It’s been a busy month and summer feels like it is just around the corner. Music Theatre Mississauga held their annual Encore Series Awards Night on Friday May 11 at Meadowvale Theatre.  It was a night to celebrate the 2011-2012 musical theatre season and to hear some great music.  Two performances from each show, plus [...]

The first weekend of May is a BUSY one, folks! SIX STRING MOJO (MAY 4): A side-project of mine, along with Mike Robitaille and Danny Serbin of the Weathered Kings, is Six String Mojo (SSM).  You will remember we debuted at Lucy’s in Mississauga back in February and we’ve had a number of gigs in Mississauga [...]

Hi, Everyone! Today is your “lucky” day — Weathered Kings is playing at Less Than Level in Oakville at 381 Kerr St.  It’s a cool lounge/club atmosphere with plenty of dance floor. The band starts at 10pm with a $5 cover charge.  Hope to see you there.

Hi, Everyone!   There are three gigs happening this week: March 28: Six String Mojo is playing … an elementary school (!)  Myself, Mike and Danny are playing at my niece and nephew’s school in Georgetown as part of a fundraiser for the school. March 30: Weathered Kings return to the Drake n Firkin in Mississauga.  [...]

Notice to Reader: the following contains explicit description of guitars (aka “gear porn”).  Discretion is advised. I had heard about the following guitar online, having received an email from Rare Guitars, containing suggestive and provocative pictures of the Eastwood Classic 6 Limited Edition Greenburst guitar.  So, I was in Georgetown, Ontario this afternoon, visiting my [...]

Hi, Everyone!  Lots of activity here at playD.ca this month.  I am finishing up scoring a short film called The Prospector’s Curse by Josh Heisie and I am also starting on Origin: A Call To Minds (a 3D animated feature) by David Krupicz. Also, plenty of Weathered Kings, Blackboard Blues Band and Six String Mojo [...]

A short film I scored called The Devil Walks Among You by Ryan M. Andrews, has been announced as an official selection of the 2012 Bare Bones Film Festival.  The festival takes place April 13-22 in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

An updated version of IK Multimedia’s Amplitube has been released (v 3.71). It uses 30% less CPU and 35% less RAM !!! I love the tones of this guitar modeling software, but it’s always been a bit of a hog (tough to get more than 3 or 4 instances in a project without bouncing to [...]

2011 was a very full year — two short films and one feature film were completed and many, many live shows with Weathered Kings, Blackboard Blues Band, Age of Reason as well as the debut of my new duo, Six String Mojo.  I played in a number of theatrical shows and worked on a number [...]