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The Free Radio Band is the collaboration between two great songwriters, a great guitarist and a young bass player/singer who adds a surprising direction to this veteran group.
Brought together through circumstance, the group met on the stage in Courtney B.C. Bill and Jas had just driven from Calgary in eleven hours, picking up Slim along the way.
Wyckham was waiting, Bill introduced Slim, and soon they took the stage in front of a full house. The response was immediate, both for the audience and the group itself. Three shows later the four of them were in the studio recording some songs together.
The Free Radio Band is more than just a group of people playing music together; with the addition of Jas' dance theatrics, the shows enter the realm of performance art.
Each of these artists is great on their own...together they are something special.
'Wyckham Porteous and Jas'
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(Please note: Special Guest availability varies - please contact Ted Crouch at Acoustic Avenue below, to enquire about tour availability)
Bill and Slim love to make music with musical friends. They enjoy spontaneous music, music that is alive in the moment, and they have discovered that making music with different musicians brings a freshness, a sense of 'nowness', to each performance. To veteran musicians like Bill and Slim, music that is alive in the moment is a necessity, like food or sleep or water.
The Free Radio Band, from the beginning, was intended to be an 'Open Consortium of Musicos'.
The Free Radio Band was born in April, 1993, at the now legendary Sidetrack Cafe in Edmonton, Canada. That inaugural show was a success, with packed houses and a hot dance floor. The band members at that time were Bill Bourne (guitar, harmonica and vocals - The Tannahill Weavers, Bourne and MacLeod, Tri-Continental), Jim Morison (bass/vocals - Stan Rogers, James Keelaghan, Bourne and MacLeod), Stu Mitchell (drums - The Privilege, Bourne and MacLeod) nd Jim Fitzgerald (guitar/vocals - Bourne and MacLeod).
For more information about The Free Radio Band, please contact Ted Crouch of Acoustic Avenue in Salmon Arm, B.C., Canada - at (250) 833 0339 or visit Acoustic Avenue
To book The Free Radio Band for concerts and dances in North America, please contact Bob Wilson at Live Tour Artists toll free at 866 400 1003 Ext. 242 - or CLICK HERE
Bill Bourne and Jas
'Madagascar Slim'
'Bill Bourne'
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