Category Winnipeg Music
If you remember from last month I did 3 solo guitar gigs at the Winnipeg airport. This month, I started with a duo gig at the same place. On the Monday of the Labour Day Long Weekend me and Larry… Continue Reading →
About once a month the jazz trio I have with my wife Adelle plays at the Prairie Ink Restaurant inside the McNally Robinson Bookstore here in Winnipeg. We play a collection of mostly jazz standards with a few appropriate pop… Continue Reading →
After landing back in Winnipeg (after 2½ weeks in Newfoundland and Toronto) I played 2 private functions in 2 days. The first was a 60th birthday and the next was an outdoor wedding. It is a 4 hour gig for… Continue Reading →
I have updated the blog on my personal site. The last two posts are about gigs one solo guitar one about a trio gig. The second post has video. https://robertburtonwinnipeg.ca/
On top of a reduced summer teaching schedule we are doing some choice musical appearances in and around Winnipeg. Here is a look at July. On the 2nd of July the Burton’s Jazz Duo Played at CCFM It is Stella’s Restaurant’s… Continue Reading →
On May 2nd I did my final jazz Tuesday at Earls’ on Main. the week after we were replaced by a D.J. booked by a private function and the week after replaced by silence while they considered their R.O.I. Nice… Continue Reading →
I am not much of a blues player. I’ll admit it. At the same time I am trying to get the word out there 21st century style so short vids that engage and fit the Instagram 60 seconds and less… Continue Reading →
I have been into electronic drums and drumming since its earliest beginnings I had one of the original Simmons drum sets with those classic 80’s sounds. They are super cool but their main knock is that they keep improving them…. Continue Reading →
So I was looking for the impossible. A beater 7 string jazz box I could take on vacation, on planes, leave at my music school www.riverheightsmusicschool.com. Do I ask for the impossible? I presently own 2 arch top guitars. Both… Continue Reading →
So usually before this time each year it would be my annual tirade against the NoJazz Winnipeg Festival. Admittedly at first glance I may have thought (and posted ) that it was another crappy, self serving, jazz hating joke. The… Continue Reading →