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CanArt is a structured, skills-based visual arts program designed for children and teens. Running from September to June, it offers a clear progression in artistic development, combining technical skill-building with creativity and critical thinking. Each year culminates in a professional exhibition, where students present their work in the gallery at the Sault Ste Marie Museum.

Annie King believes art education should grow with each student, combining strong foundational training with opportunities for personal expression. Through the CanArt Badge Certification program and exhibition experiences, she is passionate about creating a learning environment where creativity, curiosity, and dedication are celebrated. As CanArt expands, Annie’s role ensures that every class, exhibition, and learning experience reflects the studio’s commitment to thoughtful, high-quality arts education.

Brandon Schmitt, our Director of Operations & Community, supports the behind-the-scenes work that allow creativity to thrive. He keeps systems organized making families feel welcome and supported. Brandon brings steadiness, clarity, and kindness to everything he does. As CanArt continues to grow, his role helps ensure the studio remains both creatively ambitious and thoughtfully run.

Date:28 September 2026 .

The Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Hour is broadcast on National Public Radio (WCMU-NPR)

s1.e3 GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour – The GLO Odyssey takes a deep dive into the boreal forest and its relationship to the human experience and how it affects the Great Lakes.

The Canadian boreal region is the largest area of wetlands in the world’s ecosystems. The north shore of the world’s largest fresh water lake, Superior, is home to the boreal. It is a vast land of magnificent wildlife, inland lakes and rivers, and forests of deciduous and coniferous trees that serve as lungs of the planet. It is in this area where the largest number of Indigenous First Nations make their home. And it is in these forests where industry, once unchecked, has put the ecosystems in danger.

Joanie McGuffin, Canadian explorer, conservationist, writer and motivational speaker on the Boreal Forest. Owen Neill, late Canadian poet performs Walking In Forests. Dean Sayers on Indigenous industry and asserting the land and forests of Gargantua. Joe Reilly, singer, songwriter, social worker, and educator from Michigan who writes tree songs from his heart.
MUSIC: Ellson Graywell. Don Charbonneau. Ontarians. Julian Taylor. Dreyam.

s1.e3 GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour Music & Art Credits

Photo Credit: Gary McGuffin

Title – Big Five Water
Artist/Composer – Ray Bonneville

Title – St. Mary’s River Fantasy
Album – Nocturnes
Artist/Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Pukaskwa Magic
Album – Gitche Gumee: Songs From The Lake
Artist/Composer – Don Charbonneau

Title – A Forest
Artist – Ellson Graywell
Composer – Laurence Andrew Tolhurst / Robert James Smith / Simon Gallup / Matthieu A. Hartley

Title – The Dead Forest
Album – The Zombie Zone
Artist/Composer – Trappa Skunk

Title – A Guide’s Tale
Album – Gitche Gumme Songs From the Lake
Artist/Composer – Don Charbonneau

Title – The Weird Woods
Album – The Zombie Zone
Artist/Composer – Trappa Skunk

Title – (Nothing) Like They Said
Album – Frank Deresti & The Lake Effect
Artist – Frank Deresti & The Lake Effect

Title – Forest For The Trees
Album – The Greatest Short Story Never Told
Artist – Ontarians

Title – Walking In Forests
Album – Circles In The Sand
Artist/Composer – Owen Neill & Music by Jeff Neill

Title – Dirt River X-ing
Album – The Zombie Zone
Artist/Composer – Trappa Skunk

Title – Seeds
Album – Beyond The Reservoir
Artist/Composer – Julian Taylor

Title – Ancient Stories
Album – Superior
Artist – Dreyam

Title – Ancient Voices
Album – Superior
Artist – Dreyam

Title – Tree Hugging Song
Album – Children Of The Earth
Artist/Composer – Joe Reilly

Title – If I Could Be Any Tree
Album – Children Of The Earth
Artist/Composer – Joe Reilly

Title – Tree Meditation
Album – Touch The Earth
Artist/Composer – Joe Reilly

This program is produced by Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Partners in venture with The Borderline.

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Inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the Great Lakes Odyssey World is a multi-national effort to strengthen and explore our relationship with the natural wonders known as the Great Lakes.

In this part of the project, we have created a multi-part audio series looking at the way the Great Lakes shape our lives, our livelihoods, our health and our culture.

