“When I first opened my store, vinyl was making a comeback.” John Thompson, owner of The Record Centre on Wellington St., is a vinyl record expert. Thompson has spent the last thirty years buying, selling and enjoying his collection of records and audio equipment. His inventory at the store, which opened in 2011, has grown…
Fulfilling a childhood dream… It is a chilly winter evening; Carlos Alberto Santana plays the piano and his fingers glide improvising effortlessly. The Option Jazz Lounge is in the Brook Street Hotel in Kanata. On January 15th at 6:30 p.m. the room came alive with the Latin jazz improvisations resulting in a dazzling performance. Santana’s…
Keith Glass Band has been around for nearly half a century. It was founded in 1978 as a splinter group of Juno-Award-winning Prairie Oyster, and Keith Glass Band outlived that group’s reformation and re-dissolution (technically not disbanded, but when the last album was in 2006…). It’s been peddling a unique blend of rock, swing and…
