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Anvil brought a serious shred fest to Owen Sound

  • August 1, 2025
  • Tom Thwaits
“…Kick it out, with no doubt, shout it out, that’s what it’s all aboutBecause it’s true, through and through, dreams come true, it’s what we doLiving the moment, energy around,…
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Sonic Cities: the electronic music scene is thriving in Grey Bruce Simcoe

  • May 14, 2025
  • Tom Thwaits
Something unexpected is happening in Collingwood and Owen Sound.  There’s a critical mass of DJs in these bayside towns that the parties concerned have organized into the Georgian Bay DJ…
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The story of the Great Lakes Jam

  • August 4, 2024
  • Tom Thwaits
This story begins with a father, Steward Madill, sending his son into a bush lot in the hills of Balaclava to see if its timber was worth the investment. The…
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Grey Bruce’s connection to rock royalty

  • March 15, 2023
  • Tom Thwaits
Consider the following: A life sized elephant paper mâché stage prop “taken for a walk” down the tracks by a drummer and a roadie until they have to ditch it…
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Louie Rankin: The Original Don Dada

  • September 13, 2022
  • Tom Thwaits
On September 28th 2019, Louie ‘Ox’ Rankin, aka Teddy Bruck Shot aka the original Don Dada, posted on Instagram that he had an “album bout to drop!!!” A day later, he…
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Expo ’67, Summerfolk & the Guggenheim: Beverly Glenn Copeland’s legacy of music

  • February 24, 2022
  • Tom Thwaits
” Trans- a word-forming element meaning “across, beyond, through, on the other side of , to go beyond” from the Latin trans, perhaps originally the present participle of a verb…
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