50 years ago, folks in the media and elsewhere were ready to declare the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie “dead.”

The thought so appalled citizens in Canada and the United States, they forced their national governments to act.

Because, of course, the Great Lakes shape the life of both Canada and the United States. And, of course, the Great Lakes are a single system stretching from Duluth to Ottawa and down the St. Lawrence seaway. What happens to any of the Lakes will soon happen to the others.

So, the politicians of 50 years ago negotiated the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, “for the purpose of restoring, protecting and enhancing the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes basin.”

50 years later, we can see the agreement worked. We see more fish, cleaner water, and less pollution. Unlike the early settlers and colonials, who mostly saw the Lakes as a resource to tap, we now recognize, like the First Nations, the Lakes are part of our identity. They shape our relationships, our songs and celebrations of place, the way we eat, how we play, and what we make, or sell, or harvest.

50 years since the wake-up call of a burning river, Great Lakes Odyssey wants to learn how we live and love, hurt and restore the incredible gift which is the Great Lakes.

We will explore Great Lakes art and artistic expression, and meet the artists, writers, musicians who make it. We will also dip into Great Lakes history and lore – and learn from the people who have been here the longest and know it the best: The People of the Three Fires, the Anishinaabek.

On our Odyssey around the Great Lakes, we will also hear from people working to prevent poisonous algal blooms or stop the spread of invasive species. We will meet visionaries undoing decades of development that hardened shorelines, emptied marshes and wetlands, and destroyed critical spawning grounds. We will talk to people working to ensure all beings have access to pure drinking water.

Because none of us can live without pure drinking water.

In this wondrous place we call the Great Lakes, we know we are blessed by these Sweet Water Seas. We claim them as our H.O.M.E.S. as the emotionally accurate mnemonic says. They are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior, and they are our HOMES.

As long as humans have lived in, and of and through the Lakes, people have told stories about them, sung about them, and gloried in this great gift of the long departed Ice Age. Left by glaciers thousands of years ago, they are the World’s storehouse of fresh water. If they are drained… or ruined… or damaged, they can never be replaced.

So, as we travel around the Great Lakes basin, we want to see how we are doing – what we are doing – how we’re feeling and what we’re learning as we try to live as lovers and restorers – and children and family – of the being whom the Anishinaabek call Nayaano-nibiimaang Gichigamiin, the five freshwater seas.

We hope to galvanize, inspire, and motivate you to strengthen, support and steward the Great Lakes to a beautiful and healthy future.

So please join us on this magical, dare we say “magical mystery tour” of the Great Lakes basin and Great Lakes culture.

Date:27 September 2026 .

The Purple Hill Country Opry is located just 2 miles North of Hwy #2 on Purple Hill Road, near Thorndale, Ontario. Opry shows are on the first Sunday of every month, featuring great Canadian talent from Country Music Hall of Famers and Top Recording Artists, to Juno Award winners and budding stars on the way up! Jeffrey Wright is one of those performers.

Jeffrey has long been a country music performer with aspirations of someday hitting the big-time, the Grand Ole Opry stage in Nashville, Tennessee. While playing Purple Hill, Wright’s sound caught the attention of country artist and producer, Brian Moon. Moon asked Jeffrey to accept an invitation to a Montreal recording session with Nashville-based Clarksville Creative Sound, and country songwriter and producer Curt Ryle. Jeffrey said yes, and recorded three of his songs from his back catalog.

Date:26 September 2026 .

The doors are open once again at Sault Ste. Marie’s beloved heritage sites. We invite you to revisit your favourite places or discover something new. Our themes include military history, the fur trade, arts and culture, heritage buildings, architecture and Indigenous history. You will be spoiled for choice!
Come and explore the Ontario Heritage Trust’s popular Doors Open Ontario program and learn more about the province’s spectacular heritage sites!

Date:25 September 2026 .

BLUES JAZZ

Jimmy Rushing – Sent For You Yesterday
Jimmy Rushing – Sonny Boy Blues
Count Basie – Jumpin’ At The Woodside
Count Basie – One O’Clock Jump
Duke Ellington – C Jam Blues
Duke Ellington – Across The Blues
Charlie Parker – Blues For Alice
Charlie Parker – Cool Blues
Dizzy Gillespie & Thelonius Monk & the Giants of Jazz – Blue’N’Boogie
Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan – Watermelon Man (w. Coleman Hawkins)
Miles Davis – All Blues

LIVEWIRE BLUES POWER with dj Danny Mott

The blues tradition began in North America, coming out of the very soul of the earth. Blood, sweat and tears enriched the fertile ground that formed the roots that fed the soul of the people. It exuded itself through the music, we are the blues.

