{"id":1173,"date":"2013-11-01T20:49:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T01:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomleighton.info\/site\/stan-rogers-tribute-concert-in-toronto-on-friday-november-15th-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-11-01T20:49:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T01:49:50","slug":"stan-rogers-tribute-concert-in-toronto-on-friday-november-15th-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomleighton.info\/site\/stan-rogers-tribute-concert-in-toronto-on-friday-november-15th-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Stan Rogers Tribute Concert in Toronto on Friday, November 15th 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<ul class=\"gigpress-related-show active\">\n    <li>\n        <span class=\"gigpress-related-label\">Who&#8217;s Playing:<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gigpress-related-item\">Stan Rogers Tribute Concert<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n\t    <li>\n        <span class=\"gigpress-related-label\">Date:<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gigpress-related-item\">Friday, November 15th 2013 - Saturday, November 16th 2013\t\t<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n\t        <li>\n            <span class=\"gigpress-related-label\">Time:<\/span>\n            <span class=\"gigpress-related-item\">8:30pm<\/span>\n        <\/li>\n\t\n    <li>\n        <span class=\"gigpress-related-label\">Venue:<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gigpress-show-related\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hughsroom.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hugh&#8217;s Room<\/a><\/span>\n    <\/li>\n\n    <li>\n        <span class=\"gigpress-related-label\">City:<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gigpress-related-item\">Toronto\t\t<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n\t        <li>\n            <span class=\"gigpress-related-label\">Address:<\/span>\n            <span class=\"gigpress-related-item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?&amp;q=2261+Dundas+St.+W.+Toronto,Toronto,CA\" class=\"gigpress-address\" target=\"_blank\">2261 Dundas St. W. Toronto<\/a><\/span>\n        <\/li>\n\t\t        <li>\n            <span class=\"gigpress-related-label\">Venue phone:<\/span>\n            <span class=\"gigpress-related-item\">(416) 531-6604<\/span>\n        <\/li>\n\t    <li>\n        <span class=\"gigpress-related-label\">Country:<\/span>\n        <span class=\"gigpress-related-item\">Canada<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n\t        <li>\n            <span class=\"gigpress-related-label\">Admission:<\/span>\n            <span class=\"gigpress-related-item\">$25 Advance\/$27.50 Door<\/span>\n        <\/li>\n\t\t        <li>\n            <span class=\"gigpress-related-label\">Age restrictions:<\/span>\n            <span class=\"gigpress-related-item\">All Ages<\/span>\n        <\/li>\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t        <li><a href=\"http:\/\/hughsroom.com\/2013\/06\/stan-rogers-tribute-5\/\" target=\"_blank\">More information<\/a><\/li>\n\t\n\t        <li>\n            <span class=\"gigpress-related-label\">Notes:<\/span>\n            <span class=\"gigpress-related-item\">Hosted by Paul Mills\r\nfeaturing\r\nJames Keelaghan\r\nAriel Rogers\r\nNathan Rogers\r\nPaul Langille\r\nMary Kelly\r\nEvalyn Parry\r\nFor photos and more info go to:\r\nhttp:\/\/hughsroom.com\/2013\/06\/stan-rogers-tribute-5\/\r\n\r\nPaul Mills was Stan Rogers\u2019 record producer and close friend.  Since Rogers\u2019 death he has continued working with Stan\u2019s widow, Ariel to ensure that his music continues to thrive.\r\nIn addition to his distinguished work as a producer, Paul is also an accomplished performer and has been an important part of the Canadian folk music scene and recording industry for almost forty years.  He has produced well over one hundred and fifty albums working with artists such as Stan, J. P. Cormier, Sharon, Lois and Bram, Natalie MacMaster, Tanglefoot, Ron Hynes and John Allan Cameron.  He is also one of the founding partners of the folk music record label, Borealis Records.\r\nAlbums produced or engineered by Paul have earned four gold records (sales over 50,000), two platinum records (sales over 100,000), 5 Juno nominations and 5 East Coast Music Awards.  Natalie MacMaster\u2019s record, \u201cMy Roots are Showing\u201d, which Paul engineered, won the 1999 Juno award for best instrumental album.  Sharon Lois &amp; Bram\u2019s recording \u201cSkinnamarink TV\u201d, co-produced by Paul won the 2000 Juno for \u201cBest Children\u2019s Album\u201d.  