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Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Montréal, Piano, Pop, Québec, Songwriter, Voice May 13, 1998

Rufus Wainwright – Flamboyant Performer Keeps Up the Family Tradition

Versions of this article ran in Southam newspapers after May 13, including the Hamilton Spectator Nick Krewen If your parents were a pair of famous folk icons, you might just be a little intimidated about embarking on your own recording career. Not Rufus Wainwright. Already hailed by hip lifestyle magazine Details as “one to watch in ’98,” the Montreal-born piano-playing son of Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III (remember “Dead…

Bass, Cinema, Composer, Drums, Film Scores, Guitar, Mike Oldfield, Orchestra, Piano, Rock, Songwriter, Synthesizer, United Kingdom February 16, 1997

Mike Oldfield talks Songs of Distant Earth

NICK KREWEN Mike Oldfield, the British composer of Tubular Bells, the chart-topping 1973 instrumental album that revolutionized rock music and represented progressive rock at its most indulgent, sees future music entertainment as “a Salvadore Dali painting you can walk into.” Limited copies of his new album, Songs Of Distant Earth, contain a multi-media CD-ROM that he assembled midway through recording sessions, and Oldfield says he’s excited by new computer technology. “I…

Americana, Canada, Folk, Grammy, Guitar, JUNO, Montréal, Piano, Producer, Québec, Songwriter, Voice November 28, 1996

The McGarrigles’ Matapedia

  Nick Krewen Toronto Star Thursday, November 28, 1996   “We had no intention of turning professional. We didn’t even think of this as a career.” Anna McGarrigle is sitting at a table in one of the Lakeshore Boulevard offices of MCA Concerts Canada next to her older sister Kate, attempting to explain the anomaly that has resulted in seven highly respected albums and 20 years of wonderful folk music,…

Blues, Dance, Experimental, Funk, Grammy, Guitar, Minnesota, Oscar, Piano, Pop, Prince, Producer, R&B, Rock, Songwriter, Soul, United States, Voice November 20, 1996

Portrait of The Artist (Prince) As A Newly Free Man

Versions of this article for Southam News appeared in several Southam newspapers including The Windsor Star on November 20, 1996 PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A NEWLY FREE MAN   NICK KREWEN CHANHASSEN, Minnesota. The Artist Formerly Known As Prince  knows how to make a lasting impression. As the door to the conference room in his palatial Paisley Park Studios swings open, the man whose legal name is the unpronounceable…

Americana, Bob Dylan, Buddy Guy, Grammy, Guitar, John Hiatt, Nashville, Piano, Pop, Rock, Songwriter, United States, Voice November 10, 1995

John Hiatt: Walking The Streets Of Humanity

This feature appeared in the late, lamented on-line magazine MAGNET     JOHN HIATT: Walking The Streets Of Humanity   BY NICK KREWEN   At an age where some people stop cold in their tracks, take a deep breath and reassess their lives, John Hiatt is just coming into his prime. There’s not a drop of mid-life crisis in his veins. “I really like what I’m doing, ” announces the…