Having grown up on the borderline of the USA, and picking up that great late night blues radio, coming clear from Detroit and Chicago, we grew up accustomed to blues power. It was coming from everywhere. It makes for a vast reservoir of musical knowledge and experience to draw from.

Livewire Blues Power plays classic recordings from the all-time blues greats, as well as blues from around the world rooted in the tradition, and Livewire Blues Power also introduces the music of the Soo’s blues artists to blues fans everywhere.

“IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE BLUES, YA GOTTA HOLE IN YER SOUL”

About Your Host

DANNY MOTT was born in England and raised in Canada. Danny has been involved in myriad recordings and in various countries, most notably in Jamaica and Cuba.

Danny’s music is released under the moniker, “Mocombo” where he acts as composer, producer, engineer and musician. Mocombo is a versatile band project that shifts effortlessly between world music, traditional blues, Cuban jazz and blues rock.

Danny has a rich academic background in music that includes various diplomas, degrees and certificates. Danny’s studies include; Classical guitar from the Algoma Conservatory of Music; Composition, performance, music history, music business and retailing from Humber College of Applied Arts; North Indian Hindustani classical music at the Academy Of Eastern Fine Arts; Adult teaching techniques for music at Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology; Music education at the University of Victoria; Studio recording from the Institute of Recording and Arts; Music theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music; Music and anthropology at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Dean’s Honour List; Religious traditions of Islam at the University of Waterloo.

Danny’s music performance and work history are also impressive. As a tour promoter, acts like Gordon Lightfoot and Ravi Shankar; as a music teacher at Nelson Music in B.C.; Music Marketing Director and music technician at Saved By Technology in Toronto, with a client list including the Rolling Stones, Rush, Barenaked Ladies, Jane Siberry, and many more; Marketing and Sales Director for On Publications Inc., a national distribution of music print medium company; Marketing Director for Roy Creations International in Montreal, for the Canadian Recording Industry Association.

Danny has orchestrated several projects, including a film in the Cuban language, with the participation of Cuba’s National Dance Company.

Danny’s project, Mocombo, has issued seven outstanding CDs: Odyssey, Zubie Zubie, Dreamscape, Flophouse Daddy, Flophouse Daddy Returns (Boldly Going Nowhere), Global 360 and Mocombo in Habana Project (2 CD set).

Danny Mott (with Jimmie Vaughan)

“Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.”

Date:25 September 2026 .

Under A Moonlit Sky is Mike Haggith’s 53rd canon solo release, and first-ever full-length, full band live album. Recorded at the Sault Downtown Plaza in Sault Ste Marie on the evening of September 25, 2025, the band’s set was comprised entirely of original material, largely sourced from Haggith’s four 2020s-era solo releases.

Featuring hits, B-sides, jokes, and a little introspection, this concert had it all, and it’s been preserved in superb quality on this release.

Band Lineup:
Mike Haggith – Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Brandan Glew – Percussion, Vocals
Chris Nielsen – Lead Guitar, Vocals
Elly McWatters – Vocals, Aux. Percussion
Matt Fronzi – Bass Guitar, Vocals

Live Sound Engineer – Mike Blair; 705Live Sound Co.
Audio Enhancement – Mike Haggith; MorningStar Records
Production – Mike Haggith; MorningStar Records
Album Cover Photo – Celeste Maurer

Concert Organizer – Josh Ingram; City of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario

released November 30, 2025

Date:24 September 2026 .

Serving families is our passion, our commitment and our expertise. Whether you’re planning a funeral or cremation service for a loved one, or making your own arrangements in advance, meaningful life celebrations begin with Dignity Memorial’s compassionate funeral and event planners.

For Dignity Memorial providers, there is no greater honour than helping to remember a life lived. We are dedicated, local professionals committed to getting every detail right, every time. We do this by listening, caring and guiding each and every family who walks through our doors. It’s why we’ve become a trusted part of the communities we serve and why families consistently give us 5-star ratings for exceptional care.

