The Clever Pup

The Twelve Days of Christmas On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me A partridge in a pear tree. On the second d...

No, this isn't Helen Mirren in a red wig. It's the fabulous Canadian singer and harpist, Loreena McKennitt. We have a long traditi...

Bob Dylan's first studio album came out 50 years ago this year. Amnesty International is also commemorating fifty years since its ince...

I went to see Gordon Lightfoot last night at Toronto's Massey Hall. Lightfoot plays Massey Hall every spring and he's played there ...

The answer my friend is hedge-fund manager Adam Sender The answer is hedge-fund manager Adam Sender. Mr. Sender outbid 5 others in orde...

Happy 69th Birthday, Mr. Bob. Milton Glaser, 1967

Wait for it... at about the 3:35 mark Prince appears and reminds me that despite his flakiness that he is a great guitar player. That is ...

Starry, starry night. Paint your palette blue and grey, Look out on a summer's day, With eyes that know the darkness in my soul. Sh...

March 7 we were a no-guitar household. March 8 we were a 1-guitar household. March 28 we are a 2-guitar household. Godin SD22. Epiphone ...

Here I am blathering on about another movie. We watched Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story again on the weekend and I just caught myself singi...

Well, that was something. The biggest production I’ve ever seen. Junior Pup and I got there first after walking completely around “The Dome”...

Gee, I can hardly concentrate. I won't be in Chicago but I will be at Toronto's Roger's Centre tomorrow night to see U2. I'...

So how does it feel, Bob To be on your own With no direction home Like a complete unknown? Oh, dear. Bob Dylan, who is like the fifth member...

© 2009 Festival of the Sound The summer I was 17 the “festival” came to town. I was working at a shop at the Parry Sound Mall when a man wi...

I awoke this morning to Paolo Conte on the radio - Jazz FM 91.1 - singing Via Con Me , also known in our household as the S'wonderful s...

Pop Plaque Plan Rocks Classicists Thus rean a headline in the London Times of 16 March 1995. The Handel House Trust, headed by Dr. Stanley ...

So - the concert. We had good seats in the centre balcony. I thought Husband-pup had merely won the tickets in a raffle – he had sprung the ...

I’m going to see Tafelmusik tonight performing selections from Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. Tafelmusik is one of the world’s best cha...

I woke up thinking about The Band, and the first song that I heard on the radio this morning was by The Band, portents leading me to write a...

The opera "Brundibár" was written by a Jewish Czech composer Hans Krása in 1938. In 1942, he was deported to Terezín (or Theresien...