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Jake Feeney Is Clearly a Star in Development
Jake Feeney is visiting the south shore of Georgian Bay tonight and in a single evening he’ll be joining up with other musicians to play for audiences in Meaford and Owen Sound. In Meaford he’ll be opening for Culture Reject at The Barn Coop. While he is there Missy Bauman, Andrew Nunno and Marshall Veroni will be playing at Heartwood Hall and Jake will be joining up with them later in the evening.
Son of country record producer and songwriter Joel Feeney, Jake has always been a musician and songwriter.
“Every day, music has always excited me,” he says, He started at the age of six, on the piano and then guitar. By the time he graduated from the Etobicoke School of The Arts a few years ago, his music had impressed his principle as well as his classmates.
“Jake was a regular contributor to our once-a-month drop-in arts show, ‘Miscellaneous,’” his principle Mr. MacKinnon told www.radixonline.ca at the time. “He was always well-rehearsed and played and sang cover tunes as well as original compositions. His quiet energy was engaging for everyone in the audience and whenever he would go up, the chatter would go down and the cameras would come out.”
And so Mr. Mckinnon entered him in the RBC Emerging Artist contest, which he won, hitting the ground running in a career he already knew he’d been born for.
“It can be a little bit isolating,” he says, “I knew when I was six years old what I wanted to do. It was strange to see my friends going off to university with no clear idea of what they were going to do.”
The Thursday Outlook – August 10 to 14, 2017
The Travelling Thornburys are featured this Saturday night at The Leeky Canoe in Meaford. This is a duo consisting of Jon Zaslow and Kevin Campbell. They offer up some great harmonies and tunes that range from The Beatles to The Everly Brothers. Jon as also an accomplished guitarist that has become a regular accompanist for Chris Scerri and has co-hosted many Thursday night jams with him at The Leeky.
At The Barn Coop on Saturday night, it’s a rare chance to see Culture Reject in concert. This is part of a concert series put together at The Barn by Greg Smith, in which he pairs more established artists with up-and-comers. Culture Reject, featuring Michael O’Connell and Karri North, is a band that has a unique and mesmerizing sound. Michael evolved this band out of the popular band Black Cabbage, with which he toured for several years. He now tours annually in Europe to a growing following there. The opener for this concert is Jake Feeney, a young singer-songwriter who seems much more mature than he is. Having been a songwriter since he was six or seven, Jake has a voice similar to John Maher and a beautiful style of guitar picking. This is a show well worth checking out.
The Thursday Outlook – April 13 to 16, 2017
There’s a pretty special show going down at the Gayety Theatre in Collingwood on Saturday night when Bill and Joel Plaskett come to the area with their Solidarity album. Joel was in Meaford last year and he talked then about doing an album with his dad, but this is no one-off collaboration. In addition to teaching Joel how to play, Bill Plaskett has played banjo on Joel’s recordings as early as 2001’s Down at the Khyber, and became a full-fledged supporting player on 2009’s Three. There have been eight Joel Plaskett albums since Thrush Hermit. This one features a lot of his dad’s original songs. Bill was deeply into the British Folk Revival, people like Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and Davey Graham, before he emigrated to Nova Scotia from England. When Joel was a little kid, Bill ran a coffee house, started trad bands and helped found the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival. Saturday night at the Gayety gives Joel Plaskett fans a chance to see him play with his most important influence.
Richard Laviolette might have had a similar record with his dad if his mom hadn’t been sick. Instead the record he’s celebrating at Heartwood Concert Hall on the very same Saturday night is a moving and entertaining look at life growing up in Tara and fields beyond. Like Joel he grew up surrounded by family music, and learned from his dad how to play. He’ll be sharing the evening with Jessy Bell Smith.
Tonight if you are old enough and yet retain some relevant memory of the sixties, or are young enough to think that Woodstock was real life, you can soak up the British Invasion from 1969 Revisited at Heartwood.
Tonight if you are old enough and yet retain some relevant memory of the sixties, or are young enough to think that Woodstock was real life, you can soak up the British Invasion from 1969 Revisited at Heartwood. It was the time when bands from Britain taught white kids from North America what the blues was about. This 7 piece band takes you back to your turntable or your favorite FM station. Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.
The Thursday Outlook – March 9 to 12, 2017
Victoria Yeh is back in town this weekend. She’ll be adding her inimitable talents to the Thursday night open stage with Chris Scerri at The Leeky Canoe, and joining him again on Friday night at Gustav’s in Collingwood.
If you weren’t proactive enough, you’ve missed your chance to see a couple of great shows this weekend that have been sold out. One is the latest in the Meaford Hall Gallery Series on Saturday night with multiple award winning guitarist and singer Wendall Ferguson. If you’re a fan of great guitar players, you can spend the evening across the street with David J. Russell instead. He been very busy playing all over the area and hasn’t played The Leeky in a while, so it’s worth catching.
The other show you’ve missed if you don’t have tickets already is the Songwriters’ Evening at The Bleeding Carrot in Owen Sound, hosted by Summerfolk’s Jon Farmer and featuring Meaford’s young phenomenon Greg Smith, along with Marshall Veroni and Pat Maloney. But you can stay in Meaford on Friday night and enjoy the guitar stylings of Stevie Gee, returning this week to The Red Door.
Or check out Freeman Dre and The Kitchen Party at Bruce Wine Bar on Friday. This band, up from Queen West in Toronto, began as kitchen jams that spilled out into the street, eventually coming together with Dale Morningstar to record a debut CD, “Old Town” at The Gas Station studio in Toronto in 2012. Great reviews have built a reputation for the band, known particularly for Andre (Dre) Flak’s songs and storytelling, as well as genre-jumping musical styles that have attracted notice in Montreal, New York, and as far afield as Eastern Europe, and the UK.
The Harbour Street Fish Bar continues its string of great Toronto based blues bands on Saturday night with Jerome Godboo, and Godboogie. This veteran harmonica player, legendary to Toronto fans as front man for The Phantoms, took home the Lee Oskar best harmonica Player award at the International blues Challenge 2014 held in Memphis. He’s recorded and toured with the Phantoms, Alannah Myles, Dutch Mason, Jeff Healey, Ronnie Hawkins, Jack de Keyzer, among others. This will be another hopping Saturday night at the Fish Bar.
There’s lots of other good stuff happening in this great Georgian Bay music hub: check the listings at the right. And then on Sunday afternoon chill out at The Barn Cooperative in Meaford where their open mic has a real magic about it that brings out talent of all types. No tickets required, but if you want a good seat you’d better try to be there by noon.
