David Celia

Singer songwriter David Celia released his new CD "I Tried" at Hugh's Room on June 10th 2010. The band included David on vocals and guitars, Joan Besen on keys, Mia Sheard background vocals, Cleave Anderson on drums and Derrick Brady on bass. David also had trombonist Al Kay and Ron Korb playing flute. Ron played on two of the songs on the record. David is now touring in Europe.

Radio Taping at CIUT

This morning we recorded five of Jim McCarty's songs live in the studio for CIUT radio at their lovely studios in Hart House at the University Of Toronto.  The taping was videotaped and perhaps will be posted on youtube in the future. In the photo from left to right we have: George Koller, Jim McCarty, Ron Korb, Mike Bowell, and Donald Quan.  This is the University I attended and visiting it today brought back many memories.

Jim McCarty's show at Hugh's Room

Set up at Hugh’s Room at 4:30 and did a quick soundcheck. Larry Crowe our drummer was holding a drum clinic in Brampton so could only join us in the second set. We played the entire “Sitting On The Top Of Time” album and some Yardbirds hits Shapes of Things and For Your Love. Good Crowd and we got a standing ovation after our encore.

Live Radio interview and rehearsal

Jim and I had an interview at 9am at CIUT which is the campus radio station at the University of Toronto. They asked us to come back and do a live recording in April. We went from there directly to our rehearsal at Q music from 10am to 2pm.

Next day- travelling day

Met in the lobby at 6:30 am to catch the shuttle van for our 9:50 am flight back to Toronto. The Chrysler van kept stalling every half mile. The driver continually pulled over to restart the vehicle. Eventually we made it to the airport and made the flight on time.