Lots of great new tunes that are not auto-tuned.   If you pay attention away from the mainstream, real music exists without payola in the form of advertising. Lots of places to hear great tunes from great people. Please listen below to a few of those tunes and hear when they may be playing at a venue near you.       Please listen below … Continue reading Rick Keene Music Scene – The Associates, The Snyders, David Myles, Dale Boyle and See Spot Run

If you have the blues, you are lucky.   It is the music that defined the sound of what we hear today. The foundation of popular music. The frame of the Cadillac that Justin Bieber drives today. Every year, the Montreal Blues Society ensures the legacy remains. Each Fall the group accepts submissions for Blues’ bands and solo / duo artists to compete for the … Continue reading Rick Keene Music Scene – The Quebec to Memphis Blues Challenge

The touring version of The Phantom of the Opera is the biggest Broadway show ever produced. Judging by the reaction of the punters at Place des Arts last night, producers Cameron Mackintosh and Matthew Bourne can sleep well. Complete with state of the art pyrotechnics, the world famous chandelier, a fifty-two piece orchestra and a stellar cast, The Phantom of The Opera outdoes itself on every … Continue reading Rick Keene Music Scene – The Phantom of the Opera is ‘Magically Delicious’