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Zach Bury hit the stage on a Saturday night in January 2026 to a sold-out performance at the Oddfellows Hall in his hometown of Ste. Catharines, Ontario. Already a fixture in the live Niagara region music scene, the young, emerging artist took this occasion to get his music professionally recorded live off the floor.
Zach’s set featured a powerful array of original tunes delivered with the confidence of a man on a mission to express his life through his considerable art. Playing acoustic guitar and keyboards, Zach, accompanied by exceptional violinist, Danielle Marconi, and with a spirited crowd in support, the resulting tracks left a clear message that this is an artist in full control and on the path to great things.

Date:11 August 2026 .

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

s5.e8. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour – Six Nations & Lake Erie Influence

Iroquois allied Nations moved north of Lake Erie from their traditional New York homeland after the American Revolution and many years later the monumentally engineered canal system to the Atlantic Ocean set a path for historic social and economic change for an entire continent.

Ashley Quimby-Simoni, Outreach Director of Erie Canalway, celebrates over 200 years in continuous operation making Erie Canal in New York the longest constructed transportation system on the continent.

Scott Robertson, member of Six Nations of the Grand River and legal counsel dedicated to improving the quality of life, wealth and prosperity for First Nation communities while preserving the unique identity of Canada’s original inhabitants.

Cat Clyde is a Métis artist out of Perth County, Ontario and the broader traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee, breathing new life into protest song with the classic sounds of yesteryear.

Featured Music: Ode’Min Kwe Singers. The Weavers. Golden Eagle String Band. Jen Tucker. Cat Clyde.
Music beds: Roddy Elias & Matt Warnock. Lead Belly.
Theme music: Ray Bonneville. Rusty McCarthy.

Painting: Like Father Like Daughter by Doug Bradford

s5.e8. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour Music Credits

Title – Big Five Water
Artist / Composer – Ray Bonneville

Title – Haudenosaunee Round Dance
Album – New Moon Medicine
Artist – Ode’Min Kwe Singers
Composer – Traditional

Title: Lake Erie Shore
Artist: Jen Tucker
Album: Occidental Journey

Title – The E-Ri-E Canal
Artist – The Weavers
Composer – Roger Ames
Album – The Weavers

Title – Chrysalis
Artist – Roddy Ellias & Matt Warnock
Album: St. Marys Sunrise

Title – Time
Artist – Roddy Ellias & Matt Warnock
Album – St. Marys Sunrise

Title – St. Marys Sunrise Part 1
Artist – Roddy Ellias & Matt Warnock
Album – St. Marys Sunrise

Title – A Trip on the Erie
Album – Grand Canal Ballads: History of the Erie Canal
Artist – The Golden Eagle String Band

Title – Longest Walk
Artist – Ode’Min Kwe Singers
Album – New Moon Medicine

Title – The Gloom
Artist / Composer – Cat Clyde
Album – Down Rounder

Title – Where Did you Sleep Last Night
Artist – Lead Belly
Composer – Huddie Ledbetter
Album – Leadbelly – Where Did you Sleep Last Night

Title – Mr. Hitler
Artist – Lead Belly
Composer – Huddie Ledbetter & Alan Lomax
Album – Leadbelly – Let It Shine On Me

Title – Tear The System Down
Artist / Composer – Cat Clyde
Album – Down Rounder

Title – Papa Took My Totems
Artist / Composer – Cat Clyde
Album – Down Rounder

Title – I Feel It
Artist / Composer – Cat Clyde
Album – Down Rounder

Visit: raybonneville.com

Visit: rustyandmaja.com

Visit: facebook.com/odeminkwesingers

Visit: jentucker.bandcamp.com/lake-erie-shore

Visit: eriecanalway.org

Visit: metalliclaw.com

Visit: folkways.si.edu/leadbelly

Visit: catclydemusic.com

Visit: bradfordartshow.wordpress.com/doug-bradford

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

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:9 August 2026 .

LIVEWIRE BLUES POWER is powered by the support of Long & McQuade, 647 MacDonald Ave, Sault Ste. Marie, ON

JAY SCALI LIVE! (part 2)

Watermelon Man
Eleanor Rigby
Too Many Dirty Dishes
Good Morning Little School Girls

LIVEWIRE BLUES POWER with Host 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”

Danny Mott (with Jimmy Vaughan)

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 ongoing music experiment, 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).

“White folks hear the blues come out, but they don’t know how it got there.”

Date:7 August 2026 .

Matthew James is a Sault Ste. Marie-based songwriter and musician, originally from Uxbridge, Ontario. Good Talk is a work that took a few years to arrive at, a 4-song EP that is officially Matthew’s first release.

His lyrical sensibility and style has been meticulously crafted through theatrical story-telling, as well as a penchant for the heartbreaking, yearning, and honest poetry of Joni Mitchell, Harry Chapin, James Taylor, etc.. His percussive acoustic sound and expressive live performances spring an outpouring of nostalgia. He is not one to miss.

