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Gilham finds new roots, Chill Billys launching CD at Spencer Homestead

BILL HENRY Sun Times staff The rocks piled in rows at the Spencer Homestead look much like the stone piles on other Oxenden area farms. Unless, like Tommy Gilham, you’re from Alabama. To him those stone rows, fence rails, towering … Continue reading

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Coco Love Alcorn has a new muse

BILL HENRY Sun Times staff De facto production credit for Coco Love Alcorn’s pending new CD should probably go to the singer’s baby daughter. If it wasn’t for Ellie’s arrival in September, just two weeks before Alcorn and her husband … Continue reading

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Tubist Marshall Gayman returns to Georgian Bay Symphony as soloist

BILL HENRY Sun Times staff Marshall Gayman’s first music was at the piano. His father showed him a few notes. Then he studied violin as a child. But the tuba diverted the young string musician during a brass quintet performance … Continue reading

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Harry Parker, influential fiddler still remembered after 30 years

BILL HENRY Sun Times staff Harry Parker’s sweet, swing fiddling and his jovial, generous nature had a lasting impact on Owen Sound’s music community. Almost 30 years after his death, local musicians, some of them who will entertain from Summerfolk … Continue reading

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