Deals with the Anaatquuq
As a musician, you put yourself out there in the public and you have to be ready to appease your...
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Guitar
Home Routes provides a cozy evening of music
The 2018–19 season of Home Routes Concerts kicked off in September with a tour by country singer Tim Hus, accompanied by his sideman of 15 years, Spider Bishop.Hus, on vocals and guitar, is reminiscent of a younger incarnation...
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Gordie Tentrees previews new album
Making his seventh album was the most fun Gordie Tentrees has had as a musician, but it didn’t start out that way.
Read MoreReturn to the Yukon
It’s been 30 years, or thereabouts, since I first ran into the iconic Canadian folksinger-songwriter-poet who goes by the simple – but exotic-sounding – name of Ferron.There was no reason she should remember me. I was just a...
Read MoreMaking Music and Money for Good Causes
You never quite know how the monthly coffee house/open mic sessions in the KIAC ballroom at the Odd Fellows Hall are going to go.For several months recently the evenings have started out with Peter Menzies leading a group of...
Read MoreRemembering Lenny
If you’re doing a stage show about a highly-admired guitarist, being able to render the music isa big help. Fortunately, Whitehorse musician Nicholas Mah has been playing the music of his dramatic subject, the late Lenny...
Read MoreOut of the Rec Room
Scott Wilson doesn’t credit either ’50s TV host Arthur Godfrey or campy falsetto Tiny Tim with the current popularity of the humble ukulele.Instead, the Whitehorse musician thinks it likely stems from a few years...
Read MoreDuncan Sinclair – Instrument of Change
Your first perception of Duncan Sinclair may be of a reserved, buttoned-down guy – a civil servant, most likely.You wouldn’t be wrong. Sinclair spent decades in the territorial public service, rising through the ranks...
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