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George Canyon
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George Canyon, Canada’s Country Superstar, brings his national tour to the Stockey Centre stage on Monday, June 21st! We can’t think of a better way to usher in the summer.
You can go ahead and just dance to the music of George Canyon, if that’s what you want. He’s a country neo-traditionalist par excellence, producing music situated somewhere between the bright and studio-tooled Nashville ideal and something a little older, with a voice that can soar with emotion or linger in a heavy bottom-end that feels like a kick in the chest from a faith healer. It’s instant.
When you see the man, with piercing eyes that hang above his square jaw, the star appeal becomes even more obvious, and you remember all those achievements – the string of hits, a shelf-full of Junos and Canadian Country Music Awards, not to mention his rocket-ride to American fame on Nashville Star 2 in 2004, and the subsequent blockbuster albums One Good Friend, and Somebody Wrote Love.
You can find more of George's music videos on his YouTube channel, and even more videos, photos and interviews on his website.
Tickets for George Canyon go on sale to MEMBERS ONLY on February 5th, 2010 at 8:45 pm, and to the General Public on February 19th.
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When you see the man, with piercing eyes that hang above his square jaw, the star appeal becomes even more obvious, and you remember all those achievements – the string of hits, a shelf-full of Junos and Canadian Country Music Awards, not to mention his rocket-ride to American fame on Nashville Star 2 in 2004, and the subsequent blockbuster albums One Good Friend, and Somebody Wrote Love.
“What I Do” will resonate with anybody who’s ever raised a kid, since it describes with diamond precision the gentle act of chaperoning a child through life.
Says Canyon, “My son said to me, about six months ago, ‘Dad, why don’t you have any songs about me on your albums?’ And he’d just turned 10. And I said, ‘You know what buddy, you’re right.” So I wrote two songs about him on this album.”
“Just Like You” is the first single from What I Do and the other half of Canyon’s Daddy Duology. In contrast to “What I Do”, the Calgary-resident attacks the subject from a lighter if no less true perspective on “Just Like You”, examining his longing for childhood-lost with hopped-up fiddles and banjos, set against a thumping backbeat.
“Kale knows it’s a true song,” says Canyon, with a soft chuckle. “When we heard it on the radio for the first time, he sat there with a big grin on his face, because he knew it was his. And I’ll tell you, as a Dad, that’s a pretty darn cool feeling.”
Adds the singer, “As far as songs go, it’s one of my favourites, because it says exactly the truth. It says what most dads think, for sure.”
Canyon sings about things that are bigger than him, and the humility is flattering. As he says, “In country music, sincerity is everything,” which might be why the likeable 39 year-old from Nova Scotia is a rapidly ascending star on both sides of the border.
“You look at a lot of things in life, and you wonder, ‘Gosh, I wonder what it’s like on the other side of that fence,’ and you imagine things and you dream things up. But the other side of the fence is like the side you’re on. They’re normal people, they get dressed in the morning, they have the same issues – it was a bit of an eye-opener.”
The funny thing is, Canada’s rising Country superstar speaks from the other side of the fence himself these days, whether he knows it or not.