“… I put my whole heart into creating it. I wanted to explore the feeling of frustration and anger that comes with betrayal. At first, you’re in shock, but after a couple of minutes you start looking for an outlet or something to place the blame. Sometimes people lash out, but in this track I was more interested in the subtlety and passive feelings of bitterness. Like, if someone walks away while you’re saying something important and your just like “…okay cool, Good Talk, Good Talk…” I wanted to capture that feeling. I love this song, and I hope it allows you a couple minutes to vent when you’re in that place! Peace and Love” – Matthew James

Vocals, Guitar – Matthew James
Drums, Percussion – Matthew Woodcroft
Electric Guitar, Bass – Colton Maddigan

Produced, Engineered, & Mixed by: Colton Maddigan
Mastered by: Noah Mintz Mastering
Recorded at: Chalet Studios

Running time: 38 minutes.

Date:6 August 2026 .

The Algoma Fibre to Fabric Festival is an annual regional event celebrating local textile arts, fibre production, and heritage craft skills. The festival takes place on August 8, 2026, from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm at the Johnson Township Community Centre (1 Cameron Dr, Desbarats, Ontario).

An annual celebration of Algoma’s fibre arts community, showcasing the journey from raw fleece to beautifully crafted yarns and handmade goods. The festival features vendors market, workshops, demonstrations, live animals, a Kid’s Zone, and a drop in crafting circle! This is a fun event for everyone including those who know nothing about the fibre arts and want to see what it’s all about, to experienced crafters looking for inspiration and community.

Festival entry by donation.

Vibrant Fibre Arts Market – Visit our vendors’ market featuring fibre producers, yarn and fabric sellers, crafters, textile artists, and more. It’s the perfect place to get inspired, shop for unique gifts, and discover talented local makers Nearly 40 vendors featuring local fibre producers, yarn and fabric sellers, and textile artists.

Live Demonstrations & Animals – On-site sheep and alpacas alongside hands-on crafting demos like basket weaving, spinning, and quilting.

Workshops – Interactive sessions and specialized classes (such as pine needle basket weaving) available for registration.

Kid Zone – Free crafting and play zone for kids to learn about fibre, animals and heritage crafting.

The Algoma Fibre to Fabric Festival is brought to you by organizing partners Johnson Farmers’ Market, Birchgrove Farms, and Shabby Motley Handcraft, with the support of our generous sponsors and visitor contributions. The Creative Basket. The Copper Bean Cafe.

2026 VENDORS

Lily Garden Designs/Lily Garden Books
Beverley Ann Art
Krysallyss Kreations
Handcrafted by Amanda
Northern Warmth Co.
Meadowview Alpaca Farm
Junk Jam Studio
Weavers’ Guild
Knotted Threads Inc.
Shabby Motley
Skookum Lake Treasures
Mominsault_trade and Knitsby.diana
Alpaca-Socks.ca
The Little House Homestead
Norathern Crochet
Decks Out Back
Shelridge Yarns
Northern Skies Resort
Southpaw Woolery & Supply
Lace and Link Co.
The Creative Basket
Off the Wall Sisters
In a New Light
ChainBeauty
Birchgrove Farms
Dragon Strings
Jeff Dixon visual artist
Rewind Yarns
Yarned Treasures by Melynne
MS Enterprises
Algoma Weavers’ Guild

Running time: 24 minutes.

Date:5 August 2026 .

Connect The Dots is a registered charity in Sault STE. Marie, Ontario that operates entirely on volunteer good works. The simple objective is to to rescue good surplus food from several locations and distribute the food to stock the shelves of the many excellent agencies that care for the people in need within the Algoma community. Agencies such as Harvest Algoma, The Salvation Army, The Soup Kitchen Community Centre, Vincent’s Place, S.O.Y.A., and others, are able to provide for those in need when they Connect The Dots.

Tim Kelly explored an idea to help feed those in his community that are having a difficult time with feeding themselves. And in 2017, Tim Kelly founded the non-profit organization CONNECT THE DOTS.

Black Fly Jam is proud to partner with Connect The Dots to support their mission of food rescue and delivery. A belief in building community is one thing, actually supporting the builders is an honour for all of us!

Thursday October 2nd, please come enjoy!
Tia McGraff with Tommy Parham – A Benefit Concert for Connect The Dots
@ THE LOFT Algoma Conservatory of Music, 75 Huron St. SSM
Doors open 6:30 * Showtime 7:30
$40 and zero online fees!
algomaconservatory.com/tia-mcgraff-tommy-parham-concert-for-connect-the-dots

Running time: 24 minutes.

Date:5 August 2026 .

Makayla Webkamigad was commissioned in 2023 to write for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.

“This poem is very special to me and is my first published piece.

I wrote this, as a love letter to my nieces, being truthful about our family, but also being gentle, in the important role of an auntie.

Nowadays there are a lot of negative connotations behind that word, Auntie.

I wanted to use it in the traditional way, the way I was taught. A crucial role in our family system as indigenous people. Sharing love, knowledge and teachings.

Thankful to my family, for the work they did, for the knowledge passed onto me so that I hold as much information as I can about my family history, and our history as Anishinaabe people. My grandparents who all attended residential school, my parents who both attended day schools, and the legacy of resiliency I was born into. A story that a lot of us share, a story so common for our families. All across turtle island.

