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The Blazers featured on 8tracks. Check out the new tunes - http://8tracks.com/bluesunderground007
The Blues Underground Network now proudly features 257 Artists, of which some of their music is featured here. Highlight Tracks From CD's Submitted To The Blues Underground Network...
Great Stuff... This Playlist Features Brad Wilson, Cry Baby & The Hoochie Coochie Boys, The Blazers, and More.
http://www.bluesundergroundnetwork.com/

Thanks to everyone who has joined the mailing list and signed the guestbook. Red Hot Album winners for Nov 2009:
Craig Thomas
Gail Franton

Radio play from 'Rockin' the Blues from Canada" at CKCU 93.1 FM - Nov 30th
- Diane Wells show AKA Misty Blue

Video Archives - Check out November 27th 2009 - Toronto Jay Show on THAT CHANNEL www.thatchannel.com Canada's #1 internet TV show - Guests include - Jersey Road Film Cast interviews, Music by The Blazers - RED HOT ROCKIN' BLUES, Spencer Miller and Joshua Mayhemm and naked model body painting - Listen: http://thatradio.podhoster.com/index.php?sid=1160

Blues Underground Network - November Featured Artists - The Blazers - check it out!
http://www.bluesundergroundnetwork.com/The_Blazers_CD.html - Keeping you in touch with the blues!

Stay tuned for a review on our new CD Red Hot and new songs will be posted on 8Tracks Mix, check out some of the best indie artists at www.bluesundergroundnetwork.com

Radio Play - song # 6 – Canadian Spotlight Artists
Playlist: Rue D’Auteuil, CKRL-fm 89.1 Quebec City , Nov. 20, 2009

Live on the air and on the web at www.ckrl.qc.ca every Friday night from 8 to 10, bringing the blues to Quebec and beyond.

ARTIST---ALBUM---SONG TITLE---LABEL
1-Billy Lavender---Memphis Livin---Singin the Blues---i55PRODUCTIONS
2- Billy Lavender---Memphis Livin---Delta Time---i55PRODUCTIONS
3-Red Man---Bleus Demons---Traquenard Blues---self
4-Alex Dixon ---Rising from the Bushes---Lose Control--- DIXON LANDING
5-Sugar Ray---Hands across the Table---Cloud Cover--- SEVERN

Canadian Spotlight
6-The Blazers---Red Hot---Keep it together--- ROUTE
7-Dawn Tyler Watson---Maple Blues live at Twisted Pines---One day at a Time---PRESERVATION
8-Twisters---Come out Swingin---I Refuse to get Old---NORTHERN BLUES
9-Jeff Healey---Songs from the Road---I Think I Love you too Much---STONY PLAIN
10-Shawn Kellerman---Blues without a Home---Love Is Sweet---FLAMING CHEESE

Blink blink...yes, I know...

The Blazers are looking forward to being on The Toronto Jay show this Friday Nov. 27th @ 2pm – www.Thatchannel.com The Blazers will be rockin' the studio with Chris Burrell and Pat McPhail from the all Toronto Firefighter band Firesound!!!

Toronto Jay Variety Show; Fri. Nov. 27th 2009 - Guests include - "JERSEY ROAD" 'film clips' - cast members - Daniel Reininghaus, Ted Neal, Andrew Ferguson, Chris Scarpelli +, Joshua "body painting" Mayhemm & his gorgeous naked models and the kick-ass band - The 'BLAZERS' featuring Pete Cohan – http://TheBlazers.net www.thatchannel.com www.torontojay.wordpress.com

More feedback in our guestbook and press section...please sign the guestbook and give us your thoughts :) Thank you.

November 2, 2009 - Bradley Walker
"Hey Pete. I had a great time at the Earl. The CD of yours is so good my buddy wanted to take it! He loved it too."

October 26, 2009 - Lyle Jaques
"Great music, great time at your show. We played your cd all the way home from the Crown. My 18 year old son and his buddies think it is awesome too so it isn't just us old people ;-)."

October 11, 2009 - Devon & Kathy
"Amazing CD, we listened to it on the way home from the CD relese party. Thanks"

October 5, 2009 - Greg Morrison
"Hey, what a super mix of songs. I really enjoy the album and I've been playing it non stop over the last few days. I wake up... "

Thanks to everyone who has joined the mailing list and signed the guestbook. Red Hot Album winners for Oct 2009:

Terry Risebrough
Veronica Rock
Lyle Jaques

Hi, Thanks to you guys we raised $220 for Alec Fraser in the month of OCT. If you don't know Alec Fraser, he is a veteran blues, rock and country bass player and vocalist. He has played... with Jeff Healey, Danny Marks, Ben E. King, Bo Diddley...the list goes on. He has also won multiple Juno and Maple Blues awards for his productions. Most of all, Alec is a genuinely good guy and a respected musician. Alec co- wrote & engineered our new CD RED HOT and played on the track "Wake Up", he also gave us great guidance during the recording sessions in Jack de Keyzer's studio. Alec has a rare infection (MRSA) that is putting his life and health in jeopardy, Sharron & I attended the Oct 19th fundraiser @ The Silver Dollar. They raised alot of $$$ for Alec in his time of need, there is another fundraiser @ Roc N Docs in Port Credit tonight...the support keeps rolling on. All the best Alec and get well very soon!