Ron Hynes\u2019 CD \u201cGet Back Change\u201d, received the East Coast Music Awards nod for Best Album and Best Country Album of the year in 2004. Hynes\u2019 2006 release, \u201cRon Hynes\u201d also produced by Mills earned him the ECMA Male Vocalist of the Year award.\r\nIn 2006, Paul released a solo album, \u201cThe Other Side of the Glass\u201d to wide critical praise.  It received extensive airplay on folk and roots radio programs all over North America and in February of that year was the most played CD by North American folk DJs. He is currently performing extensively with Joanne Crabtree in the duo Crabtree &amp; Mills who are just completing their third recording together.\r\n\r\nJames Keelaghan\u2019s 11th CD, House of cards was released on October 12 2009 by Borealis records. 10 new originals, some of them co-writes with such folk luminaries as David Francey, Karine Polwart and Rose Cousins make it one of his best yet.\r\nCalled Canada\u2019s finest singer-songwriter by one of the most respected music journalists of the last 50 years, James Keelaghan is an artist who has proven to be a man for all seasons.\r\nAs the calendar pages have turned, for almost a quarter of a century now, this poet laureate of the folk and roots music world has gone about his work with a combination of passion, curiosity intent and intensity.\r\nHis masterful story telling has, over the course of nine recordings, been part of the bedrock of his success, earning Keelaghan nominations and awards \u2013 including a Juno (Canada\u2019s Grammy) &#8211; and acclaim from Australia to Scandinavia.\r\nPossessed of an insatiable appetite for finding the next unique story line, Keelaghan forges his pieces with brilliant craftsmanship and monogrammed artistic vision, making him one of the most distinctive and readily identifiable voices on both the Canadian and international singer-songwriter scenes.\r\nHis journey has attracted fans of literate and layered songwriting to join him on his artistic expeditions, some of which weave their way through marvelously etched historical stories with underlying universal themes, others of which mine the depths of the soul and the emotional trails of human relations.\r\nHis songbook has enlightened, enthralled, and been embraced, by audiences around the world.\r\n\u201cI\u2019ve always had the urge to write,\u201d says the Calgary native who has been calling Winnipeg home for the past few years. \u201cSome things weren\u2019t being said in the way I wanted to say them, some thing were not being written about at all. That\u2019s why i started to write the historical material. That led me to writing my own personal narratives as well.\u201d .\r\nKeelaghan is a disciplined visionary with several aces up his sleeve.  He loves language and history, a subject in which he earned a degree; he is a skilled thespian, which explains his ability to make an immediate connection with a live audience; and he has an ear for memorable melodies and harmonies that make those melodies glisten.\r\nSays Keelaghan, \u201cI\u2019m good for 80 or so books a year, mostly history and non-fiction, but inspiration can come in many forms. I\u2019m always on the lookout for a good story or idea. My sister told me the story that became Kiri\u2019s Piano, a  song that visits a dark chapter in Canadian history: Japanese interment camps in the Second World War. The image of someone sacrificing their prized possession in order to maintain their dignity was too powerful to ignore.\u201d\r\nNot only does Keelaghan lay claim to a deep catalogue of timeless originals like Kiri\u2019s Piano, Fires of Calais, Cold Missouri Waters, Jenny Bryce, and Hillcrest Mine, he is also a possessive interpreter of outside material, a fine example being his gripping take on Gordon Lightfoot\u2019s epic Canadian Railroad Trilogy from the Lighfoot tribute disc Beautiful. There are also a number of illustrations of his interpretive skills on his 2006 recording A Few Simple Verses, an homage to his roots in traditional music. The closing tune on that spellbinding set, My Blood, written with Jez Lowe, is one of many examples from Keelaghan\u2019s career of his inviting collaboration into his creative process.\r\n\u201cI was at the Celtic Colors Festival in 2008,\u201d says Keelaghan, \u201cand the producers locked six of us in a house for a week, and the company included Dave Gunning, David Francey, and Rose Cousins, it was an amazing experience. At the end of it, we had enough material for a complete show.\u201c\r\nKeelaghan has never shied away from collaboration in his live and recorded performances, touring and tracking with master musicians like Oliver Schroer, Oscar Lopez and Hugh McMillan. \u201cIf you work with people who are better than you, you become better,\u201d he observes.\r\nThe sparks of collaboration and the batting of melodies back and forth have produced some wonderful results, says Keelaghan, who is always finding a balance between examining the lighter and heavier sides of life. He ties it all together with a powerful vocal delivery and a commanding stage presence.