Miigwech to TRC for entrusting me to continue my family’s work.

To all the nieces and nephews who have an auntie or uncle that loves and supports them in everything. The ones who are there, consistently.”

Date:4 August 2026 .

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

s5.e7. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour – Destination At The Heart

The magnificent waters of the Great Lakes have a way of leaving their permanent mark on those beings that visit them and so it is at the Island of the Great Spirit known as Manitoulin.

Lynda Trudeau gives the history of the Debajehmujig Storytellers, a First Nations theatre group and multi-arts organization based in the Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron.

Waubgeshig Rice. John Hartig. John Cal Freeman. Bob Cailor. Steve Windom. Susan Campbell. Steve Nelson. Joe Reilly. Bruce Lynn. Patricia Majher. Great Lakes Odyssey guests share their watermarks.

Tia McGraff, raised on Lake Erie shores at Port Dover, and partner Tommy Parham, have a gift for ‘getting to the heart of the matter’ and writing relatable songs about life, love and this crazy world we live in.

Featured Music: Rae Spoon. David Campbell. Tia McGraff & Tommy Parnham.
Music beds: Doug Wilde. Kevin Closs. Rusty McCarthy. Michigan Weather.
Theme music: Ray Bonneville. Rusty McCarthy.

Painting: Offerings For The Ancestors by Tom Sinclair

s5.e7. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour Music Credits

Title – Big Five Water
Artist / Composer – Ray Bonneville

Title – Waterbound
Artist / Composer – Tyler Dettloff

Title – Water Music
Album – The Sixth Dimension
Artist / Composer – Doug Wilde

Title – Great Lakes
Artist / Composer – Rae Spoon
Album – Superioryouareinferior

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

Title – The Great Manitou
Album – Nocturnes
Artist / Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Mindemoya
Artist / Composer – David Campbell
Album – Song

Title – In Deep
Artist / Composer – Kevin Closs
Album – Sans Voix

Title – Bucks Back
Artist / Composer – Kevin Closs
Album – Sans Voix

Title – Beagle
Artist / Composer – Kevin Closs
Album – Sans Voix

Title – Manitoulin
Artist / Composer – David Campbell
Album – Pretty Brown

Title – Manitoulin
Artist / Composer – Kevin Closs
Album – Heart’s End

Title – On Georgian Bay
Album – Nocturnes
Artist / Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Chrysalis
Album – Outtakes
Artist / Composer – Michigan Weather

Title – Safe Harbour
Album – Nocturnes
Artist / Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Gitchi Gami
Album – Nocturnes
Artist / Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Night Voyage
Album – Nocturnes
Artist / Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Michigan Twilight
Album – Nocturnes
Artist / Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Wolfhead
Album – Nocturnes
Artist / Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Fisherman’s Song
Artist / Composer – Tia McGraff & Tommy Parnham

Title – Whiskey Ship
Artist / Composer – Tia McGraff & Tommy Parnham
Album – Break These Chains

Title – Abigail
Artist / Composer – Tia McGraff & Tommy Parnham
Album – Break These Chains

Visit: raybonneville.com

Visit: rustyandmaja.com

Visit: tylerdettloff.com

Visit: raespoon.ca

Visit: facebook.com/davidcampbellsongmaker

Visit: facebook.com/DebajehmujigStorytellers

Visit: kevincloss.com

Visit: dougwilde.com

Visit: tiamcgraff.com

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

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:2 August 2026 .

LIVEWIRE BLUES POWER is powered by the support of Long & McQuade, 647 MacDonald Ave, Sault Ste. Marie, ON

JAY SCALI LIVE! (part 1)

Summertime
C Jam Blues
Take the “A’ Train
S.S.M. Blues
Blues for Herbie
Hootchie Kootchie Man
I’m Ready

LIVEWIRE BLUES POWER with Host 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”

Danny Mott (with Jimmy Vaughan)

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 ongoing music experiment, 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).

“Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.”

Date:31 July 2026 .

Wax Mannequin is the stage name of Chris Adeney, a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter. His style has been described as “a hybrid of Bruce Cockburn and Frank Zappa”, “Tom Waits and Type O Negative jamming on the early Beatles catalogue”, and “Rheostatics via Savatage”. Carl Wilson of The Globe and Mail noted that “crowds are often baffled whether to be awed, irritated or amused by Wax’s all-rockets-flaring, un-Canadian-like extravagant performances.” (Wikipedia)

“The Obelisk” sees Adeney set the stage for the new record, which is said to be his most personal yet, detailing the singer-songwriter’s feelings of alienation through coping with neurodivergence. Driven by a rollicking, folksy guitar progression, he envisions himself as a monument to not merely surviving, but thriving in a world that you don’t quite feel as though you were made for. (Exclaim! magazine)

The music veers from scrappy folk and art punk to absurdist stadium metal, churning with dark humour. Beneath unsettling imagery and musical twists there is a steady questioning of life’s strangeness and his own neurodivergence. Wax has appeared on thousands of pub, gallery and festival stages worldwide. (Bandcamp)

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Date:30 July 2026 .