MRSA infection is caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria — often called "staph." MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It's a strain of staph that's resistant to the broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to treat it. MRSA can be fatal.

Great Halloween Party @ The Earl! It was a packed house @ The Earl and we played pass 2:00AM with 3 encores, thanks for all the support and CD sales. We gave away CD's & T-Shirts for best costume, couple, most original and worst. Scott from The Earl gave away a Bar fridge to best costume - Dog The Bounty Hunter. The Chickens won best couple, the hick/beer belly farting machine won most original and The Flasher (you know who you are :) won worst, he won a $50 gift cert. for getting a costume for next year...nice. The Cat in The Hat ruled, we had to give him a prize!
The Band was dressed as The Reservoir Dogs , I was Mr. Pink (Pete), Josh was Mr. White, Chris was Mr. Blonde and Andrew was Mr. Brown (he died early ;) The Cops and EMS closed out the night! Great photos of the chickens getting run over by the ambulance vechile...5 cop cars were there @ 2:10am...just enough time for us to escape with the diamonds :)

See you live!

Hey hey...we played Lou Dawg's in Toronto last night! We pulled out all the blues and had a super time, good friends dropped by and some we haven't seen for awhile. Jamie Wilson came up and sang a tune with us "Call It Stormy Monday" she did a great job and she has a fantastic voice...we'll have her up again for sure...this time for more songs. What a treat on Halloween :) and not even scary!
But tonight! Halloween Costume Party! we are back at The Earl in Stouffville, these guys know how to party...we've done a few parties there and it's always a great time...we'll keep you posted!

Happy Halloween everyone...be safe and drive safe, look out for the kiddies :)

Join our email list or sign the guestbook, we'll keep you entertained and informed on current events and future gigs!
Plus every month we randomly pick a fan that has joined our email list and send them a download card of our debut album...Thanks!

Check your smoke alarms!

2 gigs booked for Halloween! It's always a blast to play Halloween weekend and it falls on a Fri. & Sat.!!!

Friday, October 30th, 2009
Lou Dawg's
Halloween Party @ Lou Dawg's - The Monster Mash!!! - 10:30pm - 2:00pm
589 King St. West
Toronto Ontario M5V 1MS
CA 647 347 3294
Price: Trick or Treat!
Yes Yes...it's Halloween @ the stroke of midnight, if you know what I mean ;) So let Party on Halloween weekend, Friday and Saturday night are Scary Boo...yes well be doing the Monster Mash and causing fright and alarm....and yes, we'll be burning down the house with some Red Hot Rockin' Rhythm & Blues!

So come join the fun @ Lou Dawg's on Oct 30th just before midnight! It's Halloween!!!

Saturday, October 31st, 2009
The Earl of Whitchurch
Halloween Party - Monster Mash Bash!!! - 9:30pm - 1:00am
6204 Main St
Stouffville Ontario L4A 2S5
CA 905-642-3275
Boo!!!...The Blazers are burning down the house @ The Earl on Halloween. Come one come all and do that trick or treat thing :)

The latest edition of Hambone's Blues Rumshack podcast is now available at www.therumshack.com. Should be something for everyone here.

Playlist Oct 22 2009

The Blazers - Keep It Together - Red Hot
The Blazers - Flavour of the Year - Red Hot
Harry Manx - True to Yourself - Bread and Buddha
Harry Manx - Dew on Roses - Bread and Buddha
Blues Sans Frontieres - Who Do You Love - Demo
Doug Cox & Salil Bhatt - Pay Day - Slide From Freedom
Sean Chambers - In The Winter Time - Ten Til Midnight
Jake Lear - Boogie Woogie Woman - Lost Time Blues
The Aces - Knee Deep In Mud - No One Rides For Free
Cry Baby - Don't Lie To Me baby - Salt Glazed Blues EP
Cry baby - Ain't Nothin But The Blues - Salt Glazed Blues EP
Kris Dolimore - Asylum - Now Was the Time
Kris Dolimore - Saudade - Now Was The Time
John Fahey - Steamboat - Live In Tasmania

