Kev Corbett

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Hey,

How can you help me out, enjoy yourself, and get closer to nature in
just a few clicks of the mouse?

I recently entered a song of mine – about the oceans and personal responsibility – to be part of David Suzuki’s Playlist for the
Planet songwriting contest.

You can listen to and vote for the song that I wrote on the CBC Radio 3
website. You are allowed to vote once per day, and must logged in to
vote.

http://radio3.cbc.ca/planet/vote.aspx

Voting for my song could also get me closer to getting on the Playlist
for the Planet CD, and winning a Melody Maker Gibson guitar from Long
and McQuade. (edit: I’d so totally silkscreen Suzuki’s face on this guitar, no?)

What’s in it for you? A chance to win a P4theP t-shirt, and lots of gratitude. Take me up on it. I’ll help you paint your house, or something.

Twitter hashtag is #P4Planet. The most prolific twitterphiles also get a Playlist for the Planet t-shirt (tho I think a house concert with Dave Suzuki…?)

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Thanks, folks. Enjoy tomato season.
K xo

Hey beauties,

Yup, I’m home. It was great: I owe huge thanks to Via Rail, Dave Carmichael and Melissa Trottier, Stacey Ricker, Greg and Kate Moverley, Adam Faux, Kristy Hollidge, Alain Richer, Claire Rutledge, John Marlatt, James & Jane, JD Edwards, Jessee Havey, Erin Frith, Rachel Sawatzky, the entire Bachand family, Angel Bidinost, Longevity John, Milo-the-other-Joe, Greg & Anita Ross, Wild Heather Books, Stephanie in Nelson, the Art We Are in Kamloops, Fibonacci in Penticton, Shari Ulrich, the Roundhouse, the Treehouse, and Valdy’s Radio Hour. All of you made this possible. And until I can pay it back, I’ll pay it forward. Thank you.

So now, it’s back to normal. I’m practicing, writing, listening to a lot of vinyls, cleaning house. Couple of gigs coming up, more being booked. I’ll put up some vids. Howya been?

XO,
K

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 MARCH 1 2010

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The Son of a Rudderless Train tour takes singer-songwriter Kev Corbett from Halifax to Victoria and back, making all regular station stops in between.



(Halifax, NS) – After a sold-out record release show for his second self-produced full-length CD Son of a Rudderless Boat at The Company House in Halifax, And a much-lauded Roots Room showcase at the recent ECMA in Sydney, Kev Corbett is taking his show on the road in a classic Canadian fashion.

    His highly anticipated new album, Son of a Rudderless Boat (Little Red Canon) charted at #3 on the Earshot Folk/Roots in late December. The record features zinger lyrics and a sound that borrows from folk, bluegrass, blues and jazz, without getting too cozy with any of those. Special guests include Old Man Luedecke (That’s All Gone), Meaghan Smith (Deep and Wide, Flowers in my Sidewalk) and Christina Martin (The Driving Song), along with Erin Costelo, Thom Swift, Norma MacDonald and Don Brownrigg among many others.


    Key tracks include the banjo-inflected reggae vibe of That’s All Gone, the exuberant ode to love, food and the love of food Cheese and Whiskey, and the written-while-trapped-under-a-kayak title track, Son of a Rudderless Boat. A mainstage-set preview of the record at the 2009 Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival was the buzz of the weekend.

    The Chronicle Herald said: “It’s probably not easy to sound as comfortable before a microphone as Kev Corbett does, but the Halifax singer-songwriter has a way of making his conversational songs sound immediate and fresh, like the lyrics are spilling forth in a brand new way every time. You can hear hints of the masters, like Kristofferson and Prine, in Corbett’s odes to the good life and one-of-a-kind characters, but his voice is his own and his observations absorbing.”


    Kev Corbett is one of the best of eastern Canada’s bumper crop of fine young songwriters, with confident and compelling turns of phrase, top-notch musicality (Musician of the Year nominee, Nova Scotia Music Awards in 2008), and always entertaining storytelling. He has placed twice in the Telluride Bluegrass Festival song contest, was a semi-finalist for 2009 in the International Songwriting Competition for Flowers in My Sidewalk. He has played quality rooms like The Yellow Door (Montreal), The Free Times Cafe (Toronto), The Carleton (Halifax) and Club Passim (Cambridge MA). He played at the Times Changed High and Lonesome Club in Winnipeg and lived to write a song about it (12 Steps to Hell).

