Author Archives: Brian

November 24, 2018

Upcoming events

By Brian

Tuesdays 2 pm – 3 pm I play songs for the afternoon crowd — originals and covers. Free. Next date: Jan. 29. Le Dépanneur Café, 206 Rue Bernard O, Montréal

Thurs. Jan. 17, Feb. 21, Mar. 21, Apr. 11, May 16, Jun. 20, 2019: Lawn chair soirée. I cohost this literary series which features four readers and a musician + open mike. Art Lounge, 160 St-Viateur W. #108.

Sat., Mar. 2, 2019 Brian Campbell, JB Demouy & friends. I’ll be featured with fellow singer-songwriter JB Demouy. My own acccompanists include Phil Peters (bass) and Cathy Watt (vocalist). Mariposa… le Cafe, 5434 Côte St-Luc, Montreal 7pm – 10 pm. $10 cover.

Fri., Mar. 8, 2019 Side Door Cafe. I’ll be featured as a singer-songwriter in a 25-minute set, accompanied by Phil Peters (bass) and Cathy Watt (vocalist), along with two other feature acts. 12450 rue Gascon, Pierrefonds, Quebec. 8pm-10 pm. $10 cover.

Late March/Early April 2019 (date to be confirmed) Montreal Serai Writers’ and Artists’ Evening: I’m one of ten writers invited to read their work on this evening commemorating 32 years of the online review Montreal Serai. Espace Knox, 6215 Avenue Godfrey, Montréal, QC

Fri., Apr. 19, 2019 Tilted Steeple Coffee House. I’m featured as a singer-songwriter in a 25-minute set, along with two other feature acts. St. James Anglican Church, 20 High Street, Morrisburg, Ont. 7:30 pm.

Tues., May 14, 2019: Visual Arts Centre Reading Series. I’m a featured reader along with five or six other writers and a musician. Visual Arts Centre, 350 Victoria Ave., Montreal, QC $6

June 10, 2019: Logos reading series, Montreal; featured reader.

Wed.,Sept. 23 – Tues., Sept. 29, 2020: Brian Campbell Photos/Jocelyne Dubois Paintings, Galerie Espace. Vernissage: Sat., Sept. 26, 2020 2-5pm.

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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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June 30, 2016