Blue Rodeo

Blue Rodeo will be stopping in Mt. Forest, ON on Thursday, January 25 where they’ll be playing at the Old Roxy Theatre.

The BlueRodeo.com Store will be having a presale for this show on Friday, December 22 at 11am EST. This is a Best Seats sale and we’re selling the first ten rows centre so be sure to get online right at 11am to get the best seats.

Oh Susanna will be playing a special “With Friends” show tonight, December 12, at Toronto’s Hugh’s Room (2261 Dundas St. W.). She will be joined by a ton of talented people including Jim Cuddy, Greg Keelor, Bob Egan and Andrew Cash. For more details, click here.

Finish off all your holiday shopping (at least for the Blue Rodeo fans in your life) with our great gift packs. They feature Blue Rodeo, Greg Keelor and Jim Cuddy items packaged together in a way that saves you money and makes the perfect present. One dollar from each gift pack sold will be donated to the Daily Bread Food Bank, one of Blue Rodeo’s favourite charities.

We’re also selling limited-edition BlueRodeo.com toques and scarves, the perfect items to stay warn on these cold winter days.

Glenn Milchem’s side project, The Swallows, are set to release their third full-length album on Friday, December 8. But over in the BlueRodeo.com Store, we’re already preselling this great mix of music that shows off Glenn’s versatility and talent.

To find out what the new album sounds like, stop by Glenn’s bio page.And if you live in or around Toronto, stop by the Cameron House on December 8 for the CD release party. The cover includes a copy of the new record.

CBC Radio’s annual “Canada Reads” competition has announced its 2007 reading list and our own Jim Cuddy has been named one of the five all-star panellists. Jim, whose literary selection won “Canada Reads” several years ago, is championing Timothy Taylor’s novel Stanley Park.

Jim faces some tough competition from his fellow panellists who include the Barenaked Ladies’ Steven Page and who are rooting for such diverse selections as Gabrielle Roy’s Governor General awarding-winning Children of My Heart and the Mumbai-based The Song of Kahunsha by Anosh Irani.

Jim and the other panellists will defend their choices starting on February 26 at 11:30am and 7:30pm (half an hour later in Newfoundland) on your local CBC One station.  The competition wraps on Friday, March 2, 2007. For more details on “Canada Reads” check out its website.

It’s finally here – the 2007 BlueRodeo.com calendar. As always, the calendar is packed with great photos of the band taken by fans just like you. Attractively designed, this item is the perfect way to bring a little Blue Rodeo into you house or office space. It also makes the ideal holiday gift for a fellow Blue Rodeo fan or for yourself.

Tickets are still available through Ticketmaster and at the door for Greg’s November 3 CD release party at Toronto’s Lee’s Palace. The party will be to celebrate the release of Greg’s new solo album Aphrodite Rose, now on sale over in the BlueRodeo.com Store. *Note: The Keelor Contest is now closed. Congrats to the winners.*

Greg will also be making at appearence on November 3 at Sam The Record Man (Yonge & Gould) where he will be performing an half-hour acoustic set starting at 6pm. Afterwards, he will be signing autographs and shaking hands. All in attendence at this event will be eligiable to win an Epiphone acoustic guitar autographed by Greg himself.

To celebrate Greg’s new record, we’ve created GregKeelor.com, a site packed with all things Greg including a personalized Greg Keelor ecard and an Interact section where you can submit reviews of Greg’s solo albums and solo shows.

* This contest is now closed. Congrats to our ten lucky winners who all knew that Jim’s favourite book of all-time is One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.*

On the afternoon of October 23, Jim Cuddy and his band will be in Toronto taping a segment for an upcoming CMT show. This performance will be filmed in front of a live studio audience and we here at JimCuddy.com have 10 pairs of tickets that will get fans into the taping. But we want to make sure that those tickets only end up in the hands of diehard Jim Cuddy fans. So in order to do this, we’ve come up with a trivia question that you need to answer correctly to be eligible for the draw: What is Jim Cuddy’s all-time favourite book?

Once you know the answer, please send your name and daytime phone number to [email protected]. When sending in your entry, be sure to put “CMT Contest” in the subject line.

This contest will close on Tuesday, Oct. 17 at 10am EDT. For more details on this contest, please click here.

Can you think of a better way to ring in the New Year? On Sunday, Decemeber 31, Blue Rodeo will take to the stage at Hamilton ON’s Copps Coliseum in what is sure to be one great night.

As usual, the BlueRodeo.com Store will be having a presale for this event. It will take place on Monday, September 25 at 11am EDT. Details on this show are now posted over in the Tickets portion of the Store.

Jim’s music video for “Pull Me Through,” the first single off his new solo album, can currently be viewed over on Iceberg Radio’s website. The site is also hosting a pair of video interviews with Jim.