Photo: Christian Kuntz
Yukon B&R Brandon Isaac folk & blues musician. Know where he'll be playing, and his latest news check out his website here: www.brandonisaak.ca
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Brandon Isaak
Issue: 2018-10-31, COVER ART: J.D. Sipe
Spiritual Undertones
It’s been a fairly typical autumn for bluesman Brandon Isaak. Typically busy, that is. The former Whitehorse musician spent most of September on tour in Germany and Holland, including an appearance at the prestigious Guitar Summit in Mannheim... Read more
Issue: 2015-03-05 PHOTO: Flo Whyard
The Yukon Transportation Museum is 25
A quarter century is a long time; however, 25 years ago the building the Yukon Transportation Museum (YTM) calls home was already old. The structure was originally built during World War II as a recreation centre for the Royal Canadian Air Force. Read more
Issue: 2015-02-26 PHOTO: Christian Kuntz Photography
Johnny Cash For Cancer
For anyone who has fallen into a burning ring of fire, who are boys named Sue, or who have been to Folsom Prison, in real life, or just in song, A Tribute To Johnny Cash, on Friday, February 27, at the Yukon Convention Centre, is for you. Read more
Converging Paths
Brandon Isaak is on the phone from Vancouver, freshly back from a tour of eastern China with his jump-blues band, The Twisters. “Every night, we had hundreds of screaming girls after the show, seeking autographs and pictures. We were just white ... Read more
April 10 Issue: Photo By Brandon Isaak
Blues Musician Brings it Back Home
Brandon Isaak is no stranger to the Yukon music scene. Being a native of Whitehorse, the folk musician says he has performed 34,676 hometown shows. “I’m still excited about every one as if it were my first,” he says. Read more
Heading to the Belly of the Blues
The Whitehorse and Vancouver-based musician is touring Vancouver's lower mainland, releasing a new album, and travelling to Memphis, Tennessee to participate in the largest blues gathering in the world. Read more
Hard-rocking Bluesman Goes Solo
Brandon Isaak is known as a hard-working, hard-rocking blues showman. Whether he's playing with his Vancouver-based jump band The Twisters or at the Gold Pan Saloon with The Whitehorse All-Star Blues Band, Isaak delivers a high-energy and Read more
A Signature Honour
Before meeting Kuppels, Isaak had never heard of Redemption Guitars (http://www.redemption-guitars.de). "There's so many small luthiers around, you can't keep track of everything. Now that I've played them, I love them. They're great guitars." Read more
Tunes for Food
Saturday night revellers at Foxy's Cabaret this weekend will be partying for a good cause. On that night, Foxy's will hold its first All Star Musical Food Drive. Read more
Singing the Alaska Highway
Brandon Isaak almost trashed his musical career before it even started. Isaak was in his early teens when his father, Yukon music legend Ed Isaak, returned from a road trip with a guitar for his son. Read more
A positive, family-friendly music festival
It seems that the busier Gary Bailie gets, the happier he is. The producer of the annual Blue Feather Music Festival 2009 receives every new task as proof that this ninth, annual event is coming together bigger and better than last year. Read more
School band has great friends
It is good to have friends ... especially when you are a music teacher and the band needs to raise money for repairs and new instruments. As a Facebook friend of Brandon Isaak, and having played with him from time to time, Jon Heaton was able to lin Read more
A grand-slam week for music lovers
If you are a lover of music, this is one fantastic week to be a Yukoner. Check it out: you have Justin Haynes, Jean Martin and Ryan Driver playing at The Old Fire Hall on Saturday; then Don Ross and Brooke Miller will be at the Yukon Arts Centre.... Read more
Rocking the Blues
Montréal native Ryan McNally has loved the blues since he was nine years old ... although if you grew up in his hometown you might not know it. Read more
Cool comes to Coasters
Donald Ray Johnson is perhaps the coolest man to ever come to Whitehorse. His award-winning voice, steeped in the blues and dripping with the richness of experience, slides over the phone line: "Hey man, how you doin'?" Read more