\r\nAdmiration and respect for his work amongst his peers is reflected in the words of David Francey who recently stated that \u201cJames Keelaghan is a voice in contemporary Canadian songwriting that has helped us define who we are as a people. He writes with great humanity and honesty, with an eye to the past and a vision of the future. He has chronicled his times with powerful and abiding songs, with heart and eyes wide open.\u201d\r\nTerry Wickham, the producer of the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, is one of many longtime admirers of Keelaghan\u2019s music, and he sums up the artists appeal by saying, \u201cJames has become the complete artist. A brilliant tunesmith who has become one of the most engaging performers of our time. You always know the journey with James is going to be great, you just never know what all the destinations are. That is why the curve on his career continues to rise.\u201d\r\nIt was Dave Marsh, the award-winning American music critic and historian who not so long ago stated that James Keelaghan is \u201cCanada\u2019s finest songwriter.\u201d  Those few but powerful words of praise say it all about an artist who continues to set the bar at a lofty height.\r\n \r\n\r\nAriel Rogers once again joins us in this tribute to her late husband\u2019s music. Since his death, Ariel has worked tirelessly to ensure that Stan\u2019s music remains vital and available for people to enjoy and treasure.  For the past 28 years she has managed Fogarty\u2019s Cove Music, the company that manufactures and distributes Stan Rogers\u2019 recordings and handles his publishing interests. This past year she oversaw the remastering of the first five albums of Stan\u2019s recordings and licensed the distribution of Stan\u2019s entire catalogue to the very capable Borealis Records here in Toronto.\r\nAriel is involved in many aspects of volunteerism in her community and sings in her church choir. She spends many happy hours working with several little theatre groups and is often found treading the boards in pursuit of the perfect alter ego!\r\nHer beautiful voice and intimate knowledge of Stan\u2019s songs have been a part of almost every Stan Rogers Tribute concert over the past 9 years at Hugh\u2019s Room.  We\u2019re delighted that she has agreed to return.\r\n\r\nSome say he was born into it, some that he was born with it, while others claim he has earned it. With one foot planted firmly in folk music\u2019s traditional roots and the other reaching into its dynamic future, Nathan Rogers isn\u2019t entirely sure what \u2018it\u2019 is; singer, songwriter, guitarist, throat-chanter, percussionist, revivalist, or innovator. Whatever it may be, \u201cNathan has the ability to turn the folk world on its ears.\u201d\r\nLike many, it all started at home but what a unique home it was. Nathan\u2019s first experience picking up the guitar was an attempt to copy the challenging riffs his brother David created after studying with celebrated virtuosos Don Ross and Preston Reed. His sister Beth demanded perfection in all vocals as any self-exacting classical voice teacher would, while his mother initiated him into the business side of the music industry. His father and uncle informed both his writing style and an ethos of Canadian people that shines in his lyrics.\r\nWhile others were hiding their braces behind their hands, Nathan was already up high on stages of all sorts. In winter, he traveled with and won solo vocal awards as part of the Appleby Boys Choir. Summers were saved for his first love \u2013 appearances at folk festivals and the opportunity to meet, perform with and learn from outstanding musicians. Before he even had an album in hand, Nathan\u2019s reputed vocal ability had him singing on stage with such notables as JP Cormier, The Oysterband, Spirit of the West, John Cameron, Connie Caldor and James Keelaghan.\r\nWith a degree in comparative religion, an award winning voice and two prized Laskin guitars under his belt, Nathan founded his own record label, Halfway Cove Music. In 2005 he finally released his debut album, True Stories. Produced by Rick Fenton (former AD of Winnipeg Folk Festival), distributed by Festival and studded with such outstanding roots musicians as Nikki Mehta, JP Cormier, and Murray Pulver, True Stories was met with critical acclaim both at home and abroad. If multiple encores at every show are any indication, Canadian audiences coast-to-coast seem to like it too.\r\nNathan\u2019s performance style leaves the audiences wondering where the rest of the band is hiding. Singing, chanting, playing the guitar and stomping, he fills any stage with \u201cmagnificent powerfully clear lyrics and arrangements.