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Canuck Quotes: Bruce Cockburn

“When the Sept.11 thing happened and all that’s followed it, I felt first of all what good are songs in a context like this? Everything I’d written to that point seemed kind of meaningless. But then better judgement took hold and I realized that now more than ever we need to engage in the sharing [...]

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Trivia EH? Zal Yanovsky

Full name is Zalman Yanovsky Born in Toronto on December 19, 1944 Died just before his 58th birthday (December 14, 2002) of a heart attack. He and Richardson owned Chez Piggy and Pan Chancho bakery in Kingston, Ontario. Member of the Kingston Humane Society and regularly made donations. When he passed away his family requested [...]

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Trivia EH? Bruce Cockburn

Born in Ottawa, Ontario, May 27, 1945. His last name is pronounced Coe Burn. Maybe The Poet was used on a Miami Vice episode. The Bloor Street Viaduct mentioned in Anything Can Happen is a subway/car bridge that crosses high above the Don Valley River and Parkway. Honorary Chair of Friends of the Earth. Awarded [...]

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Trivia EH? Celine Dion

Born March 30, 1968, Charlemagne, Quebec. Angelil mortgaged his house to finance Celine’s first album. Won Eurovision song contest in Dublin Ireland in 1988. Her 2nd English album went platinum 6 times over in Canada. Has won more than 120 awards in Canada, the USA and Europe. She loves to golf. Owns a restaurant chain [...]

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Trivia EH? Natalie MacMaster

“Get Me Through December” was used in episode 306 of Dawson’s Creek. In 1995, she opened for Santana in Chattanooga, TN. She is the cousin of Ashley MacIsaac another famous Canadian Fiddler. Her fiddling can be heard on some General Motors Pontiac commercials. Born in June 1972, grew up in Troy, Inverness County. Mother, Minnie, [...]

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Zal Yanovsky

If the name Zal Yanovsky isn’t familiar to you then you probably didn’t grow up in Kingston, Ontario. Perhaps the band “Lovin’ Spoonful” is familiar? How about the songs “Summer in the City”? “Do You Believe in Magic”? “Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind”? Yanovsky and John Sebastian formed the Lovin’ Spoonful [...]

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Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn’s music can be described as catchy, moody, haunting and more. He uses jazz, country, rock, world music, pop, reggae, folk and any other beat he feels like writing into his music. There is not a trite, easy description that can pigeonhole his music into a particular style or genre. The lyrics of his [...]

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Celine Dion

Celine Dion must have learned how to turn the spotlight on herself at an early age. Being the youngest of 14 (yes – fourteen!) children, she could easily have been overshadowed. Instead she and her siblings entertained the public in their their parent’s local bar. She was twelve years old when she composed a song [...]

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Natalie MacMaster

I remember Natalie from the Tim Horton’s commercials. (Tim Horton’s is a Canadian Donut shop chain- no we don’t spell it doughnut) I confess I had never heard of or remembered her from anything else, but while perusing the international music selection at Borders I came across her “In My Hands” album and picked it [...]

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