(Tim Harrison, NowOnGabriola.com)
That's as good a description as I've heard of the material I include
in my performances.
I don't write songs, and that leaves me completely free to choose songs to perform that both
audience members and I love.
I try my damnedest to have at least a song or two at
hand to honour the tastes of each and every audience member:
- New songs and old songs
- Mostly hits, and songs that fit nicely with the hits
- Lots of Canadian content
- Lots of songs that most people would find easy to sing along with
I've been a performing musician for more than 50 years now. While I've played
in many ensembles performing music in a variety of genres, solo performing
has always been at the core of what I do.
My solo shows consist of me singing and playing guitar, with a bit of 'ukulele
thrown in sometimes. In band settings, I also perform on bass guitar, lap steel
guitar, and mandolin.
Where I've Performed
Over the last twenty years or so:
- Food and coffee establishments:
- Robert's Place, Gabriola, BC
- Raspberry's Jazz Cafe, Gabriola, BC
- Superior Cafe, Victoria, BC
- Solstice Cafe, Victoria, BC
- Spiral Cafe, Victoria, BC
- Black Stilt Coffeehouse, Victoria, BC
- James Bay Coffee and Books, Victoria, BC
- Blethering Place, Oak Bay, BC
- Stick In The Mud Coffeehouse, Sooke, BC
- Paggliaci's, Victoria, BC
- Old Crow, Gabriola, BC
- Bars and nightclubs:
- Skol Pub, Gabriola, BC
- Swan's Pub, Victoria, BC
- The Roxy, Vancouver, BC
- Bard and Banker Pub, Victoria, BC
- Irish Times Pub, Victoria, BC
- Gorge Pointe Pub, Victoria, BC
- Waterwheel Pub, Langford, BC
- James Bay Inn Pub, Victoria, BC
- Festivals:
- Vancouver Island Musicfest, Courtenay, BC
- Filberg Festival, Comox, BC
- Gabriola Theatre Festival, Gabriola, BC
- Islands Folk Festival, Duncan, BC
- Folkfest, Victoria, BC
- Luminera, Victoria, BC
- Northwest Folklife Festival, Seattle, WA
- World Next Door Festival, Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Lunenberg Folk Harbour Festival, Lunenberg, NS
- Festival By The Sea, St John, NB
- Miramichi Folksong Festival, Miramichi, NB
- Festival of the Written Arts, Sechelt, BC
- Vancouver Wooden Boat Festival, Vancouver, BC
- Moss Street Paint-In, Victoria, BC
- Saltwater, Sidney, BC
- First Night, Vancouver, BC
- First Night, Victoria, BC
- Folk clubs:
- Victoria Folk Music Society, Victoria, BC
- Nanaimo Folk Connection, Victoria, BC
- Coffeehouse on Gabriola, Gabriola, BC
- Sooke Folk Club, Sooke, BC
- Deep Cove Folk Club, Saanichton, BC
- Jericho Folk Club, Vancouver, BC
- Rasputin's, Ottawa, ON
- Rocky Mountain Folk Club, Calgary, AB
- Miscellaneous:
- BC Ferries Summer Entertainment
- Gabriola Arts Tour, Gabriola, BC
- Nanaimo street entertainer
- Public markets
- House concerts
- Private conventions
- Private parties
- Past Instructor, Georgia Strait Guitar Workshop
- Member, Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association
- Member, Gabriola Chamber Ensemble
- Past Member, Gettin' Higher Choir
Photo: Sam McDonald