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Updated: Bruce finishes up in the studio
Our friend, Daniel Keebler from Gavin’s Woodpile recently paid Bruce a visit in the studio. Daniel has posted some photos and notes from the visit. See his post here: In The Studio with Bruce. The release date for the new album is March 1, 2011.
UPDATED: New photos and notes posted HERE
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Luminato Announces Canadian Songbook Artist Lineup for Bruce Cockburn Tribute
Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity, announces the full lineup for The Canadian Songbook: 40 Years of Bruce Cockburn concert on Wednesday, June 16, including Barenaked Ladies, Sylvia Tyson and Buck 65. Luminato takes place from June 11 – 20, 2010.
The Canadian Songbook Luminato pays tribute to the music of Canadian guitar-legend Bruce Cockburn as The Canadian Songbook returns for its third year at Massey Hall. Cockburn is joined by other renowned Canadian musicians who perform classics from Cockburn’s extensive 40-year musical catalogue. The Canadian Songbook is hosted by Jian Ghomeshi, with musical direction by Colin Linden, and produced in association with Massey Hall. The Canadian Songbook is presented by National Bank Financial Group. Wednesday, June 16, 7:30 PM at Massey Hall $55 – 85
Complete Artist Lineup:
Amelia Curran: Native of St. John’s, Newfoundland, and recent Juno Award-winner for her album Hunter Hunter.Barenaked Ladies: Canadian musical institution and multi-award-winning four-piece who just released their 11th studio album, All In Good Time.
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings: Juno Award-winning trio, Colin Linden, Stephen Fearing and Tom Wilson.
Buck 65: Canadian hip hop artist and radio host, whose sound incorporates blues, country, rock, and folk.
Bruce Cockburn: Canadian guitar legend, songwriter and activist, and the focus of Canadian Songbook.
Hawksley Workman: Prolific Canadian rock singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Jason Fowler: Toronto-based singer/songwriter, session guitarist and producer.
Michael Occhipinti: Eight-time Juno Award-nominee for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, also known for the album Songs of Bruce Cockburn featuring arrangements of Cockburn’s music.
Sylvia Tyson: A founding member of ‘60s landmark folk and country duo Ian & Sylvia, Juno Award-winner and member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
The Wailin’ Jennys: Juno Award-winning folk trio with members from Manitoba and New York..
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HarperCollins to Publish the Memoir of Celebrated Musician Bruce Cockburn
April 21, 2010, SAN FRANCISCO—HarperOne and HarperCollinsCanada announces today the forthcoming publication of celebrated singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn’s memoir, sold to HarperOne’s Senior Editor Roger Freet by Bernie Finkelstein—Cockburn’s 40 year management partner and founder of True North Records—of The Finkelstein Management Company. Cockburn’s long awaited memoir is set to publish in April 2012.
Since 1970, with 30 albums and numerous awards to his credit, Bruce Cockburn has earned high praise as an exceptional songwriter and pioneering guitarist, whose career has been shaped by politics, protest, romance, and spiritual discovery. His remarkable journey has seen him embrace folk, jazz, blues, rock, and worldbeat styles while travelling to such far-flung places as Guatemala, Mali, Mozambique, Afghanistan, and Nepal, and writing memorable songs about his ever-expanding world of wonders.
“Bruce’s decades-long devotion to social justice and spiritual depth is a perfect fit for our list. We’re excited to be publishing his memoir,” said SVP/Publisher, Mark Tauber.
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Bruce Cockburn will look back at Luminato
James Bradshaw / Globe and Mail
Forty years after his first solo album dropped, legendary Canadian artist Bruce Cockburn will take a look back at his storied career – live, with a little help from some friends.
The singer-songwriter is a headline attraction for Toronto’s fourth annual Luminato Festival in June, when he will join an array of other musicians to pay tribute to, well, himself. For the first time, The Canadian Songbook, a popular Luminato mainstay that gathers artists to celebrate a renowned Canadian musician with inventive covers of his or her work, will include the person being celebrated.
