THE BLAZERS-Red Hot Blues Rock: BLOG *News updates

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

Here we go!!! Number 9, Number 9, Number 9...The Blazers new album is available at our live shows and on our website...soon on CD baby www.CDbaby.com ...we'll keep you posted! Of course it will be available @ our album release parties with free give aways T-shirts, CD's, download cards and more! Come join us live!!!

We had an awesome experience recording our debut album "RED HOT" with 3 JUNO award winners and appreciate all the support and guidance. We had a lot of fun in the studio and you will feel the high energy and creative spirit throughout in our music.

The band recorded and co-wrote with 3 JUNO AWARD winners :

Jack de Keyzer - Producer - plus played on 5 tracks with us.
Alec Fraser - Engineer (former Bass player with Jeff Healey, David Wilcox and now Jerome Godboo to name a few) Produced 3 Juno award winning albums!.
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 just to name a few.

***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 - http://www.timothyspub.ca/
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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 - http://foodpages.ca/HarpAndCrownPub

The Blazers new album RED HOT will be available just in time for the Southside Shuffle on Sat. Sept. 12th...hopefully you can join us with over 50 bands all weekend! Featuring David Wilcox, The Funk Brothers (yes), Downchild, Colin Linden, Lighthouse, Steve Grisbrook, Broken Joe & more.

We are @ The Lighthouse 105 Lakeshore Rd W from 2pm - 6pm.

http://www.Southsideshuffle.com

Hey hey...a comment about us in the Loose Blues News section of the Toronto Blues Society online and this months edition of The Maple Blues Magazine http://torontobluessociety.com/lbn.htm Thanks for the support! Comments below:

Blazers ready to blast off: The Blazers have finished recording their debut album and they report "it was an awesome experience!" The band recorded and co-wrote with 3 Juno winners : Jack de Keyzer produced and played on 5 tracks, Alec Fraser engineered the project and Al Lerman guested on sax and harmonica. David McMorrow was the keyboard player. The band previewed some of the new tracks when they opened for David Wilcox at Summerfest. Visit their website, www.theblazers.net and you can win a T-Shirt!

The master is complete and we've finished recording THE BLAZERS debut album, done!!!...it was an awesome experience!
We are looking forward to pre - releasing some tracks from the new album @ The Southside Shuffle on Sat. Sept 12th, drop by the Street Shuffle and pick up a free demo of our new CD...we are @ The Lighthouse from 2pm - 6pm. DAVID WILCOX will be there again too on the main stage @ 8:30pm.

***ALBUM RELEASE PARTIES***
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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 - http://www.timothyspub.ca/ ______________________
Sat. Oct 17th 9:30pm - 1:30pm
SPECIAL GUEST JUNO winner JACK de KEYZER
SPECIAL GUEST GUENTHER KAPELLE - WILD T & The Spirit
Harp & Crown - 300 Kingston Rd
Pickering, On - 905 509 6565 - http://foodpages.ca/HarpAndCrownPub The band recorded and co-wrote with 3 JUNO AWARD winners :

Jack de Keyzer - Producer - plus played on 5 tracks with us.
Alec Fraser - Engineer (former Bass player with Jeff Healey, David Wilcox and now Jerome Godboo to name a few) Produced 3 Juno award winning albums!
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 just to name a few.

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

Radio Play in Italy on Rock ‘n’ Blues Today! Thanks to Simone Bargelli...appreciate the support!

The album RED HOT is being released Oct. 17th @ The Harp & Crown – Pickering, On with Special guest Jack de Keyzer

Rock 'n' Blues Today playlist (RCC):
on air 01/09/09 time 9.00 pm
and 04/09/09 time 8.00 pm

Rock 'n' Blues Today is a Reporting Station to LIVING BLUES

“Rock ‘n’ Blues Today” is one of the oldest blues radio programs in Italy. It’s been on-air since March 1989 on the Umbrian local radio station called RadioRCC.

www.radiorcc.com/launch.html www.myspace.com/rocknbluestoday
Artist/track/Label

1 RJ Mischo - Good bad co. (don't worry) (Challis)
2 Motor City Women - Natch what you're doin' (Fordco Music)
3 Voxhall Blues - Shim sham shimmy (Last Buzz)
4 The Twisters - Doghouse (Northernblues)
5 Susie Arioli - Out of nowhere (World Village)
6 The Blazers - Keep it together (Self Release)
7 Velvetone - Lil' bad thing (Crosscut)
8 Gene Vincent - I flipped (Smith & Co.)
9 Wentus Blues Band - Biscuit roller (Ruf)
10 David Rotundo - Miss mistreating mama (Stone Pillar)
11 Jimmy Witherspoon - Skidrow blues (Music Avenue)
12 Woodbrain - Dig (Northernblues)
13 The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Switchblade 327 (Interscope)
14 Susan Tedeschi - Talking about (Verve Forecast)
15 John Hammond - Come on in my kitchen (Vanguard/Comet)
16 Leadbelly - Black snake moan (Blue Label/SPV)
17 Jimmie Vaughan - The ironic twist (Epic)

Hey hey...The Red Hot Blazers opened for David Wilcox last night! What a great night it was, the place was packed with 600 people and we had a great crowd response to our music. We gave away all our promo CD's with a sneak preview of some of the tracks off our new album coming up...check our music section and take a listen :)
91.9 BOB FM out of Lindsay, Ontario was there to emcee and sponsoring the event, they asked for one of our demo CD's and it will hopefully be played on their station...call them if you want to hear us on 91.9 BOB FM (705) 324-9103. Thanks again for coming out to the show...David Wilcox was awesome as usual. We are @ The Southside Shuffle next on Sat. Sept 12th 2pm - 6pm...David Wilcox will be on the main stage @ 8:30pm. Here we go again!!!

The master is complete and we've finished recording THE BLAZERS debut album, done!!!...it was an awesome experience!
The band recorded and co-wrote with 3 JUNO AWARD winners :

Jack de Keyzer - Producer - plus played on 5 tracks with us.
Alec Fraser - Engineer (former Bass player with Jeff Healey, David Wilcox and now Jerome Godboo to name a few) Produced 3 Juno award winning albums!
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 just to name a few.

We are looking forward to pre - releasing some tracks from the new album @ SUMMERFEST when we open for DAVID WILCOX on Aug 22nd.

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

Join our email list, 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!

DAVID WILCOX Ticket information
Sat. Aug. 22nd @ 9:00pm
THE BLAZERS OPENING for DAVID WILCOX
SUMMERFEST 2009 - Free Camping!!! Gambe bros. Midway rides
BBQ - Beer Garden - concessions - Slo Pitch Tourny & more!
Cannington Arena - 91 Elliot St, Cannington, ON - 4 Days Aug 20 - 23
* $35.00 ticket in advance only - 600 for sale.
Selling out fast like last time!
* Call 705-432-3238 or e-mail n.wright@personainternet.com
* Call 905 903 6060 or email bands@live.com