2 NorthernTroubadours
On Tour!
Brian and Will Gillespie are the 2 Northern Troubadours and they are coming to Northern Ontario city hear you!
Brian will be performing his album, In the Tracks of the Black Bear, a love letter to the Algoma Central Railway. Brian recorded six new original songs inspired by the ACR and the land it drives through and six traditional train songs all done in the roots/country/folk style. Brian's father, uncles, and cousins used to work for the railroad and his siblings were born in Northern Ontario rail towns. Stories of washouts, train wrecks, Gandy Dancers and the Northern Ontario landscape. If you love trains and train songs, you'll love this!
Will Gillespie has just released his latest full-length album "MINE! True Stories and Legends of the Porcupine Gold Rush". The album features 12 original Folk songs written in historical styles from Bluegrass to Ragtime to Barrelhouse Blues, Music Hall, Waltzes and MORE! telling real-life harrowing tales of adventure and perseverance from a forgotten chapter of Canadian history, taking the listener on a musical journey back in time to a world of prospectors, pioneers, bootlegger-bandits, high-graders, dog-sledders and moonshiners.