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No more live performances @ L’Escalier Montréal?

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Back At The Chicken Shack (Jimmy Smith 1960) was recorded here with Brian Downey feat. “Pedro” Ullmann @ L’Escalier Montréal THU 12 JULY 2012, a hot night it was.

Bad news though, coz the venue remains closed to live performances since June 2013. Please show your solidarity with this petition to reinstate live performances @ L’Escalier Montreal. The delay by the City of Montreal seems arbitrary knowing the venue has been fully sound proofed and was ready to reopen in July 2013 yet remains closed because of which these cats have lost four shows this summer with no recompensation or replacement whatsoever.

https://secure.avaaz.org/fr/petition/Sauvons_les_spectacles_a_lEscalier/sign/

Amazing and unique in Canada on the B3, Laszlo Ullmann is somewhat depending on gigs in Montreal because of his hospitalized brother. Brian Downey on the drums has no other player he locks in like he does with … Continue reading →

Brian and Blackie and the loss of music part 1.

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Duke Ellington, Paul Gonzales and other sleeping beauties. This is the concert to which Brian is referring : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17sjblH8bnw

On a side note:
After months of effort by L’Escalier Montreal to retrieve a permit by the city of MOntreal to restart their EVERYDAY live presentations the venue is still unable to do so, despite the whole level having been completely overhauled –

The Brian Downey Band feat. Montreal’s own Pedro Ullmann lost 4 (!!!!) shows that way with no replacement whatsoever – please give the minister an earfull, phone as follows:

https://www.facebook.com/spectaclesescalier

Monsieur François Robillard
Téléphone : 514 868-5178

http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=7317%2C79911708&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&id=102539599

please share, thank you. You can also sign and share the following petition. https://secure.avaaz.org/fr/petition/Sauvons_les_spectacles_a_lEscalier/sign/

In light of the latest efforts of our dictator government to bureaucratize and ultimately kill live music, a highly profitable industry with a lot … Continue reading →

BarKanada auf Sendung am Samstag, 9.Juni 2012

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BArKanada geht auf Sendung wieder am Samstag, den 9. Juni 2012, 17h MESZ, live stream @ www.tonkuhle.de. Diesmal mit live Mitschnitten aus Ottawa und Montreal – die Playlisten kommen bald an dieser Stelle!
BarKanada 2 air again this SAT June 9th, 11am EST – bits n pieces live from Ottawa and Montreal, live stream @ www.tonkuhle.de – playlists here shortly!
BarKanada de retour en diffusion SA 9 Juin 2012 – en direct d’Ottawa et Montréal, live stream @ www.tonkuhle.de, playlists sous peu ici même!