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My debut cd "Deepest Shade of Blue" is now available. The cd's songs reflect stories that explore the challenges that we face as people in the tradition of Neil Young and Steve Earle. It is an Acoustic Alternative Rock album with the arrangements and full intensity of a band behind it.
I got started playing the clubs in Ottawa and the surrounding area as soon as they'd let me through the door. Music has been a passion of mine since I was a kid. I joined my first gigging band at 18 "The Source" and have played in a few different bands over the years and performed as a solo artist in most of the clubs in the city.
My music is influenced by my heritage, my belief in social justice and the musicians I work and perform with. Artists like Hendrix, Robbie Robertson, Dave Mathews, Crowded House have also provided inspiration and in particular artists like Neil Young who have a gift for weaving melody and substance in to a song. My songwriting is a candle for me, it casts a different kind of light on life, it challenges me to think further, to take an idea to a different level.
On a different artistic front I produced and released a film in 2006 called "At Last.." in partnership with Blackburn Films, I was director of Photography and wrote the music for the film. An incredible project and one that provided me with experience that I brought to the cd production process.
Deepest Shade of Blue is a culmination of years of writing, collaboration, rehearsing, performing and recording. It is all of those days and nights, the stone path, that led to this, my first cd.
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