New Liam McGlashon Twitter feed
• Ribfest planned for Ancaster Fairgrounds
  

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Canada 

• March 2013 issue of Maple Blues

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World

• Goodbye eMusic
• Podcasts: Roadhouse 418 & 419 & 420, Blues N da Blood 160 & 161

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Funny/Weird Stuff

• Cartoon: Daffy and Porky discuss radio

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Blasts From the Past

• 2009: Steve Strongman-Blues in Colour CD 
• 2010: Blues News Bites w/Dan Achen, Cartoons, Famous Framus, Groove Corporation and more
• 2011: The Mulligans@Gallaghers
• 2012: Robin Benedict/Done Deel Videos 

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Featured Videos



Links: Kirby, More Kirby Stories, Video Courtesy of Kirby


Links: Ryan Van Sickle,  More Ryan Van Sickle Stories, More Tom Waits Covers/Stories, Video courtesy of Ryan Van Sickle

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Kirby@The Casbah (December 16, 2011)

Kirby was opening for Drew Smith's CD Release Party.













Click here for Drew Smith's performance

Links: Kirby, More Kirby Stories

New Kirby EP: Into the Dark

Local singer/songwriter Kirby has unleashed a new EP, Into the Dark and it's a great, folk-pop recording with catchy hooks and emotional vocals. On top of that, Kirby's wonderful lyrics are mixed in with a modern, artistic, musical flair.

He's aided by a number of talented musicians such as Mike Scime, Ken Thor Corke, Max Wray, Graham Peaceful and more.

Not only is this an incredible EP but Kirby is also offering it as a free download for the fall of 2011. You better get it before it's too late!

Below are live videos of songs from the EP.





Links: Kirby, More Kirby Stories

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Cool YouTube Videos (Rita Chiarelli, Barney Bentall/Tom Wilson, Max Wray, Kirby)

Links: More videos from this performance - Rita Chiarelli - More Rita Chiarelli Stories

Videos courtesy of Rita Chiarelli.

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Links: Barney Bentall - Tom Wilson - More Tom Wilson Stories

Video courtesy of Racebabe

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Links: Max Wray - More Max Wray Stories - Kirby - More Kirby Stories

Video courtesy of Hamilton Seen

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Buskercrawl II on James Street (June 25, 2010)

Click here if you can't see the videos.



Links: Kirby - More Kirby Stories - Max Wray - More Max Wray Stories
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Links: Kenny MacInnis - More Kenny MacInnis Stories

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Links - Burnin' Ethyl - More Burnin' Ethyl Stories

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Links - Alfie Smith - More Alfie Smith Stories

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Links - Karen Corinth - More Karen Corinth Stories

Blues News Bites (Medakovic, Kirby, Dawn Larsh)

Local

• Mississippi Kings are Now Called City and the Sea
• View Magazine: Lee Harvey Osmond Cover Story, Hamilton Music Notes -Wilson Family Forgery/Blues With a Feeling 

World

• Podcasts: SA Roots and Blues #118, Murphy's Saloon #181, Nothing But the Blues #88, Roadhouse#274 
• Door Members to Tour with Voice Behind Rock Star Movie
• Mick Jagger Speaks Out For Legalized Drugs
• Bob Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone picked as best song of all time
• Joe Bonamassa's supergroup (featuring Deep Purple's Glenn Hughes and Jason Bonham) is now called Black Country Communion 

Featured Videos

Dan Medakovic: Karma's Gonna Get You


Kirby: Where to Begin


Broken by Dawn Larsh and Frank Koren

Blues New Bites (Eaglesmith, Kirby, Max Wray, Stones)

Local

• Free Kirby Christmas song MP3 download
• New Dave Rave blog about upcoming CD

National

• Fred Eaglesmith Helps Steelworkers 
• Top 20 CDs of 2009 from Roots Music Canada
• Leonard Cohen to get Lifetime Achievement Grammy
• Live Neil Young CD from 1992 now available

International

• Rolling Stones are decade's top selling live act

Funny/Weird Stuff

• Cool music toons: Rubes, Bizarro

Videos

Video of Max Wray on INDI FM




Links: Matt Paxton, More Matt Paxton Stories

Perfomer of the Week: Kirby

Kirby is a talented local musician who offers incredible modern sounding folk with a bit of an alternative edge.

Previously, he was the frontman for First Time Fallen, a Burlington prog-rock band. When Kirby went solo, he concentrated his haunting voice on the folk/roots sound.

In 2008, the singer/songwriter released an astounding EP, The Good Fight and toured across Canada 3 times. US and European dates are in the works.

Links: Main Site/Blog, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube



This is the last Performer of the Week for the year.