Music and Visual Alchemy Made Easy – Janel Rae
Photo credit: Greg Lehming Sculpting sound and visuals seem to come easy to Toronto-based, B.C. Native, Janel Rae Filipiak, who at the tender age of 23 already has 3 CDs and a plethora of music videos under her belt. Her vocals remind me of a person much older and weatherworn. Continue Reading
Coming out of the Darkness – Interview with Director Deborah Friedman and Producer Ally Brumer
Photo credit: Contact Theatre They say it only takes one little candle to bring light to a big dark place. Montreal’s Contact Theatre is staging a Pulitzer-prize winning rock musical about “finding light in darkness and finding love in the face of loss.” Next to Normal is its name, and Continue Reading
Planet Happiness Electric Guitar Micro-Festival – In conversation with Tim Brady
Photo and video credit: Tim Brady I had the opportunity of speaking with Tim Brady, director of the Planet Happiness Electric Guitar Micro -festival. Brady is a local composer and guitarist with over 25 albums under his belt. He and his fellow musical composers push the sonic limits of the Continue Reading
4 Octave Country Rock – A Conversation with Megan Knight
Recently I interviewed Megan Knight. She is a young upcoming singer-songwriter from Southern New Jersey. Knight has been honing her craft as a musical artist from the very young age of 14, withdrawing from school and studying independently in order to focus her attention on music. Knight has a very Continue Reading
Conversation with Montreal Journalist Josh Freed
With a world so polarized there has never been a time more needed than now to view our differences in a comedic way. People need to lighten up and come together. We need a positive force to repair families and friendships that have been trashed by the pandemic. Comedy is Continue Reading