Bobby Curtola is from Port Arthur, Ontario. By age fifteen Bobby was writing and playing songs in and around the Port Arthur area with his band Bobby and the Bobcats. By 1962 Bobby had three hit songs playing on radio… Continue Reading →
Jesse Cook is from Toronto, Ontario Jesse is a guitarist, composer, producer and is considered by most guitar aficionados as one of the greatest Nuevo Flamenco Guitarist in the world. His father was from France and his mother was from Toronto… Continue Reading →
George Canyon is from Hopewell, Nova Scotia. As a young boy he learned to play guitar and dreamed of being a ‘Country Music Star’. After all the normal life passages of school, marriage and making a living as a Bylaw… Continue Reading →
Joseph Armand Roch Voisine is from Edmunston, New Brunswick. Growing up Roch wanted to be a hockey player, but a serious leg injury and a long re-cooperation prevented him from continuing to play hockey at competition levels. As he re-cooperated in… Continue Reading →
Kathleen Edwards is from Ottawa, Ontario. Her father, Leonard, was a Canadian diplomat and her formative years were a mix of cultures and adventures in Korea and Switzerland. At age five, Kathleen began learning classical violin and studied violin for… Continue Reading →
Jann Arden Anne Richards is from Springback, Alberta. Her formative years were a normal Canadian teenager’s, school, dances, boys and studying guitar. Jann began her career playing in and around the Calgary area where she was discovered by Neil MacGongill,… Continue Reading →
Hank Snow is from Liverpool, Nova Scotia. In 1926 Hank signed on a fishing schooner and with his first cheque of $58.00 he sent away for a ‘Guitar and Chord Book’ – Total cost: $5.95 from the T. Eaton company in… Continue Reading →
Wilf Carter is from Port Hilford, Nova Scotia. Wilf is also known as ‘Montana Slim’ and ‘The Yodelling Cowboy’. At age 15, Wilf headed out west to Alberta and worked as a Lumberjack, while learning to play guitar. In a short… Continue Reading →