Playing all shades of blues from all around the world

Thank you very much for supporting the 911 relay. Firefighters, EMS and Police fought it out for the Chocolate Cup. The Firefighters needed 1 more to complete the team of 6 and me being a Toronto Firefighter I stepped in and completed the team…after much eating of Chocolate and 2 events each the tag teams raised $$$ for Prostate & Breast Cancer research initiatives for Princess Margaret Hospital and a portion of the proceeds from The Chocolate Ball are in support of The Ava Rose Fund at Sick Kids Hospital…so a fantastic turn out and a lot of fun. By the way…we won! The Toronto Firefighters hold the Chocolate cup title for 2009…buuurrrppppp. Excuse me :)

Tonight! The Blazers @ Alley Catz Wed. Oct 21st 6:30pm 9-1-1 Chocolate Relay of Firefighters, Police and Paramedics will fight to the finish, as each team battles it out to beat the clock and win the coveted CFW Chocolate Bowl by devouring chocolate - and more chocolate. The title is currently held by the Marine Police Unit of the Metropolitan Toronto Police.
A portion of the proceeds from these events (excluding The Chocolate Ball) will be donated to Prostate & Breast Cancer research initiatives and a portion of the proceeds from The Chocolate Ball are in support of The Ava Rose Fund at Sick Kids Hospital.

The Blazers CD Release party was a fantastic night, the place was packed well into the last set of tunes...thank you so much for all the support and for buying the new CD. Jack de Keyzer was awesome as usual and we appreciate his support with our new... album RED HOT. Jack produced our CD and played on 5 tracks...sign the guestbook and let us know what you think!

Hi,

Thanks to everyone who came out to our westend CD release party on Oct 10th, what a blast it was and it was a great turnout and we really appreciate the support! JUNO winner Al Lerman & Guenther Kapelle from Wild T were fabulous as usual, we've had them as guests many times before and they were awesome! This Sat. eastend CD release party with special guest JUNO winner JACK de KEYZER! It's sure to be a great time and I hope we pack the place again! Come on out and join the party!

Sat. Oct 17th 9:30pm - 1:30pm
SPECIAL GUEST JUNO winner JACK de KEYZER
Harp & Crown - 300 Kingston Rd Pickering, On - 905 509 6565

THE BLAZERS - "RED HOT ROCKIN' RHYTHM & BLUES" with infectiously danceable funky grooves that straddle the line where Rhythm & Blues meet Rock with exuberance that's impossible to resist!

Congrats to Jimmy Carlyle, he wins for the month of Sept. Thanks for joining the club and email list!

Every month we randomly pick a fan that has joined our email list and send them a *free* download card of our debut album and a *free* T-Shirt...we appreciate your support!

Toronto Blues Society – CD Review – Oct 2009 issue - John Valenteyn - http://www.torontobluessociety.com
The Blazers - Red Hot - Route Records

This group of veteran players have been working together for six years (they were previously known as The Jukes) and they style their music as “kick ass rockin’ blues”. Pete Cohan is the singer; Josh Gordan’s on guitar, Chris Craig is on drums and Andrew Taylor plays bass. They have some famous friends: Jack de Keyzer produced this disc and added guitar on 5 songs, Al Lerman guests on harp & sax throughout, David McMorrow guests on keys and Alec Fraser recorded the proceedings. With good material, this is a guaranteed recipe for success in my opinion. They have the material, much of it written by Cohan & Gordon. Cohan is a very good singer, switching easily from the rocking blues of “Flavour of the Year” to the soul sound of “I Love You, Eternally” to the slow blues “Never Gonna Cry Again” or the funky, Stones-ish “Wake Up”. “The King’s Highway” is their contribution to road songs and it’s a very good one. It should get everyone up dancing and yelling when their town comes up. Nice harp from Lerman. “Flavour of the Year” & “Wake Up” are other highlights. There are a couple of CD Release Parties: Timothy’s Pub at 344 Brown’s Line in Etobicoke on October 10th and at The Harp & Crown, in Pickering at 300 Kingston Road on Saturday, October 17th. Find out more at www.theblazers.net

Good day, hope all is well.

We'd like to help out.

Alec Fraser helped us out so much this past summer with great advice and support when we recorded our debut album with Jack de Keyzer, Alec engineered, co-wrote and played on the song “Wake Up” on our new RED HOT album and Alec even told me to bring the video camera and video taped a video for us and offered to edit it...we sincerely appreciated everything he did for us, it was very cool of him to do :)

So it’s time to give back in his time of need, The Blazers are donating $5.00 to Alec Fraser (who is recovering from a serious illness and we’d like to help with medical expenses) from every album we sell at our 2 CD release parties and also $5.00 from every album we sell in the month of October. We’ve sold over 20 CD’s so far before the official release and we hope to sell many more. Details @ http://www.TheBlazers.net If you don't know Alec Fraser, he is a veteran blues, rock and country bass player and vocalist. He has produced 3 Juno award winning albums and played with Jeff Healey, Danny Marks, Ben E. King, Bo Diddley, David Wilcox...the list goes on. He has also won multiple Juno and Maple Blues awards for his productions. Alec is a genuinely good person and a highly respected musician.

