by Sharron McLeod | Music, Songwriting
My friend and colleague singer-songwriter Lesley Young asked me to contribute a guest blog to her website. I was more than happy to do so. I am not sure of just when Lesley started her musical career but she is certainly a part of my beginnings as a performer. Before... 
by Sharron McLeod | Music, Singers
Last week was the birthday of Tony Bennett. Tony Bennett just turned 95, did two sellout shows with Lady Gaga at Radio City Music Hall and announced his retirement from performing after at least 60 years of performing. I did have the privilege of interviewing him in... 
by Sharron McLeod | Music, Promoters, Singers
In the last few weeks I have lost, Canada has lost, Toronto has lost 2 stalwarts of the jazz community, Salomé Bey and Ron Gaskin. Long before I had ever heard of Andy and the Bey Sisters, Toronto knew well the voice of Salomé Bey and her show Indigo. I first saw... 
by Sharron McLeod | Experimental, Music, Singers
100 years ago after the Spanish Flu epidemic, similarly to now, people were confined and isolated for fear of being inflected with a horrible, possibly fatal illness. It also coincided with the end of WW1 and the Jazz Age of the 1920s. It was a time of great of...