Currently celebrating its twelfth season in Vancouver, Bluebird North: Where Writers Sing and Tell is one of the city’s best showcases for live music and local songwriting talent, with multiple dates set aside to showcase different artists. No Bluebird is quite like any other – so don’t miss out!
Bluebird North Vancouver is proud to welcome Toronto-based singer-songwriter and producer Blair Packham to the Roundhouse stage, where he will be joined by such local luminaries as Coco Love Alcorn, Kelly Brock and Craig Northey (The Odds). Four Canadian songwriters with widely varying musical styles and influences…one stage…an informal, “unplugged” atmosphere…instant performance magic.
When, where, and how much?
Thursday February 7, 2008 @ The Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (Corner of Davie & Pacific), 7:30 pm, Tickets $12. For more Information, call (604) 224-6201
Performer Bio’s are:
Coco Love Alcorn - Since the release of her self-titled debut CD in 1995, Coco’s career has included a number of personal highlights. She has a longstanding touring and recording relationship with Canadian music icons 54.40. She was discovered by folk legend Ani DiFranco, and subsequently invited to join her USA tour as the opening act. She has enjoyed multiple song placements on popular American TV shows like The Dead Zone (USA Network) and The L Word (Showtime). Coco has crisscrossed Canadawww.cocolovealcorn.com numerous times in her own right, and has five albums under her own name and two electronica side projects. She has appeared on close to 50 albums as a featured guest or backing vocalist. The long list of artists she’s worked with on stage or in the studio includes Chantal Kreviazuk, Jesse Cooke, Chin Injeti, Kinnie Starr & Loudon Wainwright III.
Kelly Brock has produced four successful and critically acclaimed independent CD recordings; her latest, Rebel Kind, is currently being distributed by Warner Music Canada. Kelly’s music videos have received rotation on MuchMoreMusic and CMT Canada and her songs have been featured on such popular TV programs as Dawson’s Creek, Smallville, Joan of Arcadia and the Surreal Gourmet. Brock has been nominated twice for Best Female Artist in the Georgia Straight Reader’s Choice Awards; she has also been nominated at the West Coast Music Awards and, most recently, for four BCCMA Awards including SOCAN Songwriter of the Year. She has had the pleasure of working with Barney Bentall, Dustin Bentall and Barry Mathers of the Cruzeros who all contributed back-ground vocals on her new CD, Rebel Kind. She also recently played on the same bill as Spirit of the West and has worked in the studio with Chad Kroeger, Brian Howes (Hinder, Avril Lavigne, Hedley) and Mike Reno. www.kellybrock.com
Craig Northey - Born February 9th, 1962, right wing, shoots right, #21 Vancouver Bombers. Having missed the 1980 NHL entry draft by never actually playing hockey that year, Craig set out to perfect his game and had a “respectable showing” at tryouts for the “Guadalajara Pilones” before landing in senior men’s division 3 in North Vancouver (Peyote is not good on game day). There was a hiccup in the middle of Craig’s development where he got lost in a dark, swirling tunnel of booze, late nights and corruption known as the “music business”. Happy now to be playing music and ignoring the music business he relies on the odd fluke of fate, pure animal cunning and a wife in the health care profession to keep his family afloat. Despite a busy hockey schedule he has found time to write and record a new album with “the New Odds” that will “drop” in spring. www.craignorthey.com
Blair Packham started out wanting to be Paul McCartney. Then he wanted to be Curtis Mayfield, before the lighting truss fell on Curtis. He then wanted to be either John Prine or Steve Goodman, though probably John Prine, because Steve Goodman had leukemia. Later, he wanted to be the lead singer of a band called The Jitters and had some success at this, between 1981 and 1991, with hits including “Last of the Red Hot Fools” and “’Til the Fever Breaks”. After that, Blair decided he wanted to just be Blair Packham, so he released his solo debut, Everything That’s Good, in May 2001. The Toronto Star called it “superbly-crafted…tuneful, honest, sharp-witted, and performed with style and confidence”. In 2003, Blair wrote and recorded the followup disc, Could’ve Been King, in Vancouver with Craig Northey and the rest of the Odds. In 2005, Blair co-produced “What Ever Happened to Christmas” with Ron Sexsmith for Andy Kim; the song hit Number Five on the national charts. Blair continues to want to be Blair, but sometimes thinks being Craig Northey might be cool. Then he remembers he doesn’t really like hockey, and puts that idea away. www.blairpackham.com
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