The band recorded and co-wrote with 3 JUNO AWARD winners - Take listen to our 4 of our new tunes @ http://www.TheBlazers.net
*Jack de Keyzer - Producer - plus played on 5 tracks with us.
*Alec Fraser - Engineer (former Bass player with Jeff Healey, David Wilcox and many more, now w/Jerome Godboo & Broken Joe)!
*Al Lerman - Sax and Harmonica - leader of the 2 x Juno winning band FATHEAD.
*David McMorrow - Piano/organ - played with Rough Trade and formed the band Berlin etc...

***ALBUM RELEASE PARTIES***

Sat. Oct 10th 9:30 - 1:30pm
SPECIAL GUEST 2 x JUNO winner AL LERMAN
SPECIAL GUEST GUENTHER KAPELLE - WILD T & The Spirit
Timothy's Pub - 344 Brown’s Line
Etobicoke, On - 416 201 9515 -

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Sat. Oct 17th 9:30pm - 1:30pm
SPECIAL GUEST JUNO winner JACK de KEYZER
Harp & Crown - 300 Kingston Rd
Pickering, On - 905 509 6565

See you live!!! Thanks for all the support!!!

***Upcoming gigs and fundraisers***

***FYI - “Blues For Alec Fraser Fund Raiser” ***
Steve Strongman & Jerome Godboo w/ special

Monday Oct 19th @ the Silver Dollar Room, - 6:00 pm
486 Spadina Ave, Toronto

Don’t forget about the “Blues For Alec Fraser Fund Raiser” Steve Strongman & Jerome Godboo w/ special guests 8pm $20.00 - All proceeds to assist with Alec Fraser's medical expenses, info@thetorontobluessociety.com Dinner reservations available contact thesilverdollarroom@hotmail.com doors open at 6pm

Friday, October 30th, 2009 - The Blazers are donating $5.00 from CD’ sold to Alec Fraser
Lou Dawg's
Halloween Party @ Lou Dawg's - The Monster Mash!!! - 10:30pm - 2:00pm
589 King St. West, Toronto Ontario 647 347 3294
Price: Trick or Treat!

Saturday, October 31st, 2009 - The Blazers are donating $5.00 from CD’ sold to Alec Fraser
The Earl of Whitchurch
Halloween Party - Monster Mash Bash!!! - 9:30pm - 1:00am
6204 Main StStouffville Ontario 905-642-3275

Thank you for the support!

Let The Good Times Roll, CIUT-FM, 89.5, Toronto,
Thursday 24/9/09, 3pm -5 pm & at www.ciut.fm.

ARTIST/ALBUM/LABEL/SELECTION/CANADIAN
1. Albert King/Funky London/Stax/Funky London
2. Fathead/Building Full Of Blues/Electro-Fi/Building Full Of Blues (C)
3. Big Rude Jake/Quicksand/Self/Preacher's Got A Brother (C)
4. Siegel - Schwall Band/Three Pieces For Blues Band & Orchestra/DGG/
3rd Part
5. Madagascar Slim/Good Life Good Living/MS/Boribory (C)
6. Son of Dave/O3/Sparks/Nike Town (C)
7. John Bottomley/The Mountain Hammered, Vol. 1/Crane/Bag/Bowen
Island Blues (C)
8. Corey Harris/Blu.Black/Telarc/Blues
9. Maria Muldaur/& Her Garden of Joy/Stony Plain/Bank Failure Blues
10. Harrison Kennedy/One Dog Barkin'/Electro-Fi/One Dog Barkin' (C)
11. Joe Louis Walker/Between A Rock & The Blues/Stony Plain/If
There's A Heaven
12. Rick Jeffery/13 Vultures/Indie/13 Vultures (C)
13. Tracy K/Old, New, Borrowed & Blues/Self/Broken & Blue (C)
14. Harry Manx/Bread and Buddha/Dog My Cat/Moon Goin' Down (C)
15. The Blazers/Red Hot/Self/The King's Highway (C)

Go ahead and sign our guestbook, let us know what you think about our music, live shows and anything else you'd like to tell us.
Thanks for your comments.

We spent 15 hrs @ The Southside Shuffle Blues and Jazz Festival and had a great time playing at our spot under The Lighthouse. The street shuffle was packed again and we went to see our friend Steve Grisbrook rock it up @ The Harp...awesome as usual. Then saw... Al Lerman jam with Max Bent & Mo' Kauffey, then off to the Legion Jam until 3am to see Johnny Max & his so called friends. Great day and a great event, see ya next year!

www.southsideshuffle.com