“ The first time I heard people do my stuff, it was a bit like the first time I heard my own voice played back to me from a tape recorder. You sort of go, ‘Whoa, that’s a totally weird perspective.’
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Earth Day Canada Environment Award
Earth Day Canada is pleased to honour Bruce Cockburn with this year’s Outstanding Commitment to the Environment Award. For three decades, Canadian singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn has been an outspoken voice on issues relating to the environment. He has performed benefit concerts in support of the Haida Nation and the Stein River Valley and their fights against logging; spoke out against the destruction of tropical rain forests and the Exxon oil spill off the Alaskan coast; narrated a television documentary on the Mali desert; acted as honorary chairperson of Friends of the Earth; and of course wrote the anthemic “If A Tree Falls”.
“The whole point of writing songs is to share experiences with people”, says Bruce, looking back on a career that includes 26 albums, numerous international awards, including the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Tenco Award for Lifetime Achievement in Italy, 20 gold and platinum records in Canada, and countless concert performances since he released his first solo work in 1970.
Born in Ottawa in 1945, Bruce set his sights on a career in music after growing up listening to Elvis records. He landed at Berklee College of Music in Boston in the early ’60s before moving back to Ottawa in 1965 to play in a series of rock bands. He eventually found his voice as a songwriter and developed a highly personal finger-picking guitar style that merged Mississippi John Hurt blues with modal jazz harmony, melodic lyricism and cycling rhythms.
Bruce was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1982 and was promoted to Officer in 2002. The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) inducted him into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame. He has also received numerous honorary doctorates for his contributions to music, culture and social activism. www.earthday.ca
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Luminato Press Conference
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Bruce Cockburn & Michael Ondaatje
A collaboration of music and words
TORONTO, 21 September 2009 – PEN Canada is thrilled to announce that Bruce Cockburn and Michael Ondaatje will appear onstage together in a rare collaboration of music and words at the Glenn Gould Studio on November 19. The two Canadian legends will give their fans a once in a life time opportunity to witness a unique artistic endeavour, as well as to see them share their thoughts on the joys and challenges of the creative life. CBC Radio Two’s Laurie Brown will host the evening. The event starts at 7:00 pm at Toronto’s Glenn Gould Studio. Tickets are $50 and can be purchase now by phone through Roy Thomson Hall at 416-872-4255, or online at www.roythomson.com.
“As an as organization that defends freedom of expression and advances literature and literary dialogue, we are extremely pleased,” says PEN Canada President Ellen Seligman, “to launch our 2009-2010 season of PEN events with Alice Munro and Diana Athill, followed by Michael Ondaatje and Bruce Cockburn in creative collaboration.”
The second event in PEN Canada’s fall literary lineup on November 19, will bring together two Canadian legends, Bruce Cockburn and Michael Ondaatje in a rare collaboration of music and words, with a conversation about the joys and challenges of the creative life. CBC Radio Two’s Laurie Brown will host the evening. The event will take place at Toronto’s Glenn Gould Studio at 7:00 pm. Tickets are $50 and are on sale now. This event is in honour of Constance Rooke (1942-2009), who was a past president of PEN Canada and a passionate advocate of freedom of expression and the arts.
Event proceeds will go to PEN Canada in support of its vital work on behalf of writers in prison, writers in exile, and freedom of speech.
About PEN Canada
PEN Canada is a centre of International PEN that campaigns on behalf of writers around the world persecuted for the expression of their thoughts. In Canada, it supports the right to free expression enshrined in Section 2(b) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In the past five years, PEN Canada has helped to free over 40 writers from prison. http://www.pencanada.ca.
About the IFOA
The International Festival of Authors was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize, Governor General’s Literary Awards, and Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize finalists, as well as the awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize. http://www.readings.org.
Via: Newswire.ca
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