Event Location: Del Crary Park
Address: 100 George Street Peterborough, ON
When: June 27, 2015 at 8:00 pm
Description
Randy Bachman will be kicking off Peterborough Musicfest 2015 at Del Crary Park! Come down to Del Crary Park on Saturday June 27th as Canada’s longest free summer concert series kicks off with one of Canada’s most popular rock artists of all time.
Few artists have made a bigger impact on popular music than Randy Bachman, widely regarded as the “architect of Canadian rock n’ roll.” As a member of iconic groups Bachman-Turner Overdrive and The Guess Who, his bands produced such anthems turned pop-culture touchstones as “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet,” “Taking Care of Business,” “Looking Out for #1,” “Let It Ride,” “American Woman,” “No Sugar Tonight,” “Undun,” and “These Eyes.”
Since his first hit, 1965’s “Shaking All Over,” Bachman has sold over 40 million records and earned over 120 gold and platinum album/singles awards around the world for performing and producing. His songwriting has garnered him the coveted #1 spot on radio playlists in over 20 countries. He is an 11-time JUNO award winner and remains the only one of his countrymen to have been inducted twice into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
Growing up in Winnipeg, Bachman displayed an innate musical talent at an early age, winning a singing contest at age three and being able to play songs by ear, a characteristic he describes as phonographic memory. After turning in his violin at 12, he saw Elvis Presley performing on television and was captivated by the guitar around his neck. After learning the art of finger-picking from Lenny Breau, he bought a ticket to a Les Paul concert in Winnipeg only to be denied entry because of his age. Young and determined, Bachman helped Paul set up before the show and reload all of Paul’s equipment back into his car upon the conclusion of the set when he asked Paul if he could teach him a song. Paul complied with his version of “How High The Moon.”
During the summer of 2014, he rifled through his vast catalogue of unreleased songs and knocked out 12 new tracks of rough-and-tumble blues-rock for a new album, featuring solo contributions from guitar greats Peter Frampton, Neil Young, Joe Bonamassa, Robert Randolph, Scott Holiday, Luke Doucet and the late Jeff Healey, and a powerhouse rhythm section consisting of bassist Anna Ruddick and drummer Dale Anne Brendon.
In the spring of 2015, his debut solo album Heavy Blues was unveiled under the moniker BACHMAN. There’s an immediacy and toughness to Heavy Blues that’s impossible to ignore. “I had a conversation at the Musicians Hall of Fame induction with Neil, who said, ‘If you’re getting a new record deal, don’t make the same old music and call it new. Reinvent yourself, your writing, your sound and get out of the box – time to be fierce, ferocious and afraid. Scare yourself by getting out of your safety zone.”
In the end, Heavy Blues should surprise and delight loyal fans, while also attracting a new, younger audience that revels in the stripped-down blues of the Black Keys and the White Stripes.
