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Suitcase Sam
Suitcase Sam is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Toronto, Ontario. He is known for his self titled project, playing with a full band sometimes described as ''Suitcase Sam and the Suits'' or ''Suitcase Sam and his Orchestra''. Career Suitcase Sam, inspired by the 1920's Jazz Age and acts like Leon Redbone, released his first EP ''Get It To Go'' in 2010. He was originally signed with ''Pleasance Records''. The album was later adapted into a short film for BravoFACT under the same name. After joining Curve Music, ''Get It To Go'' was reissued in 2019. He has opened for acts like Courtney Barnett, Elliott Brood and Benjamin Booker. In 2019 on the Curve label, Suitcase Sam released ''Goodnight Riverdale Park'' to favourable reviews. Album collaborations included Marlon Chaplin Marlon Chaplin is a Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Toronto, Ontario. He is known for playing with ''Broken Bricks'', '' Freeman Dre and the Kitchen Party'', '' Suitcase Sam'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada and the List of North American cities by population, fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multiculturalism, multicultural and cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with Toronto ravine system, rivers, deep ravines, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courtney Barnett
Courtney Melba Barnett (born 3 November 1987) is an Australian singer, songwriter, and musician. Known for her deadpan singing style and witty, rambling lyrics, she attracted attention with the release of her debut EP ''I've Got a Friend Called Emily Ferris'' in 2012. International interest came with the release of her EP '' The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas'' in 2013. Barnett's debut album, '' Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit'', was released in 2015 to widespread acclaim. At the 2015 ARIA Music Awards, she won four awards from eight nominations. She was nominated for Best New Artist at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards and International Female Solo Artist at the 2016 Brit Awards. She released '' Lotta Sea Lice'', a collaborative album with Kurt Vile, in 2017. She released her second album, '' Tell Me How You Really Feel'', to further acclaim in 2018. Barnett's third studio album '' Things Take Time, Take Time'' was released in November 2021. Early life Cour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Canadian Guitarists
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Musicians From Toronto
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Canadian Singer-songwriters
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The Lemon Bucket Orkestra
The Lemon Bucket Orkestra is a Canadian self-described "Balkan-Klezmer- Gypsy-Party-Punk-Super Band" based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Early history Founding member Mark Marczyk met bartender and musician Michael Louis Johnson in 2009 after returning to Toronto from Kyiv, Ukraine. Johnson introduced Marczyk to the Gypsy-punk band Worldly Savages. Marczyk joined them on fiddle. It was at after parties for the Savages' shows that eventual members of the band, such as Tangi Ropars and Os Kar, joined in on late-night jam sessions. Eventually, the concept for the band was solidified during a conversation between founding members Mark Marczyk and Tangi Ropars in a Vietnamese restaurant in Toronto. Other members began to join the band over the next few years, usually after seeing the group live. Many of these meetings were by chance or accident. By 2013, the group had swelled to 17 members. The group were also involved in a collective known as Fedora Upside Down, a collection of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Booker
Benjamin Booker (born Benjamin Roderick Evans; June 14, 1989) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist. He cites The Gun Club, Blind Willie Johnson and T. Rex as influences. His music was described by the ''Chicago Tribune'' as "a raw brand of blues/boogie/soul,", by ''The Independent'' as "frenzied guitar-strumming and raw, soulful vocals that are hair-raising in intensity" and by ''Spin'' as "bright, furious, explosive garage rock." Early life Benjamin Booker was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia. His family relocated to Tampa, Florida, where he attended all-ages DIY punk shows as a teenager. He attended Orange Grove Middle School, a magnet school for the performing arts, followed by Hillsborough High School, where he studied in the International Baccalaureate Program. He then attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, studying journalism with intentions of going into music journalism. After college, he moved to New Orleans to work for a non-profit orga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliott Brood
Elliott Brood (often stylized as Elliott BROOD) is a Canadian three-piece, alternative country band formed in 2002 in Toronto, consisting of Mark Sasso on lead vocals, guitar, banjo, ukulele, harmonica, and kazoo, Casey Laforet on guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals, bass pedals, keys, and ukulele, and Stephen Pitkin on percussion, sampler, and backing vocals. The band's style has been categorized as "death country", "frontier rock", or "revival music". History Mark Sasso and Casey Laforet grew up together in Windsor, and began playing as a band after moving to Toronto following high school. They played their first show in 2002 with two other musicians at Toronto club Holy Joes. Although the two other musicians dropped out of the band's lineup after a few shows, Sasso and Laforet continued as a duo, hooking up with producer Stephen Pitkin to record their first EP, ''Tin Type'', which was released in 2004. Tin Type was recorded over two days in Sasso's living room. The band cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curve Music
Curve Music is an independent record label based in Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. Artists Current artists * Suitcase Sam * Scott B. Sympathy * Pretty Archie * The Weight Band * Garth Hudson * Driveway (band), Driveway * Jack Connoly, Jack Connely * Holly McNarland * Lindsay Broughton * Tom Taylor (Singer), Tom Taylor * Western Swing Authority Former artists * The Dead South References External links * {{Authority control Indie rock record labels Canadian independent record labels Record labels established in 2002 2002 establishments in Ontario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock And Roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock 'n' roll, or rock 'n roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It originated from African-American music such as jazz, rhythm and blues, boogie woogie, gospel music, gospel, as well as country music. While rock and roll's formative elements can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s,Peterson, Richard A. ''Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity'' (1999), p. 9, . the genre did not acquire its name until 1954. According to journalist Greg Kot, "rock and roll" refers to a style of popular music originating in the United States in the 1950s. By the mid-1960s, rock and roll had developed into "the more encompassing international style known as rock music, though the latter also continued to be known in many circles as rock and roll."Kot, Greg"Rock and roll", in the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', published Encyclopædia Brita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
