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Ian Thomas

About: Ian Thomas

Ian first hit internationally in 1973 with "Painted Ladies". With a Juno award, four SOCAN classic awards for Painted Ladies, Right Before Your Eyes, Hold On and Pilot, a UNICEF Danny Kaye Humanitarian award, Juno and Gemini nominations,15 albums and nearly as many top twenty records later, Ian has now added author to the mix with two novels, Bequest (Manor House 2006) and his latest The Lost Chord (Manor House 2008).

Ian’s lyrics have been utilized in English textbooks while his songs have found international success with many artists such as Santana, America, Manfred Man, Chicago, Bette Midler and Ann Murray. He also records and tours the country regularly with good friends Murray McLauchlan, Marc Jordan, and Cindy Church in a band called Lunch At Allen’s. From 1990 to 2000, Ian wrote &recorded four albums and toured with his band “The Boomers” who were comprised of some of the Canada’s finest musicians - Peter Cardinali, Rick Gratton and Bill Dylan. When you add twenty movies as a film composer, six seasons on the Red Green Show as character Dougie Franklin and over a thousand commercials voicing characters from Clive Firkin of Firkin Pubs to Snap the Rice Crispie, the credit list starts getting ridiculous.

2009 saw Ian touring both as a solo artist and with Lunch At Allen’s, while completing the music for the animated series The Adventures Of Bob and Doug McKenzie and scoring two Hallmark Movies, The National Tree and Fairfield Road. With the new Lunch At Allen’s CD completed and 2010 underway Ian is currently writing and recording a long awaited new solo album. To hear him live is to spend time with a master songsmith and humorist. Ian lives with his wife of nearly 40 years in the Niagara wine region of Ontario because he likes both wine and his wife.

Discography: http://www.ianthomas.ca/Ian_Thomas/Discography.html

Contact: Robert Wilson: bob@firebonesmanagement.com

Ian Thomas – Official Website

http://www.ianthomas.ca/
Ian Thomas - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Thomas_(Canadian_musician)
Ian Thomas – Last FM
http://www.last.fm/music/Ian+Thomas
Ian Thomas - Twitter
https://twitter.com/IanCThomas
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Ian Thomas - iTunes
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/ian-thomas/id26132996
Ian Thomas – Amazon
http://www.amazon.ca/Looking-Back-Hits-Ian-Thomas/dp/B0000262US

Christina Peoples – Official Website
http://www.christinapeoples.com/
Christina Peoples – Reverbnation
http://www.reverbnation.com/christinapeoples
Christina Peoples – Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Christina-Peoples/123666467688649

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Christina Peoples – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/tinasjak

About: Christina Peoples

Christina has shown a true passion and love for music and especially singing from a very young age. Born into a very musical family, she was surrounded by all types of music growing up from Classical to Classic Rock.

Influenced by her parents as well as several other members of her family, music became a huge part of her life early on. She performed in several musicals, concerts and operas throughout the years and had the honor to be chosen to sing as part of a small jazz ensemble with Doc Severensen at Phoenix Symphony Hall.

In recent years she has been chosen to sing the National Anthem for several major sporting events and recently was chosen to sing the National Anthem for the Freedom Rocks Concert with Phoenix based rock band CTS. With a vocal repertoire that includes several genres of musical styles such as Pop, Jazz, Broadway and Classical, Christina's YouTube channel has become extremely successful with currently over 5500 Subscribers.

Through YouTube, she has had her music featured on radio stations in Florida and the United Kingdom. Her YouTube listeners have described her voice as "ethereal and haunting," "pure and crystal clear,"

Christina currently lives in Phoenix, AZ with her husband and 3 children. She comes from a very musical background, all the way back to her Great-Grandmother who taught Randy Newman piano as a child. From an early age, Christina was surrounded by all styles of music, from Classical and Broadway to Classic Rock and Jazz. It became apparent at a young age that Christina was a gifted singer and musician. She also began piano lessons at the age of 6 and continued for several years. Music, especially singing, has always been her passion and joy.

Christina started her classic training at the age of 14 when she began private voice lessons. She went on to get her college degree in Voice Performance/ Opera from Arizona State University. Although she studied opera, Christina has always loved singing Pop, Broadway and especially Jazz. She has been influenced and inspired by several great artists including Barbra Streisand, Bette Middler, Frank Sinatra and her all-time favorite artist, Celine Dion. Even though she has studied the styles of these amazing singers, Christina's voice is one of a kind. She hopes to bring something new and exciting to the music world while keeping true to her classical background.