Barton & Kiteley Chapel provides funeral, memorial and celebration of life ceremonies to the Sault Ste. Marie community and surrounding areas. We conduct services for families of all cultural and religious backgrounds. We are centrally located and honoured to serve families throughout the Algoma District.

Our staff is the largest funeral home team in the area, with the most combined years of experience. We are dedicated to assisting with all of your funeral needs. We are proud to be among the few companies that received the J.D. Power President’s Award for our commitment to customer satisfaction in 2016.

We care about Sault Ste. Marie
Our community involvement reaches approximately 100 areas with staff memberships in different service clubs and organizations. We not only work during normal business hours, we spend many hours out in the Sault Ste. Marie community and surrounding areas, supporting events, serving on boards and providing education. Our associates participate with the Masons, Eastern Star, YMCA, MS Society, Alzheimer’s Society and many others.

Here are a few more ways we make a positive impact on the community:

We sponsor Rotary Club of Sault Ste. Marie, including the Rotaryfest, Easter Seals Telethon and Thrive Child Development Centre.

For more than 20 years, we’ve decorated a Christmas tree to raise money for the Algoma Lung Association at its Festival of Trees. The decorated trees are auctioned off in late November, and each tree typically raises around $1,500 for the cause.

For Operation Christmas Child, we collect shoeboxes from community partners, businesses and schools with useful items to be given to less fortunate children, so those kids can celebrate the holidays.

We’re regulars at The Soo Sings for Kids. Each year, our team competes in a song and dance competition. The winner gets $5,000 to donate to the charity of their choice. Our charity is the Jumpstart Charity via the Canadian Tire Association. We regularly place in the top three.

We have sponsored and participated in the Bon Soo Winter Carnival for many years.

We sponsor a program to help combat teenage drinking deaths with PARTY (Preventing Alcohol Related Trauma in Youth). The program sends guest speakers to high schools to promote its “contract for life” idea. Additionally, we participate and sponsor the Sweet Life Roadshow—an interactive experience to raise awareness among teens about road risks and show simple strategies for staying safe on the road.

We participate in the Lions Club Rose Day, delivering roses to nursing homes and other members of the community.

People on our staff also coach and help support local ringette teams. Our funeral home has sponsored Arthur’s Angels for more than 20 years.

We have had the privilege to sponsor a family suite at the new Usi Koti part of the Ontario Finnish Resthome. The suite gives family members a comfortable environment to stay near their loved ones for a visit or when attending to a loved one who has passed.

We are involved with the Military Support Group, assisting with bringing fallen servicemen and servicewomen home for final arrangements.

We also help with many other community programs: Gideons, 100 Women/Men Who Care, Algoma University, Community Living Algoma, Heart & Stroke, Cancer Society, Algoma Family Services, Cub Scouts, Soup Kitchen and others.

We’ve been a member of the Chamber of Commerce for more than 60 years.

Date:22 September 2026 .

Bryan Davies is a writer, commentator, and creative works consultant. Author of several hundred articles spanning history, law, sport, and politics. Bryan is the founder of Tagona Press and is a regular visitor to The Book Cover.

A Fatal Affair: The Murder of Helen Grier – Amanda Capper and Judy Penz Sheluk collaborate to deliver the murder mystery, A Fatal Affair. Born on December 14, 1908, Helen Grier was described as “a pretty brunette with straight brown hair, slightly over 5′ in height,” and a “skilled markswoman and hunter.”

Crawford Lake: Layers In Time – Crawford Lake has many stories to tell – Niagara Escarpment gem … indigenous settlement … Crawford family retreat … geological and climate science research epicenter … poetry and visual art inspiration …. and ‘Layers In Time’ captures them all!

A West End Companion – Gene Ubriaco is a former professional hockey player, coach, and executive, and now Gene is a published author and illustrator. His first-ever published collection of evocative art, showcasing his love for family, hockey, and his roots in the Sault’s post-WWII “West End” community, is entitiled “A West End Companion”. The legendary Sault Ste Marie native is most of all, a fine human being.

Date:22 September 2026 .

The Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Hour is broadcast on National Public Radio (WCMU-NPR)

s1.e2. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour – Nearly 5,000 rivers, tributaries and aquifers flow into the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway, they are the lifeblood of the basin.