\u201d Described as \u2018intelligent and witty\u2019, Nathan will \u2018move men and women to tears with his sound and conviction.\u201d\r\nNathan continues to earn his place in the Canadian folk and blues canon. As Fenton noted, \u201cI have never seen any musician Nathan\u2019s age who works so hard on his singing and guitar playing.\u201d.\r\nNathan has recently become an adept throat singer, specializing in the Tuvan and Mongolian styles. A cultural tour-de-force in his own right, Nathan now brings a uniquely eastern falvour to a western tradition.\r\nNathan\u2019s new album, \u201cthe Gauntlet\u201d is available on Borealis Records and has met with very positive critical review thus far. Please visit www.borealisrecords.com\r\n \r\nPaul Langille took to the stage at a very young age, singing and playing guitar in dance halls, service clubs, and numerous other venues in and around his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario. During this time, Paul learned the basics of performance and stage work \u2013 this was fertile ground for a musical prodigy \u2013 and he developed a keen understanding of what entertaining was about.\r\nIn late 2001, Paul was involved in the collaborative recording\/ performance ..Tears of a Thousand Years.. which raised funds for the relief effort in New York following the events of September 11th.\r\nPaul worked with Orchestra London in their Jeans &amp; Classics series for eight years, contributing strong vocals to many of the Orchestra\u2019s live performances, including special events, corporate shows and, on occasion, doing special performances that featured Paul as the headliner. These shows were always sold-out in advance, which is an incredible compliment to Paul..s vocals, showmanship, and ability to draw a crowd.\r\nOver the years, Paul has won numerous accolades and awards, including the prestigious AMPAC (Advertising Music Producers Association of Canada) award for 1986 and was nominated for the COCA (Canadian Organization of Campus Activities )Top Contemporary Artist of the Year award, 1988.\r\nIn 2008, Paul won the Jack Richardson Award for best Contemporary Singer\/Songwriter.\r\nThese days a musician and artist must utilize all the voices available to him. Paul has many voices, all emanating from the heart and soul. These are Paul\u2019s strongest attributes \u2026 strong voice, instrumental work and song writing coupled with an honest passion for his music.\r\n\r\nOriginally from Nova Scotia, now living in Toronto, Mary is a singer, actor, musician, and teacher.  Like everyone in her family, she loves stories and storytelling, that is what connects all of her performing.  Stan Rogers has long been an inspiration to her and it is truly a pleasure to return to Hugh\u2019s Room to celebrate him.  \r\n \r\nAs an actor, Mary recently made her New York debut in Living With Henry, an original Canadian musical that was part of the New York Musical Theater Festival.  Living With Henry is a musical play about living with \u2013 not dying from \u2013 HIV\/AIDS.  She has originated roles in When All the Slaves Are Free (original musical based on music of Joni Mitchell at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa); Sincerely, a Friend (based on the music of Leonard Cohen, concept and direction by Bryden MacDonald); and Sophie in Sophie Tucker, the Last of the Red Hot Lovers as well as many other book musicals across Canada.\r\n \r\nShe\u2019s sung in hotel bars, at folk festivals, on concert stages, radio, TV and recording studios.  Highlights include performing with Symphony Nova Scotia as principal soloist; being taken to space on tape by Canadian astronaut Roberta Bondar; and being Assistant Director to the Papal Visit Choir in Nova Scotia.\r\n\r\n Award-winning songwriter, poet and theatre artist evalyn parry\u2019s witty, personal, highly original work is inspired by a powerful vision of social activism. Steeped in the folk tradition but born to innovate, her genre-blurring performances explore everything from 19th century cycling heroines to bottled water; from feminine protection to the quest for the Northwest Passage. Over the past three years she has toured her acclaimed, multimedia song cycle SPIN (starring The Bicycle) from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island to the Northwest Territories; SPIN was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award and evalyn has been the recipient of The Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award, The KM Hunter Award for Theatre, a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Production www.evalynparry.com<\/span>\n        <\/li>\n\t<\/ul><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">[\n    {\n        \"@context\": \"http:\/\/schema.org\",\n        \"@type\": \"Event\",\n        \"name\": \"Stan Rogers Tribute Concert\",\n        \"startDate\": \"2013-11-15T20:30:00\",\n        \"url\": \"https:\/\/www.tomleighton.info\/site\/stan-rogers-tribute-concert-in-toronto-on-friday-november-15th-2013\/\",\n        \"endDate\": \"2013-11-16T20:30:00\",\n        \"description\": \"Hosted by Paul Mills\\r\\nfeaturing\\r\\nJames Keelaghan\\r\\nAriel Rogers\\r\\nNathan Rogers\\r\\nPaul Langille\\r\\nMary Kelly\\r\\nEvalyn Parry\\r\\nFor photos and more info go to:\\r\\nhttp:\/\/hughsroom.com\/2013\/06\/stan-rogers-tribute-5\/\\r\\n\\r\\nPaul Mills was Stan Rogers\\u2019 record producer and close friend.  