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December
Hank and the boys appear
back out at the Watermelon patch and the Castle Rock Pub.
Also an unplugged version at the Blue Chair.
The Christmas Carol Project
is keeping Al Brant, Dale Ladouceur and Bill Hobson busy this
month.
Merry Christmas from Tacoy
Ryde!
November
Everyone's in the studio this
month: Tacoy Ryde, Big Hank and Fist full of Blues and Dale Ladouceur
are all sharing the available time nicely to work on their respective
projects.
Tacoy Ryde is back at the Commercial
Hotel, Blues on Whyte, November 19- 24
October
Barrie
Nighswander is touring with Margot Kane in eastern Canada this
month.
September
Tacoy
Ryde and Big Hank begin work on their respective CD projects
at the Track House at Crowtown.
August
Bill
Hobson's father William Albert Hobson passed away peacefully
on August 22 at the age of 86.
Tacoy
Ryde Plays the Annual wine and Beer festival at Festival place
in Sherwood Park
July
June
May
Big
Hank and the Boys (see April), will be at the Watermelon
Patch in Egremont on May 12 and the following weekend; May 18
aand 19 at the Palace Casino in West Edmonton Mall.
Crowtown's
new studio, The Trackhouse, is ready to move into this month
so Bill and the boys will be moving the gear in and testing things
out. It's expected to be ready for commercial operation by some
time in June.
Dale
Ladouceur will be performing with Laura Vinson this month in
Stony Plain on the 11th and 12th.
The
Carol Project television special which features Dale Ladouceur,
Al Brant and Bill Hobson has just won an AMPIA award (Rosie)
for best musical or variety show. Details at
www.brassmonkeyproductions.com
April
Farewell
to Dawn Woolsey as our intrepid webmaster. She's cutting the
rope and letting us fly on our own. Bill Hobson is the first
to take a crack at the maintenance and updates to this website.
The
band (minus Dale And Al and plus ex-Ryder Ken "Turk"
Kirkwood) will be performing with Big Hank Lionheart at the Overdrive
pub in St. Albert on April 20 and 21. Rumour has it that there's
a CD in the works for this band.
This
month you can catch Dale Ladouceur at the Edmonton Earth day
Celebrations at Hawrelak Park on the afternnoon of April 22.
March
2007 started off with the band (minus our singers Al and Dale)
playing the Blues on Whyte with old friend Hank Lionheart.
Hank's a Stettler brother who made good in the 80s with Uncle
Wiggly's Hot Shoes Blues Band. Shortly after that we were
back at the B on W for one show in the afternoon of Jan 27 for
the Winter Blues Fest. We all had a great time with Bill
Bourne, Tippy a Gogo and Laurelle playing the S.I.R.E.N.S.
Benefit around Valentines day. This was our second gig
for S.I.R.E.N.S. and we were happy to help with their good works.
Bill's studio is nearing completion and with any luck it should
be finished before summer. This means that a new Tacoy Ryde CD
is going to be produced very soon. We have a great new crop of
songs already being performed and once the disc is released we
expect to be getting some good airplay for the big fourtieth
anniversary summer in 2008. (See REVIEWS
for Peter North's impression of some of the new songs).
Special thanks to Dawn Woolsey for designing our website and
going the extra mile helping us fill it up with the proper content.
Dale Ladouceur is busy writing and musical directing a Theatre
Yes
production called The Enchantment. Bill Hobson is in the
band along with
Brett Miles on saxophones flute and percussion. The show opens
on March 9th
and runs to March 25th at Cite Francophone. Tickets/Info
at Tix on the
Square or at the Workshop West website, www.workshopwest.org.
Barrie Nighswander is musical director for Margo Kane's "Confessions
of
an Indian Cowboy" which has been and will continue to
be touring all over
the world off and on. For more information check www.fullcircle.ca.
Al Brant's much anticipated solo CD "Songs for the Morning
Sun" will be
officially released at the Blue Chair in Edmonton on March
17th. Barrie will
be performing with him on that night. Al has added a second night
March 31st
at the Blue Chair due to a sold out night on the 17th. Duane
Smith will be
playing Bass on that night. Visit www.albrant.ca
or www.bluechair.ca
for
more info.
Dennis Meneely and Barrie Nighswander are still working occasionally
with '80s rocker Holly Woods and Toronto. Stay tuned for upcoming
dates.
Dennis also just finished recording some background music at
CBC studios
for poet Randy Adams. Catch Dennis at the River Cree Resort
Casino for some
dueling pianos with Doctor Boogie.
February
Dance with Tacoy Ryde, Bill Bourne & Friends at the Northgate
Lions Centre.
February 16: See Concerts
for more information.
January
Tacoy Ryde will be at the Blues on Whyte January 27.
See Reviews for newly added
press reviews of previous Blues on Whyte gigs. |
