Entertainment / Music Musician rewards patient fans with intimate collection of dark-edged folk tunes. HANDOUT PHOTO David Rawlings and Gillian Welch play Toronto’s Phoenix on Monday. Nick Krewen Special To The Star, Published on Sun Jul 24 2011 The drought is over. The prayers of Gillian Welch disciples who have been pining for a new album since 2003’s Soul Journey were answered a few weeks back with the release of the New York City…
Entertainment / Music Celebrity bitch-fight, eh Jann? Jann Arden performs at Massey Hall on Jan. 27, 2010. Nick Krewen Special to the Star, Published on Thu Jan 28 2010 Celebrity bitch-fight, eh Jann? It was during the Q&A portion of her opening four-night residency at Massey Hall when someone in the audience asked Alberta songbird Jann Arden if she would be appearing on this year’s revival of Lilith Fair, the all-female concert…
Nick Krewen The Hamilton Spectator NEED TO KNOW: GORDON LIGHTFOOT at Hamilton Place, Sunday, November 10 (1998) at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $32, $29 and $26 and available at the Hamilton Place and Copps Coliseum box offices, or by calling TicketMaster at 645-5000 When Gordon Lightfoot performs at Hamilton Place this Sunday, it will eerily coincide with one of the great disasters in Canadian history. November 10, 1975,…
Folk Artist Digs Through Woody Guthrie Archives Nick Krewen Music, The Toronto Star July 27, 1998 Mention the name Woody Guthrie and visions of a serious, poker-faced dust bowl balladeer spring to mind. Whether it’s such socially and politically charged anthems as “Vigilante Man,” “Do-Re-Mi,” or his most famous classic “This Land Is Your Land,” the Oklahoma-born Guthrie is indelibly etched in American folklore as the premier musical biographer of…
Singer, Writer Can Cram Lots Into A Tiny Tune NICK KREWEN Hamilton Spectator January 14, 1998 She plys her trade as a songwriting folksinger, but perhaps Dar Williams might consider an alternate career as an economist. You can choose virtually any song from the 30-year-old’s exceptional three album catalogue — say “When I Was A Boy,” her timeless paean to tomboyish innocence that kicks off…
