David Scrimshaw's Blog

Les Cowboys Fringants en concert avec l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal In 2020, les Cowboys Fringant recorded a performance with l...

One of the great things about living in Ottawa is how often you can go see a Lynn Miles show.  With the pandemic, these options are more lim...

After doing a bunch of Googling this afternoon, I discovered that I know a verse to the famous Newfoundland folksong I's the B'y th...

The residents of our block of Lebreton Street had a bagpipe concert last night from the talented Rose Roberts (contactable through Facebook)...

Last Wednesday, I was out for work, found myself washing my hands and remembered that we're supposed to sing Happy Birthday twice to ma...

"You have to arrange Bohemian Rhapsody ," I told Dave Moyer. It took him several years, but he did it. And we played it yesterday....

Those of us who happened to be on the right email list got a real treat a week and a half ago when we saw Bec and Rusty at Irene's. Alth...

The 20-somethings were super-excited about one of the performers at Blue Skies this year. I'd heard of him, but somehow I never got expo...

[ Update: Here is the 2012 version ] The Blue Skies Music Festival in Clarendon Ontario has no website and does not announce its lineup ...

This weekend the Maple Leaf Brass Band performed in two Last Night at the Proms concerts: Saturday in Perth, Sunday in Ottawa. Unfortunately...

As you know, I think everyone should play in a brass band and this is because playing harmonic music once a week does something for your mi...

Last week, I took a little break from reading stories about space pirates to skim through a nonfiction book: Absinthe & flamethrowers: p...

I've started putting the video of Astronaut Love Triangle's performance at Raw Sugar up on Vimeo. Astronaut Love Triangle: Avatar Lo...

Those notorious space punk artists, Astronaut Love Triangle , will be performing at the opening party for Milan Ilnyckyj 's photo openi...

The Blue Skies Music Festival has no web page. I assume this is for some combination of the following reasons: The Hats don't want more...

Sally Robinson's cd launch was an amazing show. More proof that if I tell you to go to something, you should go. In addition to all the...

Let me put it this way: Do not miss Sally's CD launch Sally has composed an album full of wonderful new songs ( the S Files ) and you g...

If you need proof that the South Africans do amazing things with choral arrangements, check out Ladysmith Black Mambazo singing the alphabet...

The Soweto Gospel Choir performed in Ottawa the Friday before Christmas and Manon and I managed to go. I have a series of disjointed commen...

Two weeks ago, we were out to see Ball and Chain at the Elmdale. They were promoting tonight's birthday party for Hank Williams at Iren...