    Kev will board a Via Rail train on March 8th, and travel through March and April, playing daily on the train and hopping off to play towns all over Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and BC, culminating in a Bluebird North gig in Vancouver on April 20. While onboard, Corbett will be posting as often as reception permits, to his Twitter account (@corbettkev), documenting things with a small video camera, and recording another new album, using the sounds of the train and the people he encounters as his sonic backdrop to capture the feeling of this iconic trip.

    He’ll be back out on the road… this time in a car…for a series of dates in Ontario with Juno Award winner Stephen Fearing in late May.

See tour dates below, and check kevcorbett.com for updates.
 
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SON OF A RUDDERLESS TRAIN TOUR DATES


Mar 8th – Viarail Halifax-Montreal Train, Activity Car
Mar 9th – Montreal – Burritoville – 2055 r. Bishop – 514 286 2776 – $6/PWYC
Mar 10th – Viarail Montreal-Toronto Train, Activity Car
Mar 10th – Oakville – The Moonshine Cafe – 137 Kerr St. – 905 844 2655 – $6
Mar 11th – Toronto – The Troubadour – 3071 Dundas St. W. 647 345-8807 – 7pm – Free
Mar 12th – Hamilton – The Freeway Coffeehouse – 333 King St E. 905 296 1424 – $6
Mar 15th – Guelph – Jimmy Jazz
Mar 16th – Toronto – C’est What – 67 Front St E. – 416-867-9499 – $6
Mar 18th – Viarail Toronto-Winnipeg Train, Activity Car
Mar 19th – Viarail Toronto-Winnipeg Train, Activity Car
Mar 20th – Winnipeg – Sam’s Place – 159 Henderson Hwy – 204 661 5603 – $6/PWYC
Mar 23rd – Winnipeg – House Concert
Mar 24th – Winnipeg – TBC
Mar 25th – Viarail Winnipeg-Edmonton Train, Activity Car
Mar 26th – Edmonton – The Artery – 9535 Jasper Ave – 780.441.6966 – $TBC
Mar 27th – Canmore – TBC
Mar 28th – Twin Butte AB – House Concert
Mar 30th – Viarail Edmonton-Vancouver Train, Activity Car
Apr 1st – Vancouver – Cocoa Nymph Chocolates – 3739 West 10th Ave – 604 222 4477 – $6
Apr 2nd – Duncan – Duncan Garage Showroom – #201-330 Duncan Street – 250 748 7246 – $6
Apr 3rd – Victoria – House Concert
Apr 4th – Sooke – TBC
Apr 8th – Courtney – Joe’s Garage – 115 5th Street – 250 702-6456 – 8pm – $15
Apr 9th – Ucluelet – Wild Heather Books – 1576 Imperial Lane – 250 726 2665 – $10
Apr 10th – Salt Spring Island – TBC
Apr 15th Nelson, Cocoa-Nut Cafe
Apr 16th – Kamloops – The Art We Are – 201-322 Victoria Street – 250 828 7998 – $6
Apr 17th – Penticton – Fibonacci Cafe – 219 Main St. – 250 770 1913 – $6
April 20th – Vancouver – SAC Bluebird North @ Roundhouse – Davie @ Pacific – 604 713 1800
April 23rd – Viarail Vancouver-Edmonton Train, Activity Car
April 24th – Viarail Edmonton-Winnipeg Train, Activity Car
April 25th – Viarail Winnipeg-Toronto Train, Activity Car
April 26th – Viarail Winnipeg-Toronto Train, Activity Car
April 28th – Viarail Montreal-Halifax Train, Activity Car

Hey all,

1) out!
2) Booking the tour!
3) In the Dead of Winter was great! (I played bass, drums, kazoo, and sang – a few times all at the same time – with my buddy David Celia).