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That\\u2019s why i started to write the historical material. That led me to writing my own personal narratives as well.\\u201d .\\r\\nKeelaghan is a disciplined visionary with several aces up his sleeve.  He loves language and history, a subject in which he earned a degree; he is a skilled thespian, which explains his ability to make an immediate connection with a live audience; and he has an ear for memorable melodies and harmonies that make those melodies glisten.\\r\\nSays Keelaghan, \\u201cI\\u2019m good for 80 or so books a year, mostly history and non-fiction, but inspiration can come in many forms. I\\u2019m always on the lookout for a good story or idea. My sister told me the story that became Kiri\\u2019s Piano, a  song that visits a dark chapter in Canadian history: Japanese interment camps in the Second World War. The image of someone sacrificing their prized possession in order to maintain their dignity was too powerful to ignore.\\u201d\\r\\nNot only does Keelaghan lay claim to a deep catalogue of timeless originals like Kiri\\u2019s Piano, Fires of Calais, Cold Missouri Waters, Jenny Bryce, and Hillcrest Mine, he is also a possessive interpreter of outside material, a fine example being his gripping take on Gordon Lightfoot\\u2019s epic Canadian Railroad Trilogy from the Lighfoot tribute disc Beautiful. There are also a number of illustrations of his interpretive skills on his 2006 recording A Few Simple Verses, an homage to his roots in traditional music. The closing tune on that spellbinding set, My Blood, written with Jez Lowe, is one of many examples from Keelaghan\\u2019s career of his inviting collaboration into his creative process.\\r\\n\\u201cI was at the Celtic Colors Festival in 2008,\\u201d says Keelaghan, \\u201cand the producers locked six of us in a house for a week, and the company included Dave Gunning, David Francey, and Rose Cousins, it was an amazing experience. At the end of it, we had enough material for a complete show.\\u201c\\r\\nKeelaghan has never shied away from collaboration in his live and recorded performances, touring and tracking with master musicians like Oliver Schroer, Oscar Lopez and Hugh McMillan. \\u201cIf you work with people who are better than you, you become better,\\u201d he observes.\\r\\nThe sparks of collaboration and the batting of melodies back and forth have produced some wonderful results, says Keelaghan, who is always finding a balance between examining the lighter and heavier sides of life. He ties it all together with a powerful vocal delivery and a commanding stage presence.\\r\\nAdmiration and respect for his work amongst his peers is reflected in the words of David Francey who recently stated that \\u201cJames Keelaghan is a voice in contemporary Canadian songwriting that has helped us define who we are as a people. He writes with great humanity and honesty, with an eye to the past and a vision of the future. He has chronicled his times with powerful and abiding songs, with heart and eyes wide open.\\u201d\\r\\nTerry Wickham, the producer of the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, is one of many longtime admirers of Keelaghan\\u2019s music, and he sums up the artists appeal by saying, \\u201cJames has become the complete artist. A brilliant tunesmith who has become one of the most engaging performers of our time. You always know the journey with James is going to be great, you just never know what all the destinations are. That is why the curve on his career continues to rise.\\u201d\\r\\nIt was Dave Marsh, the award-winning American music critic and historian who not so long ago stated that James Keelaghan is \\u201cCanada\\u2019s finest songwriter.\\u201d  Those few but powerful words of praise say it all about an artist who continues to set the bar at a lofty height.\\r\\n \\r\\n\\r\\nAriel Rogers once again joins us in this tribute to her late husband\\u2019s music. Since his death, Ariel has worked tirelessly to ensure that Stan\\u2019s music remains vital and available for people to enjoy and treasure.  