A blank page. I’m staring at a blank page. (ok, not anymore). A few words have appeared. It’s not the dearth of things to write about, it’s the overabundance.
Archive for Maia Van Raes
Pat Blythe – Airport hell, a grant gathering, CMW, Sam Taylor and a little Side Hustle
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Air Canada, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music Week, Chloe Doucet, CMW, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, FACTOR, Gals 'n Grants, International Women's Day, Jace Traz, Maia Van Raes, Monarch Pub, More Music Management, New Orleans, Ontario Arts Council, Pat Blythe, Pete Casey, Sam Taylor, Sam Taylor and the East End Love, Sauce on Danforth, Sheraton Centre Hotel, Side Hustle, SOCAN, Steve Grant, The Painted Lady, Toronto Arts Council, Toronto Pearson International Airport on March 14, 2018 by segarini
Flying the friendly skies…..nope grounded…..
Where to start….where to start. Loads of stuff going on, musically and otherwise. Let’s roll tape backwards. We’ll start with Air Canada’s GIANT, international debacle on Monday leaving thousands of people not high, but dry, at Toronto Pearson International Airport (not to mention the thousands across the world). System down…..the entire system…..worldwide. Now, I don’t know all the details, precise timing and the tiny little intricacies but I do know this, I dropped my friends off at the airport, heading south for their pre-wedding honeymoon, and ten hours later I’m picking them up from the same airport, tired, explosively furious and drained.
Pat Blythe – Rights, Nights, and Music
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags "Last Bullet", A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Beatrice Keeler, Bob Segarini, Cherry Cola's, Countermeasure, Crown Lands, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Horseshoe Tavern, Hot Lips, Jace Traz, Jacqui Childs, James Blonde, Kensington Market, Langston Francis, Lawrie Ingles, Lisa MacIntosh, Maia Van Raes, Nathan Phillips Square, Pat Blythe, Rivoli, Robbie Lane, Rose Theatre, Sam Taylor, Sam Taylor and the East End Love, SEEROCKLIVE, SING! Toronto, The Crooked, The Linsmore, Toronto Women's March, Zoomer Radio on January 24, 2018 by segarini
Okay, we’ll kick this off with the weather…..freezing cold, snowing, raining, freezing rain, sunny, cloudy, pluses and minuses all over the map, exploding pipes, sinkholes, warming trends, arctic air masses, blankets on, blankets off…..we’re screwed! Somebody make up their mind!!!! This keeps up I’m whipping out the 3″ summer sandals…..winter be damned!
Pat Blythe – Thoughts & Tyler Simmons, Beach Jazz Festival & Riverboat Mondays
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Annette Shaffer, Beaches International Jazz Festival, Berklee College, Bestival, Bob Segarini, Danforth Music Hall and House of Blues, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dora Keogh's, Drew Winters, Eddie Bullen, Elise LeGrow, Frank Zirone, Harry Styles, Jann Arden, Johnny Max, Julian Taylor, Kid Carson, Koerner Hall, London Bluesfest, Maia Van Raes, Matt Swift, Pat Blythe, Paul Sanderson, Quincy Bullen, Riverboat Monday, Sam Taylor, suicide, The Opera House., TURF, Tyler Ellis, Tyler Simmons on August 30, 2017 by segarini
My heart is heavy and my brain is trying to digest what has happened because it doesn’t make any sense. But then, suicide never does, at least not to the living. ….and so I start with the first new column in five weeks talking about a topic that has been highlighted in the news far too much lately……but the famous are not alone in their despair. I know, I know, not a very uplifting subject but it’s one that has hit precariously close to home…..twice in exactly one week.
Pat Blythe – Thoughts, James Blonde, Sam Taylor, Nefe & A Choir
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 1st Earl of Bath, A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Alex Rudi, Ann Thornton, Barbra Streisand, Bob Segarini, Brick By Brick, Cameron House, Canadian Welsh Singers, Cantorion Choir, Cathy Hart, Cherry Cola's, Chris Haystead, CMW 2016, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Don't Stop Me Now, Fitzrays, Glen Miller, Harry Belafonte, Harry Styles, James Blonde, Kenny MacLean, Lee's Palace, Longines Symphony Orchestra, Maia Van Raes, Nefe, Pat Blythe, Peter Bence, Piston, Platinum Blonde, Poultney, Sam Taylor, Sean MacLean, Secret Broadcast, Supermarket, Tyler Simmons, Waves That Stray, William Pulteney on June 7, 2017 by segarini
It’s a rainy Sunday and I’m supposed be working on piled up paperwork but another attack in England, this time on THE London Bridge has once again diverted my attention. The third one in as many months, I’m wondering exactly what these daft, obtuse thugs (I won’t give them the benefit of calling them terrorists) think they’re accomplishing?
Pat Blythe – 2016….Over and finally…..OUT!
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Alex Vincenzi, Barak Obama, Bill Dillon, BlackDog Ballroom, Bob Segarini, Bobby Curtola, Carmen Toth, Cherish Stevenson, Cherry Cola's, CMW, Courage My Love, David Marsden, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drop Rock and Roll, Greg Godovitz, Grover Cleveland, Hugh's Room, James Blonde, Lawrie Ingles, luvthemusic, Maia Van Raes, Mark Murphy, Matt Groopie, Mike Pellarin, Nick Krewen, Pat Blythe, Peter Nunn, rancho relaxo, Richard Carson, Richard Flohil, Rival Sons, Sam Taylor, Sam Taylor and the East End Love, Secret Broadcast, Steve Kendry, The Anti Queens, The Crown, The Dick Clark Five, The Hard Rock Cafe, The Honeyrunners, The Keg, The King Beez, The Paddock, Tony Nolasco, Toronto Star, Torstar, Xprime on January 11, 2017 by segarini
Well…..here it is already…..2017! Blink and both Christmas and New Year’s Eve are over, a fait accompli. Phffft….gone! Tout fini! Finito! Done and dusted! ….and here we are…. Has much changed? No, not really. Resolutions? Nope. Heading to the gym? Not on your life!!! The dance floor suits me just fine. Focus? I’m working on it. Oh look, a shiny thing……
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 