Author Archives: Brian

December 1, 2019

Upcoming events

By Brian

Wed.,Jun. 30 – Tues., July 6 2021 (subject to prevailing health conditions): Brian Campbell Photos/Jocelyne Dubois Paintings, Galerie Espace, 4844 boul. St-Laurent, Montreal. Vernissage: Sept. 26.

Sat., July 3 1-5pm… again, subject to prevailing health conditions. Vernissage Brian Campbell Photos/Jocelyne Dubois Paintings + Launch of “On This Shore”, an EP of five original songs, featuring Ema Jean on vocals and Chard Chenier on harmonica. Mariposa…le Café, 5434 chemin de Côte St-Luc, Montreal. Launch at 2pm. Galerie Espace, 4844 boul. St-Laurent, Montreal.

  • Performing at Cafe Mariposa
  • Hosting the Lawn chair soirée

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November 28, 2019

Recording at Studio Loco

By Brian
Martin Bennett et moi at Studio Loco

Martin Bennett, sound engineer/producer/arranger at Studio Loco here in Montreal’s Mile End, and I have been doing great work together recording & arranging my songs over the past couple of months. So far, eight have been recorded; five will be released as an EP called “On This Shore”, some time early next year. It seemed time to commemorate all this with a selfie!

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March 3, 2019

Pics: Mariposa Show with JB Demouy

By Brian

Another highly enjoyable show, sharing the bill with the French singer-songwriter J.B. Demouy….


Myself and Phil Peters, Mar. 2/19 at Mariposa
JB Demouy at Mariposa, Mar. 2/19

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April 10, 2018

Pics: Mariposa Cafe concert with Ronney Abramson

By Brian

Some pics from my show with Ronney Abramson at Mariposa Cafe last Saturday night. It was an honour to share the stage with Ronney — and her set was immensely enjoyable. It was also lovely to be accompanied by Phil Peters’ fine bass playing and Cathy Watt’s excellent vocal harmonies. It was a comfortably full house — about 30-odd in attendance, and I think the pictures convey that a good time was had by all. Photos: Jacques Bernier.

 

 

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April 5, 2018

Brian Campbell, Ronney Abramson & friends at Mariposa Café Sat. Apr 7

By Brian

I’ll be alternating sets with Ronney Abramson at this lovely, bohemian music café Saturday night at 7.  Accompanying me will be Cathy Watt, vocals and Phil Peters, bass.  Details in the sidebar to the right.

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April 5, 2018

Depannage

By Brian

Most Mondays these days I play music at the Depanneur Cafe, which happens to be close to where I live in Montreal’s Mile End. It’s a homey place with a couple of decent mikes and sound system, and musicians play there throughout the day. Most of the patrons are laptop nomads or there to meet friends, write, doodle, read books — so it’s like public practice, as it were. But more often than not I earn attentive listeners, and often sell CD’s or interest them in an upcoming event. The other week a photo enthusiast named Thomas Colin took pictures with his fine Sony camera; the following week, an artist named Sophie Jama did some watercolours in her sketch pad. I gave them free CD’s. If you want to drop in and see me play, I’m there Mondays between noon and 1pm.

 

Brian at Depanneur by Thomas Colin

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April 5, 2018

“Slick” in “Weather Watching”

By Brian

The other artistic spinoff from the anthology “Refugium”, my poem “Slick” was among those incorporated into “Weather Watching”, an exhibit of sculptural coracles by artist Erika Grimm that hung from the rafters of the White Rock Museum and Archives in White Rock, BC. in February and March of 2018.

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April 5, 2018

“Slick” inspires “Neverbird”

By Brian

One artistic spinoff of Refugium was an exhibit of twenty-two works of art responding to specific poems in the anthology, which was held in Maritime Museum of British Columbia (Victoria, BC) late last year. I’m honoured that “Slick” was one of those chosen, and that it inspired a most haunting sculptural work by Karina Kalvaitis. From the exhibit program:

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April 5, 2018

My poem “Slick” published in Refugium

By Brian

In 2017, my poem “Slick” was published in Refugium, Poems for the Pacific, an anthology edited by Yvonne Blomer and published by Caitlin Press.  Originally published as a short prose poem in my collection Passenger Flight, it was recast here as short poem.  The poem was inspired by memories of the Valdez oil spill, although of course it could reference the travesties wreaked on animal life by any oil spill. It’s an excellent anthology, by the way, featuring fine poems by the likes of Rachel Rose, Jan Zwicky, Patrick Lane, Maleea Acker, Barbara Pelman, Steven Heighton, Lorna Crozier, Fiona Tinwei Lam, and others.  For the anthology — and for this poem in particular — there were a couple of surprising artistic spinoffs which I’ll describe in other posts. Below, a handwritten version of the poem.

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April 5, 2018

For the record

By Brian

I’ve been ignoring this web site for a while — spreading most of my news and events on Facebook — but updating it recently, I thought, well, this news page could be a useful record. So that’s what I’ll use it for, while my blog, Out of the Woodwork, which years ago was extremely active, will serve for entries of occasional reflections.

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