Not since the Pacific Railway Scandal of 1873 has Parliament Hill been rocked like it was Wednesday by Karkwa and The Sheepdogs.
Heritage Minister James Moore hosted his second music night at the National Arts Centre’s Studio for the political set. The minister was absent, having gone across the pond for the Diamond Jubilee in London and the PM’s meeting with France’s new president in Paris. So, Moore’s colleague Rona Ambrose filled in for him.
A bunch of MPs caught most of the show before heading back to work to do that “vote thing,” as so casually put by Sheepdogs frontman Ewan Currie in some brief onstage banter.
Among the sponsors was TD Canada Trust CEO Tim Hockey, who told the full house how he’d met The Sheepdogs backstage. He learned that the shaggy-haired retro rock band from Saskatoon survived off a $7,500 line of credit from his bank when it was getting started eight years ago. The bank is happy to take credit for the three-time Juno Award-winning band’s success and, why not? “We took all their interest,” Hockey kidded.
Sighted at the post-concert reception were such bigwigs from the music industry as Music Canada’s Graham Henderson, Deane Cameron (EMI Music Canada), Steve Kane (Warner Music Canada), and Shane Carter (Sony Music Entertainment Canada).
Members of The Sheepdogs were seen chowing down and chatting with fans while Karkwa frontman Louis-Jean Cormier was checking out a digital image Quebecor’s Serge Sasseville was eager to show him of a painting he owned. It was done by Ottawa-born artist Marc Séguin. His work is on Karkwa’s album cover for Les Chemins De Verre. That’s the album that won the francophone indie rock band from Montreal the 2010 Polaris Music Prize.
By Caroline Phillips, The Ottawa Citizen June 10, 2012
By Caroline Phillips, The Ottawa Citizen June 10, 2012
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