Much to do, dudes. If you have a venue you want me to come to during March/April, message me, OK?

xo,
K

By geez, have I got stories for you…

I’m just back from a month in Germany, where I was playing bass in Jennifer Roland‘s band, as part of the Irish Folk Festival, which is a gig that’s been traveling around Germany for some 30 years. CRAZY.

We started at the Cologne Philharmonic, the most amazing concert hall.

I got shown a recently discovered hiding place for wartime Jews at our venue in Pforzheim. Played a circus in Munich. Stayed in the Reeperbahn (the world-famous red-light district) in Hamburg, saw Tower of Power (!)…

…then Grandmaster Flash, the same night. Arrived in Berlin the night of the 20th anniversary of the falling of the Wall. Only-on-tour stories, I call’em.

And must say: toured with amazing folks. Besides my colleagues Jenny, Keithy, Buddy and Jason, also had a blast hanging out with Tommy O’Sullivan, Niamh Parsons and Graham Dunne, and The David Munnelly Band. A finer bunch you couldn’t have on the road. I miss ‘em all like crazy.

So, now that that’s done, we’re getting back on this record releasing thing. The date is just about confirmed, for mid-January. I’ll have more news before too long…

Hey, if you’re in the Halifax area, I’m playing tonight at the Rose and Kettle, out at the Cole Harbour Heritage Farm. Also, Saturday night, at the Lunenburg County Winery with my dudes Steve Bowers and Fleur Mainville. I haven’t seen either in 6 weeks. Like I said, great to be back.

xo,
K

I’m outta here, for awhile. Don’t worry, I’ll be in touch; just on tour f’r a bit, in Germany.

Know anyone there? I’m touring with Jennifer Roland’s band in the Irish Folk Festival, and we’ll be in Cologne, Pforzheim, Rosenheim, Pleinfeld, Landsberg, Munich, Ulm, Stuttgart, Luzerne; Bern, Herisau, and Baden Switzerland; Bochum, Oldenburg, Breda (NL), Kreuztal, Celle, Berlin, Hamburg, Neubrandenburg, Rostock, and Bremerhaven. If you’re over there, maybe we’ll see you. If you’re over here, follow me on Twitter (@corbettkev) and maybe you’ll see me. In lederhosen.

Hey dudes,

Just to let you know, we’re pulling up stake and moving. Outta the city and into a yurt, where we can hang with the deer.

This means, in practical terms, that this site’s gettin’ moved to a different server, so my web guru Mat Dunlap can trick me out with a music player for here, and a bunch of hotbuttons for linkability. Don’t worry. We’re only just gettin’ goin’.

In other news, I’m doing a weeklong hot yoga and beet salad detox. That’s right, we bad.

Oh, hey: I wanna come to your town. Get a hold of our folks at booking at kevcorbett dot com, and we’ll try to put that together, yeah? We’ll do lunch.

ttfn,
Kev xo

Hey gorgeouses,

Had an amazing, amazing time at Lunenburg Folk Fest. The staff and volunteers and the crowds and the other artists just amazed me all around. It was positively utopian. Special thanks to my brother Dan and his partner Michelle for flying in from Thunder Bay, and to my dad and stepmom for coming down to spend the whole weekend with me. It made a meaningful weekend doubly so.

So, it’s out. Finally. And I’m very happy with it. It’ll be on the usual complement of websites over the next few days, but for now, you can get it straight from me, or at Taz Records (1593 Market St Hfx, 422-5976 ), or if you’re in Amherst, at Pugsley’s.

Oh, also, if you have it, lemme know what you thing. Kev at kevcorbett dot com. Cool?

See y’soon,
K xo

Hey, Beautifuls!

So, the album art’s signed off, mastering’s tomorrow, and we appear to be full steam ahead to the CD RELEASE on Aug 6th at Lunenburg Folk Fest!

WAAAAA!

It’s called ‘Son of a Rudderless Boat’, has 10 tunes, and a wack of neat moments. I played a lot of it, and brought in friends who do things I can’t (like sing high and play trumpet).

Keep in touch. You’ll hear from me soon…

Photo by Greg ‘I am the Greggman’ Wagner. Guitar by Morgan.