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Event

Title:: Greg Cockerill
When:: Fri, Dec 21
Where:: Twin Butte Country General Store - Twin Butte
Category:: Jazz

Description

Time: 8 p.m.

Cover:TBA

http://www.myspace.com/gregcockerill

http://www.gregcockerill.com/

Born in Montreal, Raised in Alberta and living in Toronto, Greg Cockerill’s music is unique expression of Canadiana. Growing up listening to classic albums from John Lennon and Neil Young amidst the exploding new rock scene of the early 90’s, picking up a guitar and playing in as many bands as he could was a burning necessity. Going on to formally study music and getting a double major degree in

composition/arranging and in jazz guitar at Toronto’s Humber College (2004), he found himself inevitably drawn back to his roots in Alberta, and his roots in music. In Calgary, Greg launched himself as a country guitar player on the scene as well as starting to write and sing his own original roots music. This quickly led to the formation of “the Greg Cockerill band” in 2007 which released its debut album “Summertime & Heartache” in may 2008 to zero critical reception yet regular cross-canadian radio play, a CBC 3 track of the day and 2 singles on regular rotation on CBC 2 and a separate single in Malaysia. Forever in pursuit of growth and Challenge, and inspired by Toronto artists such as Justin Rutledge, David Baxter and Corin Raymond among many others, in 2010 Greg Relocated to Toronto and re-formed a new Greg Cockerill band and joined up with his musical younger brother Joshua to produce “Festuca” along with Stew Crookes to be released October 4th 2011.