Nearly 5,000 rivers, tributaries and aquifers flow into the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway, they are the lifeblood of the Great Lakes. Villages, towns and cities populate the lands drawing inspiration from the natural surroundings that infuses the local culture and folklore. The Lakes are connected, their history intertwined, their story shared. As life around the Great Lakes basin shapes in relation to its immediate environment the river can sing and dance yet still tell sad tales of abuse and lack of respect for the waters. The rivers, the blood that pumps life into the Great Lakes, ask the utmost respect to live always.

Terry Blackhawk, celebrated poet and creative writing teacher, reads from ‘Maumee, Maumee.’ The Peter White, singer/songwriter of ‘Voices of the Gathering Place’ on history of the Bawating Sault rapids. Erik Nordman, Professor at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, with the Grand River story. Sagen Pearse is leader of the band Hollowsage & the Three Mile Islanders, relates a love story, set on four of the Great Lakes. The Rouge River fire of 1969 is remembered by Marie McCormick, executive director of Friends of the Rouge. Sara Thomsen is a folk & spiritual singer based in Duluth, Minnesota, and writes songs about water, inspired by Indigenous knowledge. And music by Aysanabee.

s1.e2 GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour Music Credits

Sault Rapids Painting (unknown)

Title – Big Five Water
Artist/Composer – Ray Bonneville

Title – St. Mary’s River Fantasy
Album – Nocturnes
Artist/Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Riverside
Album – At King Electric
Artist/Composer – Ray Bonneville

Title – The River
Album – Oh July
Artist/Composer – Shannon Moan Trio

Title – River
Album – Watin
Artist/Composer – Aysanabee

Title – Welcome Home
Album – Voices From The Gathering Place
Artist/Composer – Peter White

Title – The River
Album – Voices From The Gathering Place
Artist/Composer – Peter White

Title – Storm Track
Album – Superior
Artist – Dreyam

Title – I Am The River
Album – Nuclear Home
Artist – Hollowsage & The Three Mile Islanders

Title – Great Lake Love
Album – Nuclear Home
Artist – Hollowsage & The Three Mile Islanders

Title – Water Is Life
Album – Song Like A Seed
Artist/Composer – Sara Thomsen

Title – River Dream
Album – Song Like A Seed
Artist/Composer – Sara Thomsen

Title – Vermillion
Album – Lunz 3
Artist/Composer – Tim Story & Hans-Joachim Roedelius

This program produced by GLOW Radio Partners in venture with The Borderline Events Co.

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Inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the Great Lakes Odyssey World is a multi-national effort to strengthen and explore our relationship with the natural wonders known as the Great Lakes.

In this part of the project, we have created a multi-part audio series looking at the way the Great Lakes shape our lives, our livelihoods, our health and our culture.

50 years ago, folks in the media and elsewhere were ready to declare the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie “dead.”

The thought so appalled citizens in Canada and the United States, they forced their national governments to act.

Because, of course, the Great Lakes shape the life of both Canada and the United States. And, of course, the Great Lakes are a single system stretching from Duluth to Ottawa and down the St. Lawrence seaway. What happens to any of the Lakes will soon happen to the others.

So, the politicians of 50 years ago negotiated the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, “for the purpose of restoring, protecting and enhancing the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes basin.”

50 years later, we can see the agreement worked. We see more fish, cleaner water, and less pollution. Unlike the early settlers and colonials, who mostly saw the Lakes as a resource to tap, we now recognize, like the First Nations, the Lakes are part of our identity. They shape our relationships, our songs and celebrations of place, the way we eat, how we play, and what we make, or sell, or harvest.

50 years since the wake-up call of a burning river, Great Lakes Odyssey wants to learn how we live and love, hurt and restore the incredible gift which is the Great Lakes.

We will explore Great Lakes art and artistic expression, and meet the artists, writers, musicians who make it. We will also dip into Great Lakes history and lore – and learn from the people who have been here the longest and know it the best: The People of the Three Fires, the Anishinaabek.

On our Odyssey around the Great Lakes, we will also hear from people working to prevent poisonous algal blooms or stop the spread of invasive species. We will meet visionaries undoing decades of development that hardened shorelines, emptied marshes and wetlands, and destroyed critical spawning grounds. We will talk to people working to ensure all beings have access to pure drinking water.

