Peterborough-based musician Nick Ferrio has a brand new video out called "Come Hell or High Water", directed by Rob Viscardis. It's from his forthcoming album Amongst the Coyotes and Birdsongs, due out May 28. The video was filmed in the beautiful Trent Nature area, Ferrio tells PTBOCanada. The single can be pre-ordered here. Watch the video below...
Great fundraiser for Camp Kerry...
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A new Kickstarter campaign has been launched for The Radius Project, which was born out of a simple question: "So which famous people would I know from your hometown?" The hometown in question is Peterborough and the answer was endless. Directed by music photographer and director Michael Hurcomb and produced by Mexican Cheesus—the team behind the hit web music video series Bandwagon—the Radius Project looks at the wealth of musicians that came from the radius around a small town and went on to national and international acclaim. A short list of people that grew up or relocated to the area are Neil Young, Thousand Foot Crutch, Royal Wood, Three Days Grace, My Darkest Days, Cale Gontier (Art of Dying / Thornley), I Mother Earth, Greg Keelor, Ronnie Hawkins, The Leahys (and Natalie McMaster), producers Greg and Rob Wells, Sebastian Bach and Serena Ryder.
photo by Michael Hurcomb
The doc will feature one on one interviews with some of these artists about their experiences here, a look into how a small city and the surrounding towns created so many acclaimed artists, interviews with outsiders looking at what makes a music scene work, a history of the music scene, interviews with some local legends, and a look at the future.
I Mother Earth photo by Michael Hurcomb
The Radius Project team wants to make this documentary look and sound as great as possible. They want to use the high quality gear they have, rent some external gear, have an essential and talented shooting team, and travel when necessary for interviews.
Metric at PMC by Michael Hurcomb
Watch a teaser campaign video here...
Click here to to help with the Kickstarter campaign. You can find the Radius Project on Facebook here, Twitter here and more info on their website. We interviewed the Radius Project's Michael Hurcomb on a recent episode of PTBOCanada Live With Mike Judson. Click here to watch it.
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Peterborough-based songwriter Melissa Payne has a new album out High and Dry, her second full-length album. Payne and her five-piece band play with passion and graceful restraint that speaks to the ebb-and-flow pacing of life, especially the Millennial-age relationships and struggles that inspired much of her writing on the album.
"Bring Me Back", the second single off of High & Dry—which she performed on Episode 4 of PTBOCanada Live With Mike Judson—was produced by Blue Rodeo's Greg Keelor and James McKenty from Seventh Fire Records. The song was a natural choice for Melissa and videographer Rob Viscardis to put to film and you'll see why in this excellent video below...
The Peterborough Folk Festival and Peterborough DBIA are presenting a Downtown Music Crawl Saturday, February 21st. It will feature as series of "Pop-Up" shows in downtown businesses. It starts at 1 pm, is for all ages and is FREE!
1:00pm - Sam Allison - Bluestreak Records (444 George St N)
2:00pm - Blues in the Bottle - Needle in the Hay (385 Water St)
3:00pm - Kennedy Cult - Plush Boutique (384 George St N)
4:00pm - Melissa Payne - Le Petit Bar (399 Water St)
5:00pm - Sean Conway - Sam's Place (188 Hunter St)
***There is an After-Party at the Gordon Best Theatre with Sean Conway and his Post Modern Cowboys. 9:00pm - All Ages - $10 per ticket.
Melissa Payne, who appeared on Episode 4 of our podcast PTBOCanada Live With Mike Judson recently, also performed on Soundwave Studios' Toque Session series. Check her out below performing with local musicians Matt Greco and Christopher Culgin...
There's something in the musical water here too...
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