For the past 28 years she has managed Fogarty\\u2019s Cove Music, the company that manufactures and distributes Stan Rogers\\u2019 recordings and handles his publishing interests. This past year she oversaw the remastering of the first five albums of Stan\\u2019s recordings and licensed the distribution of Stan\\u2019s entire catalogue to the very capable Borealis Records here in Toronto.\\r\\nAriel is involved in many aspects of volunteerism in her community and sings in her church choir. She spends many happy hours working with several little theatre groups and is often found treading the boards in pursuit of the perfect alter ego!\\r\\nHer beautiful voice and intimate knowledge of Stan\\u2019s songs have been a part of almost every Stan Rogers Tribute concert over the past 9 years at Hugh\\u2019s Room.  We\\u2019re delighted that she has agreed to return.\\r\\n\\r\\nSome say he was born into it, some that he was born with it, while others claim he has earned it. With one foot planted firmly in folk music\\u2019s traditional roots and the other reaching into its dynamic future, Nathan Rogers isn\\u2019t entirely sure what \\u2018it\\u2019 is; singer, songwriter, guitarist, throat-chanter, percussionist, revivalist, or innovator. Whatever it may be, \\u201cNathan has the ability to turn the folk world on its ears.\\u201d\\r\\nLike many, it all started at home but what a unique home it was. Nathan\\u2019s first experience picking up the guitar was an attempt to copy the challenging riffs his brother David created after studying with celebrated virtuosos Don Ross and Preston Reed. His sister Beth demanded perfection in all vocals as any self-exacting classical voice teacher would, while his mother initiated him into the business side of the music industry. His father and uncle informed both his writing style and an ethos of Canadian people that shines in his lyrics.\\r\\nWhile others were hiding their braces behind their hands, Nathan was already up high on stages of all sorts. In winter, he traveled with and won solo vocal awards as part of the Appleby Boys Choir. Summers were saved for his first love \\u2013 appearances at folk festivals and the opportunity to meet, perform with and learn from outstanding musicians. Before he even had an album in hand, Nathan\\u2019s reputed vocal ability had him singing on stage with such notables as JP Cormier, The Oysterband, Spirit of the West, John Cameron, Connie Caldor and James Keelaghan.\\r\\nWith a degree in comparative religion, an award winning voice and two prized Laskin guitars under his belt, Nathan founded his own record label, Halfway Cove Music. In 2005 he finally released his debut album, True Stories. Produced by Rick Fenton (former AD of Winnipeg Folk Festival), distributed by Festival and studded with such outstanding roots musicians as Nikki Mehta, JP Cormier, and Murray Pulver, True Stories was met with critical acclaim both at home and abroad. If multiple encores at every show are any indication, Canadian audiences coast-to-coast seem to like it too.\\r\\nNathan\\u2019s performance style leaves the audiences wondering where the rest of the band is hiding. Singing, chanting, playing the guitar and stomping, he fills any stage with \\u201cmagnificent powerfully clear lyrics and arrangements.\\u201d Described as \\u2018intelligent and witty\\u2019, Nathan will \\u2018move men and women to tears with his sound and conviction.\\u201d\\r\\nNathan continues to earn his place in the Canadian folk and blues canon. As Fenton noted, \\u201cI have never seen any musician Nathan\\u2019s age who works so hard on his singing and guitar playing.\\u201d.\\r\\nNathan has recently become an adept throat singer, specializing in the Tuvan and Mongolian styles. A cultural tour-de-force in his own right, Nathan now brings a uniquely eastern falvour to a western tradition.\\r\\nNathan\\u2019s new album, \\u201cthe Gauntlet\\u201d is available on Borealis Records and has met with very positive critical review thus far. Please visit www.borealisrecords.com\\r\\n \\r\\nPaul Langille took to the stage at a very young age, singing and playing guitar in dance halls, service clubs, and numerous other venues in and around his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario. During this time, Paul learned the basics of performance and stage work \\u2013 this was fertile ground for a musical prodigy \\u2013 and he developed a keen understanding of what entertaining was about.\\r\\nIn late 2001, Paul was involved in the collaborative recording\/ performance ..Tears of a Thousand Years.. which raised funds for the relief effort in New York following the events of September 11th.\\r\\nPaul worked with Orchestra London in their Jeans &amp; Classics series for eight years, contributing strong vocals to many of the Orchestra\\u2019s live performances, including special events, corporate shows and, on occasion, doing special performances that featured Paul as the headliner. 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