The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 954: The Trews, in their own words
When a band first comes together, there’s little expectation that this could become a long-term endeavor. Being a professional musician
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Burlington’s Sound of Music Festival is back for 2022. Here’s the lineup (so far)
After a couple of years of being sidelined by COVID, Sound of Music, Canada’s largest free music festival, returns to
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The next edition of #UnpluggedTogether is TONIGHT with The Trews, Corey Hart, and Gord Sinclair
[I’m involved in a program designed to help survivors of trauma like war and extreme poverty through music therapy. Here’s
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The Trews play that small coffee shop outside of Ottawa.
[Another dispatch from Ross Macdonald, a frequent customer of the unique Neat Coffee Shop. – AC] Although Neat is called
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I battle The Trews to see who can handle the hottest chicken wings
Last week, I appeared on a podcast called Hot Wings, an interview program where the guests chat about things whilst
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Behold photos from this acoustic Trews show in a tiny coffeehouse
[Ross McDonald has been covering some of the shows played in an somewhat unlikely venue outside of Ottawa. Here’s the
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The Trews are using Zoom to livestream shows
Artists are very, very quickly learning how to use various livestream/video meeting technologies to get their music out there. The
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Random Music News for Friday, October 27, 2017
No, daylight saving time doesn’t end this weekend. You’ll have to wait another week before falling back. And now that
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Reminiscing and Record Shopping with The Trews
[Another fine interview from frequent contributor, Andrew Epstein. – AC] by Andrew Epstein The first time I interviewed The Trews
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Random Music News for Wednesday, July 15, 2015
On this day in 2003, Netscape died and was replaced by Mozilla. Sinead O’Connor thinks that music has died. She
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Here’s a Chance to Help Musicians in Need
A couple of years ago, a new non-profit charity was launched with the aim of helping Canadian musicians who have
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