Rodney Brown - sings LIGHTFOOT!
UpFront Gallery & Café
313 Front St, Belleville, ON K8N 2Z9, Canada
Ontario
44.1669428
-77.38540680000001
Description
Pineapple Productions is pleased and proud to present Rodney Brown sings Lightfoot in our UpFront Cafe 'listening room' concert setting. We're eager to bring back Northwestern Ontario stalwart performer Rodney Brown to follow up his amazing 2023 appearance here.
"We've watched Rodney Brown produce album after album of great music for decades - and I'm super-stoked to get him in front of the kind of 'listening' audience this area is famous for."
Rodney Brown has built a career singing roots, rock, reggae and kids songs - exploring sounds and recording albums that reflect each phase. With a career spanning 40 years he has released 11 albums and toured extensively across Canada the US and the UK. His song Somebody Give Me A Job was heralded as the "National Anthem for the 1980's" by the Winnipeg Folk Festival.
His latest venture has seen him develop a catalogue of Gordon Lightfoot songs which he has been presenting in tribute, impressively backed up by the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra. He's bringing that catalogue to Belleville for this show.
Following performances on CBC's, Morningside, Touch the Earth, Simply Folk and Country Roads established performers like Daisy Debolt, Tom Jackson, Heather Bishop and Kim Deschamps began to include his songs in their repertoires. The CBC, TVO, Monitor North, and Kam Theatre began to commission songs from him.
Rodney's 2001 release Into the Woods marked his return to the national folk music circuit. While touring with the Northern Roots Band and Ian Tamblyn he began researching early stories of his hometown's namesake William McGillivray and The Big Lonely CD was born. His historical songs about the Canadian fur trade have taken him across Canada, the Upper American mid west and to the UK for Witney's, Journey of a Blanket Project. His songs gained even more international recognition after a performance for CBC's, Vinyl Café with host Stuart McLean.
The past decades have seen Rodney record a list of outstanding albums. His latest effort Songs of Fort William with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra [2012] follows the success of North Land [2009] and the highly acclaimed, Big Lonely [2004].
Spanning a forty year career of songwriting, performing and recording Rodney has donned many musical persona's but these days he writes mostly about his home on the North Shore of Lake Superior. His songs paint evocative pictures combined with excellent musicianship and the skills of a veteran performer. Rodney has earned a dedicated and growing fan base.
"Rodney Brown is back into the mainstream of Canadian Singer Songwriters. He was part of that first wave along with Stan Rogers, Murray McLauchlan and Bruce Cockburn. Brown played all the major Canadian festivals and toured the length of the country. He has a real sense of place in his songwriting - he lives and writes about Northwestern Ontario. And I love hearing Canadian place names in songs. Especially good songs.... " - Les Siemieniuk CBC's DNTO and Canada's national folk magazine, Penguin Eggs.
Check out Rodney's cover of Gordon Lightfoot's If You Could Read My Mind.
PLEASE NOTE: Advance Tickets are available online only until midnight Tuesday, April 30. Advance Tickets are not available on the day of the show. At-the-door Tickets are $30 (cash only).
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Start:
2024-05-01T18:00:00-04:00
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2024-05-01T20:00:00-04:00
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