This week:
SAT. FEB 28th - MARTY ALLEN & DAVE TUFFORD
Where:
The Anchorage, 186 Ricardo St. Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, 905-468-2141
When: every Saturday night 9:45ish - no cover
Here's what I know about Marty Allen. He's the real deal.
"Honky-tonk and Rockabilly music is as much about life as it is about music.
Southern Ontario artist Marty Allen, named after the late Marty Robbins, was born into a blue-collared middle class family and weaned on Sun Record artists Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. “It was a simple sound, yet energetic and commanding” states Allen who received his first guitar at the age of eight. Although not musicians themselves, his parents possessed a real love for music. “There was always music playing in the house and Sunday mornings we would hear the gospel music crackling from the hi-fi”.
After graduating “honky-tonk 101” Marty went on to form his own band playing the taverns and beer-joints. He has released four independent albums since then: Daybreak’s Coming (2000), Marty Allen (2001), Living Life (2002), Blue Church Road (2005) receiving airplay and performing various festivals.
In 2006 Marty joined up with Dave Tufford and Bill Culp of “Good Rockin’ Tonight” the Sun Record Story, to perform a tribute to Johnny Cash and has performed many theatres in Ontario including the prestigious Mississauga Living Arts Centre. Allen is currently working on new material for future release and can be found playing to fans and winning the unconverted over with his band the Cadillac Cowboys."
One of my oldest musical friends is multi-instrumentalist Conrad Kipping. From the late 70's onward we played hundreds of gigs together and actually the very first time I played in NOTL, it was as a duo with Conrad. Although he's been our guest at the Anchorage a couple of times several years ago, we rarely get to see each other much these days due to geographical logistics. Anyway, a long while back Conrad kept telling me about this amazing guitarist he met on a gig named Dave Tufford. He said I would love his playing. Years later I finally did get to hear him play when he and Conrad were part of Mary DeKeyser's Melody Ranch (playing every Saturday in Toronto at the Brunswick and later the Hard Rock) and Conrad was right. This guy's really great!
I've since had the pleasure of working with Dave a couple of times and he's even been our guest at the Anchorage once. I've always wanted to get him back. So this is really going to be a treat!
Hope you can join us for some real down home roots music.
Coming up...
Tues. April 14th - NRS will be performing at the Niagara Music Awards Ceremony
Niagara Centre for the Arts, Niagara Falls.
and at the Anchorage: The Niagara Rhythm Section with special guests:
Mar 7th - John Dickie
Mar 14th - John Mays
Mar 21st - Denis Keldie & Neil Chapman
Mar 28 - Terry Blersh
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