All Posts Tagged With: "Josh Lyon"
The Skeleton Park Community Songbook: Rueben deGroot with the Grad Club
Last year, we proudly featured a majority of the songs released as a part of the Skeleton Park Community Songbook, a collaborative project paring 12 Kingston community groups and local professional musicians. The songbook not only reflects the rich diversity of the local community but it also encourages Kingstonians to share music together and learn [...]
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The Skeleton Park Community Songbook: Kyra and Tully with the Grand Theatre
Today I’m thrilled to share the most recent addition to the Skeleton Park Community Songbook featuring Kyra and Tully, as well as huge cast of musician friends and volunteers from the Grand Theatre. Kyra and Tully describe the inspiration of their song titled ‘Love in all These Things’ as follows: The song, which celebrates family [...]
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Culture Days
Last weekend Canada celebrated the second annual Culture Days, a three-day event filled with opportunities to see, hear and discover culture in and around your city. Artists volunteer their time and creativity to share hands-on, interactive activities that invite the public to participate “behind the scenes,” to discover the world of artists, creators, historians, architects, [...]
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The Skeleton Park Community Songbook with David Francey & Open Voices
There’s a new Skeleton Park Community Songbook video featuring David Francey with Open Voices Choir, Ernestown Secondary School Choir, as well as members of the National Farmers Union and Save Our Prison Farms, who combine to perform Torn Screen Door. I’m sort of embarrassed to admit that while I’ve heard a lot of great things [...]
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Guide to March Break
In case your kids haven’t reminded you, March Break is but a few days away. Kids throughout the Limestone District School Board are presently sitting in class watching the clock, and counting down to a week where they’ll be free from finger painting and standardized testing. If you’re like many of the parents I’ve spoken [...]
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Six Questions for The Gertrudes
With the Skeleton Park Music Festival less than one week away, more on that later, we thought that it would be appropriate to sit down with one of the many bands performing at this year’s festival. Who better than the fine folks from The Gertrudes for our latest round of six questions? We’ve featured not [...]
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ACMF2010 Animation Workshop Video
As a part of the Apple Crisp Music Festival 2010 (ACMF2010) which went down over the March Break, Josh Lyon and Lenny Epstein put on a fantastic animation workshop for kids. I must admit that I am really interested in trying my hand at this sort of thing, but I took the hint when I [...]
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Friday Foto
Last night I ventured over to 108 Charles Street to check out The Happiness Project, which is a multidisciplinary exhibition that is based on Charles Spearin’s record of the same name. A stellar cast of Kingston, Toronto and Montreal-based artists including Josh Lyon, Annie Clifford, Marney McDiarmid, Don Maynard, Jon Claytor, Nicole Aline Legault, Jeff [...]
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Rock Plaza Central: Handsome Men
The Toronto-based band Rock Plaza Central is self-described as Canada’s best alt-not-country-orchestra. I recently caught wind of the band after stumbling across a new video for their song titled (Don’t You Believe the Words of) Handsome Men, which was created by Josh Lyon and Lenny Epstein. These local creative types are the same minds behind [...]
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Six Questions for Reuben deGroot
In our third episode of Six Questions, we sit down (via Email) with Reuben de Groot and one of his band members, ivory tickler, Josh Lyon. Over the past few years, I’ve enjoyed many of Reuben’s live performances at both the Grad Club and the Mansion, while you might also remember him from a recent [...]
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