"a true joy to listen to." Her goal and dream is to have a very successful career doing what she loves, singing :)

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Christina Peoples
http://www.christinapeoples.com/Contact-Us.html

BIO: Pauline Alexander

Pauline Alexander is an emerging unsigned Scottish Singer-Songwriter based in Glasgow. Her music is extremely easy on the ear and encompasses Easy Listening, Folk or Acoustic elements. She cites Eva Cassidy, Joan Baez or Karen Carpenter as her main influences.

There are a growing band of radio stations playing her music at home or abroad. She was recently the recommended album of the week on BBC Radio Scotland with Iain Anderson. Something that was echoed by the listeners of Revival FM on Iain Arbuckle's radio show when they nominated her their favorite artist of the week .

2011 has been a busy year for Pauline as she has been performing at a number of festivals in Scotland. These have included The Arran Folk Festival in June, playing at Glasgow Cathedral for the Merchant City Festival and a performance at Perthshire Amber's Cabaret Amber concert on the 1st of November 2011.

In short, Pauline is a girl who sings with passion. Her vocals are reassuringly soft like velvet and easy on the ear.

Influential artists include, amongst others Joan Baez, The Carpenters and Eva Cassidy. Annie Lennox

Contact: 0795-194-1037

General Inquiries: pauline@paulinealexander.plus.com

Booking: bookings@paulinealexander.plus.com

Pauline Alexander – MySpace

http://www.myspace.com/paulinealexander
Pauline Alexander - Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/palexandersings
Pauline Alexander - Soundcloud
http://soundcloud.com/paulinealexander
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Pauline Alexander - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/1978WeePau
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About: Robin Rogers

Music has been my consuming passion ever since my days as a teenaged street singer. Possessing a deeply expressive and soulful voice and an infectious enthusiasm for the blues, my band and I have developed a devoted and growing following.

My Blind Pig debut, “Treat Me Right”, fulfills the promise of my previous two releases, revealing an accomplished artist of rare polish and originality.

In the late sixties when America's youth was "rediscovering the Blues," Robin Rogers was "living the Blues." As a runaway teen trying to escape a troubled home, she made my way to cities like Richmond, Virginia; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Atlanta, Georgia, and Coconut Grove, Florida. Living the hippie lifestyle of the times, even sharing residence in a commune in Love Valley, North Carolina for one summer, sometimes sleeping in parks, under picnic tables and in abandoned cars.

After serving time as a juvenile in reform school for truancy and being out of parental control, I was released at age 15 to begin life on my own. It was a hard life for a young girl, and it wasn't long until I was addicted to drugs and alcohol and, thank goodness, to singing! I eventually learned to play guitar and began accompanying myself. I performed on the streets, at parties and coffee houses for food and tips, setting the stage for the emergence of an independent, strong-willed spirit and charismatic singer. After hearing the applause of strangers, I knew I was hooked! My goal was to make a living performing music, and this I have done for over 30 years now.

As fate would have it, I became drug and alcohol free in 1989 and began to turn my life around. I moved to North Carolina in 1990, performing in the Southeast area for the next ten years, recording, writing and enjoying music clean and sober for the first time in many years. I got involved with the Charlotte Blues Society in the mid-nineties. Shortly after that, I met and married fellow musician and Blues lover, Tony Rogers. We performed as an acoustic duo, with Tony playing guitar/dobro and myself on harmonica and percussion. It wasn't too long before I was heard by producer/musician, Jim Brock and was asked to do a CD which was released in 2001 entitled "Time For Myself," a contemporary Blues record which contains six originals penned by myself and Tony.

I signed with Blind Pig in 2008, and my debut release for the label, “Treat Me Right”, was issued in June of that year. It’s a showcase formy stylistic variety and passionate vocal intensity, from the rolling r&b title track to the jazzy “Nobody Stays” to the soulful groove of “Nobody’s Gonna Hurt You.” It also features perhaps my most powerful composition, "Color-Blind Angel", a moving account of the life and death of white civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo, who was assassinated by the KKK in 1965. "Color-Blind Angel" won second place in the blues category of the 2007 International Songwriters Competition.

Update: Robin Rogers

On December 15, 2010, Robin learned that she had been nominated for a prestigious Blues Music Award in the category of Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year. On December 16, Robin asked Tony to please travel to the Blues Music Awards presentation in Memphis on May 5to accept the award on her behalf if she won. On December 17, Robin passed away peacefully at home.

On May 5^th, 2011 Robin won the Blues Female Artist of the Year. Those who knew her will all miss Robin terribly but it is comforting to know that her spirit is still with us and will live on forever through her music.