Beer giant shocked by Lund criticism
Anger among the province’s craft beer devotees over country music singer Corb Lund’s toasting Budweiser’s Alberta pedigree has surprised a spokesman for the brewing titan.
(Sun)
In The ‘Prison Capital Of Canada,’ A Group Of Musicians Recorded An Album From Behind Bars
Pros and Cons, a grassroots music-making initiative that gives inmates the tools, instruments and confidence to showcase their talent, has taken old in Ontario, Canada, where restorative programs have taken a hit in recent years. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images
(PBS)
Métis artist says visual storytelling gives people a voice
As a Métis woman, she said her people have a huge role to play in building relationships in a time where people really need to come together and learn to communicate. Especially, given their history and all the stories they have to share.
(CBC)
P.E.I. musician Nathan Condon dies
“Nathan was a very sweet, kind soul who touched so many lives both with his music and as a person,” said Oakie. “He was always willing to give and help out whenever he could, always supportive and just a kind and decent person who made you feel good.”
(CBC)
The Guess Who founding member suffers ‘serious’ stroke
Chad Allan, an icon of Canadian music and founding member of the Guess Who is recovering in a British Columbia hospital after suffering a stroke.
(CBC)
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Hi, garf. How are things on the Trumpless side of the Atlantic?
not too bad but remember we have Teresa the Appeaser and the clown posse leading us to
hellBrexitWell… World affairs could be boring…
Sky to stop broadcasting rightwing US channel Fox News in UK
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/aug/29/sky-to-stop-broadcasting-rightwing-us-channel-fox-news-in-uk?CMP=fb_gu
Greetings and salutations! Some interesting ICYMI news today, the craft brewers outrage over Corb Lund was surprising, but I’m not familiar with the situation (aside from the story above, that is)
afk brb*
*kids, ask your parents
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Re Corb Lund: “Lund’s participation in Budweiser’s Alberta Made campaign has drawn the ire of some smaller brewers and their customers, who argue the musician is selling out and undermining the provincially based outfits.”
a) What he does is absolutely none of their concern. “Selling out” is an awful, trite, and hard-to-defend-against slag. As is pointed out, Lund is in business.
b) Are Alberta’s small brewers so fragile that Corb Lund (an Albertan) being associated with Bud in an ‘Alberta-made’ campaign will “undermine” them??? Really? Sell me another bridge, that one’s stale.
@Benoit, those were my questions too. Small brewers have an uphill climb, compared to the big companies (not unlike indie musicians compared to mainstream artists, I suppose), but surely they don’t expect the big companies to not advertise, and to not partner with Alberta spokespeople.
I am reminded of the big hoopla back in the day with KD Lang and the Alberta ranchers.
Yes! Apparently country musicians from Alberta can’t be vegetarians either!
I are back
Me too.
Crazy days. I am a bit scattered all over the place.
How’s things?
where did you go?
I went to pick up my meds (that I just remembered I still have not taken) and got side tracked by the PS4
edited from yesterdays comments
[Mondays’ visit] went quite well, I hadn’t seen her for 15 years or so and I got to meet her kids for the first time, The best/worst bit was when we came to leave the dog wanted to stay behind, we walked towards the gate he went back in the house,
Oh I am just here at work but away from the blog. Nice that you got to visit. Did you leave the dog behind? hehe
No but Stephen had to put the dogs leader to get him into the car. I think he had missed being around kids. Apparently when we took her son out to pick up some pizza her daughter decided to lie on the floor next to Benji and he put his paw over her.
Aww so cute.
He was in love with the little girl by the time we came to leave, but that could be down to all the pizza she kept dropping.
Bribery helps. haha!
Benji has always been a cheap date
A treat especial for those that visit late in the day with a video I shot in 2009 and only just rediscovered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIA7YD8m7s4
Feel free to click through to see the details and just how bad my typing and proof reading was before I started talking to Benoit