Festive Festival Time!
June 13, 2008
It’s summertime, and that means Festivals! Quarrington and Porkbelly Futures are going to be at the following: Toronto City Roots Festival (June 28), Mariposa (July 5), Ottawa Blues Fest (July 12), London Home County Festival (July 19) and the Blue Skies Festival in Clarendon (August 1 through 3.) Porkbelly Futures will also spend three days and nights ( Aug. 26, 27, 28) at the Forest Festival. This is a wonderful event organized by our wondrous guitarist/harpist/steelist/mandoliner Stuart Laughton. We’re not sure exactly what we’re going to do, but we’re going to do something different every night! And Quarrington will also be heading out to Sechelt, B.C. for the wonderful Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts. Whilst out there, Quarrington will also play a local club with his buddy Dave Bidini, who championed King Leary to victory on Canada Reads!
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Porkbellys Play the Best Folk/Roots Concert of the Year
March 22, 2008
James Reaney Music Editor of the London Free Press votes one of our Ontario appearances last fall Best Folk/Roots Concert of the Year.
“Porkbelly Futures played The London Music Club to an appreciative audience and were as bloody great as you’d expect from a band good enough to have somebody from the Canadian Brass playing guitars and harmonica, the double bassist from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra bowing away and a Governor General’s Award-winning novelist supplying most of the lyrics. And they had London’s Teddy Leonard guesting on guitar. When Porkbelly Futures come back, don’t you dare miss them.” James Reaney, London Free Press, Dec. 29/07
Thank you Mr. Reaney!
We were also pleased to see Blackie and the Rodeo Kings (featuring Porkbelly contributor Colin Linden) in runner-up spot.
We’ll be back at the London Musical Club on Saturday, March 22. The estimable Mr. Leonard will be with us.
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Porkbelly Futures new CD hits the stores!
March 22, 2008
Porkbelly Futures’ new CD has been released by Cordova Bay Entertainment Group. It is entitled “Porkbelly Futures” so as to avoid any confusion. Please walk into your nearest music outlet and say, “Please give me ‘Porkbelly Futures’ by that great band, um… I forget.” OR… you can order your CD on ITunes. Or select individual songs. Indeed, we kind of like that, because the tracks get little lines after them, and the more popular, the longer the line. Quarrington, Worthy and Laughton, the chief writers for the band, are having kind of a horse race! So, come on! Help Quarrington’s pony win!!
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