Because none of us can live without pure drinking water.

In this wondrous place we call the Great Lakes, we know we are blessed by these Sweet Water Seas. We claim them as our H.O.M.E.S. as the emotionally accurate mnemonic says. They are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior, and they are our HOMES.

As long as humans have lived in, and of and through the Lakes, people have told stories about them, sung about them, and gloried in this great gift of the long departed Ice Age. Left by glaciers thousands of years ago, they are the World’s storehouse of fresh water. If they are drained… or ruined… or damaged, they can never be replaced.

So, as we travel around the Great Lakes basin, we want to see how we are doing – what we are doing – how we’re feeling and what we’re learning as we try to live as lovers and restorers – and children and family – of the being whom the Anishinaabek call Nayaano-nibiimaang Gichigamiin, the five freshwater seas.

We hope to galvanize, inspire, and motivate you to strengthen, support and steward the Great Lakes to a beautiful and healthy future.

So please join us on this magical, dare we say “magical mystery tour” of the Great Lakes basin and Great Lakes culture.

Date:20 September 2026 .

JAZZ ‘N’ BLUES

Jimmy Rushing – Sent For You Yesterday
Jimmy Rushing – Sonny Boy Blues
Count Basie – Jumpin’ At The Woodside
Count Basie – One O’Clock Jump
Duke Ellington – The “C” Jam Blues
Duke Ellington – Across The Blues
Charlie Parker – Blues For Alice
Charlie Parker – Cool Blues
Dizzy Gillespie & Thelonious Monk & the Giants of Jazz – Blue’n’Boogie
Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan – Watermelon Man (w. Coleman Hawkins)
Miles Davis – All Blues

LIVEWIRE BLUES POWER with dj Danny Mott

The blues tradition began in North America, coming out of the very soul of the earth. Blood, sweat and tears enriched the fertile ground that formed the roots that fed the soul of the people. It exuded itself through the music, we are the blues.

Having grown up on the borderline of the USA, and picking up that great late night blues radio, coming clear from Detroit and Chicago, we grew up accustomed to blues power. It was coming from everywhere. It makes for a vast reservoir of musical knowledge and experience to draw from.

Livewire Blues Power plays classic recordings from the all-time blues greats, as well as blues from around the world rooted in the tradition, and Livewire Blues Power also introduces the music of the Soo’s blues artists to blues fans everywhere.

“IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE BLUES, YA GOTTA HOLE IN YER SOUL”

About Your Host

DANNY MOTT was born in England and raised in Canada. Danny has been involved in myriad recordings and in various countries, most notably in Jamaica and Cuba.

Danny’s music is released under the moniker, “Mocombo” where he acts as composer, producer, engineer and musician. Mocombo is a versatile band project that shifts effortlessly between world music, traditional blues, Cuban jazz and blues rock.

Danny has a rich academic background in music that includes various diplomas, degrees and certificates. Danny’s studies include; Classical guitar from the Algoma Conservatory of Music; Composition, performance, music history, music business and retailing from Humber College of Applied Arts; North Indian Hindustani classical music at the Academy Of Eastern Fine Arts; Adult teaching techniques for music at Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology; Music education at the University of Victoria; Studio recording from the Institute of Recording and Arts; Music theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music; Music and anthropology at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Dean’s Honour List; Religious traditions of Islam at the University of Waterloo.

Danny’s music performance and work history are also impressive. As a tour promoter, acts like Gordon Lightfoot and Ravi Shankar; as a music teacher at Nelson Music in B.C.; Music Marketing Director and music technician at Saved By Technology in Toronto, with a client list including the Rolling Stones, Rush, Barenaked Ladies, Jane Siberry, and many more; Marketing and Sales Director for On Publications Inc., a national distribution of music print medium company; Marketing Director for Roy Creations International in Montreal, for the Canadian Recording Industry Association.

Danny has orchestrated several projects, including a film in the Cuban language, with the participation of Cuba’s National Dance Company.

Danny’s project, Mocombo, has issued seven outstanding CDs: Odyssey, Zubie Zubie, Dreamscape, Flophouse Daddy, Flophouse Daddy Returns (Boldly Going Nowhere), Global 360 and Mocombo in Habana Project (2 CD set).

Danny Mott (with Jimmie Vaughan)

“Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.”

Date:19 September 2026 .