VIA RAIL ARTIST ON BOARD
Vancouver – Toronto: June 7 to June 11 &
Toronto – Vancouver: June 14 to June 18, 2016
BOB MENZIESVancouver Island based Folksinger and Songwriter Bob Menzies joins
VIA Rail‘s ARTIST ON BOARD program which seeks to connect musicians with the Canadian Landscape.
Passengers on “THE CANADIAN” ride the rails watching themagnificent landscape pass by while
listening to wonderful Canadian live music
On Board Performances
Each day of travel features three acoustic performances in different rail
cars of original music from Bob’s four studio albums and covers of songs by great Canadian singers and songwriters.
Station Performances
On the June 7 Vancouver – Toronto journey there will also be Station Performances in
Vancouver’s Pacific Station and the Jasper Heritage Railway Station.
On the June 14 return trip, there will be StationPerformances on the Toronto – Vancouver train in the historic Winnipeg
Union Station and again in the Jasper Heritage Railway Station
Monday, January 29, 2015
Meighan Retirement Residence, Davisville, Toronto
One hour concert Birthday Party for the 3rd & 4th floors
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Meighan Retirement Residence
One hour New Year's Day Celebration
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Midi Melodies, 605 Middlefield Road, Scarborough
Interview for TV show MUSICALLY YOURS with Deirdre Mallehe. Video for ONE MORE HIGHWAY was featured and we discussed the new Nashville album "CITIZENS OF NASHVILLE"
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Meighan Retirement Residence, Davisville, Toronto, Ontario
One hour performance for group Birthday celebrations - 2 floors
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Woodgreen Seniors Centre, Riverdale, Toronto, Ontario
1:00 pm Performing for the seniors
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Woodgreen Community Services, Riverdale, Toronto
Seniors Centre Performance, Broadview & Danforth
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Woodgreen Community Services, Riverdale, Toronto
Seniors Centre Performance, Broadview & Danforth
Sunday, October 3, 2014
The Smiling Buddha, Toronto
http://www.thesmilingbuddha.ca
3 sets - 4 hours, for 20% of the gate
Saturday, October 4, 2015
Blackout Festival, The Junction, Toronto
Evening Performance at this first annual festival
http://junctioncommons.ca
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Woodgreen Community Services, Riverdale, Toronto
Seniors Centre Performance, Broadview & Danforth
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Nashville Skype session with A & R rep from BMG Chrysallis
They liked one song, The Only Thing I Fear and took it away for consideration. Declined it a few weeks later
Wednesday, September 17, 2015
Nashville Skype session
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Woodgreen Community Services, Riverdale, Toronto
Seniors Centre Performance, Broadview & Danforth
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Woodgreen Community Services, Riverdale, Toronto
Seniors Centre Performance, Broadview & Danforth
Saturday, June 29, 2014
Video Launch Party - June 28 - 5pm - 8pm
Rob Ross on bass, Bruce Thomson on drums
Friday, June 20, 2014
Ride For Life, The Beaches, Toronto
Playing at The Ride For Life- 5-6 pm, charity for Cancer, played the Cancer Survivors' Tent
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Woodgreen Community Services, Riverdale, Toronto
Seniors Centre Performance, Broadview & Danforth
Tuesday, June 10, 2-14
Old Nick's at Broadview & Danforth
Tuesday night jam - invited by Christan
Tuesday May 13, 2014
The Central, Bloor/Bathurst
Video shoot for the ONE MORE HIGHWAY Official Video
Co-produced by Robyn Menzies, Duraid Munijim and Bob Menzies
Written by Bob Menzies
Featuring the actors: Nicole Cere and Kristiaan Hansen
Shooting of the Official Video for ONE MORE HIGHWAY
Solo Performance - played 8 or 9 songs - great crowd. Couple of audience people played egg shakers. Met a number of people after the show, My main man Taylor Rawlings packed the gear so I could talk to folks after the show, make a bit of a connection. Love this place The Central. Also connected with the owner Lucan Wai to talk about an Album Release Party. Line-up included: 9:30pm Evan Pang 10:15pm Adam Jesin 11pm Ashlea Jonesmith 11:45pm Bob Menzies
Saturday, December 14 - Private Function
Sunday, December 8 - Private Function
Saturday, December 7 - ONE MORE HIGHWAY - Album Release Party at The Central
Thursday, November 21 - Private Function
Tuesday, November 12 - The Rockpile East
Sunday, October 20 - Internet radio interview 5:00 pm on "Musically Yours - Deirdre Mallehe" onTheHazeFM
Very exciting to be a part of The Kensington Market Festival. We took the stage 2nd with Band Nine as a backing band: Paul Conlon on Bass, Tony Borges on stratocaster and Mark on drums. The band was coming from Brampton and it was somewhat chaotic getting everyone on stage at the same time. Not many people outside of the loyal core group but a good performance all around. A good video performance clip came out of it and the band started to work the songs for the future. Artist line-up included 5:30 – 6:00 Glen Hornblast http://www.glenhornblast.com/ 6:20 – 7:00 Bob Menzies http://www.bobmenziesmusic.com/home.cfm 7:20 – 8:00 Craig Robertson http://www.craigrobertson.ca/ 8:20 - 9:00 The Lad Classic http://theladclassic.com/ Doors Open 5:00 PM
Performed solo for this festival. Originally scheduled to be on with Bass player Rob Ross but had to cancel the bass at the last minute due to a noise restriction (a comedy show going on downstairs). Good show - went through the set list competently without missing missing much. A big noisy crowd who were not really there for the show - more of a sports/pick-up bar but still the biggest crowd I played before up to now. The line-up for the show included: 9:00 - 9:45 Signe Miranda 10:00 - 10:45 Bob Menzies 11:00 - 11:45 Social Potion 12:00 - 12:45 Groovy Brothers 1:00 - 1:45 The Bloody Five