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Vancouver freelance writer Chuck Davis is a remarkable generator of lists. No wonder his favourite sport is a game driven by statistics – baseball. His lists quickly develop into book ideas. The lists are then added to the stacks and rows of written material in the large workspace of his home. He has a youthful…
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Ronnie and Robert Crump – forever remembered as they were billed on posters, marquees and playbills as “The Crump Twins”, were two of the most recognizable entertainers in Vancouver from the late 1940’s to the early 1960’s. They notably performed on the same stage alongside Sammy Davis Jr. and Louis Armstrong. As a duo act,…
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Described as “the greatest exterior camera artist in the world,” Osmond Borradaile (1898-1999) was a pioneering cameraman whose footage of some of the most remote locales on the planet introduced moviegoers to the beauty of India, sub-Saharan Africa, and Antarctica at a time when few Westerners traveled outside of North America and Europe. Borradaile was…
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Website Doug Cox is an extremely talented six-stringer. As a young bluesman, this devotee of bottleneck slide guitar had a life-transforming moment nearly 30 years ago when he first picked up the dobro. That eerie, slightly plangent music resonated deep in his soul and changed everything. Doug is deeply embedded in the entire world of…
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Kenny Colman’s unique talents as a jazz vocalist have been widely praised by everyone from the New Yorker to the late dean of American jazz critics, Leonard Feather. His list of admirers include the Grammy-winning producer David Foster, producer/composer Johnny Mandel and his long-time friend and mentor, the late Frank Sinatra. Kenny was a fixture…
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