TONIGHT - Friday, Aug 29th - SALA Rossa, Montreal, Qc - opening for Broadcast Radio CD Release Party.

Doors at 8pm, we're on at 9pm, Broadcast on at 10pm. Should be goodly goodly......M!

Off to Ottawa this afternoon, Aug 18th, for a show at the Mercury Lounge with Ritallin opening, dynamic and powerful Ottawa poet. Show starts around 8pm.

Tomorrow night, Aug 19th, we'll be in Toronto at Cervejaria as part of the Fundraiser for the Toronto Slam team. Show starts at 8pm.

Copies of the new album What the Boat Gave the River will be available, along with What the River Gave the Boat (recently nominated for a Western Canada Music Award).

On Thursday, Aug 21rst, back in Montreal, we'll be playing at the Main Madness (POP Montreal street market at the corner of Rachel and St Laurent) in the early evening around 6pm. Later that night we'll be playing at L'inspecteur Epingle with James Finnerty opening. Start time around 9pm. Hopefully see you soon.....m.

Western Canada Music Award Nomination!

What the River Gave the Boat has been Nominated for a WCMA in the Outstanding Roots Solo Category. Exciting! A big thank you to Matthew Rogers who helped me produce the album. He is the man that can bridge the formal music worlds with the Roots world amazingly. Also a big Thank You to all the players who played on the album.

I`m currently riding a bike I bought for $95 around the peninsula of Gaspe. My butt cheeks are sore, but les paysages sont tellement beau. And we`re having free showers every 30 minutes.....m!

Yebito...Thanks to all the people who came out to the shows last weekend. Waterloo, Toronto (Drake Hotel) and Ottawa (Mercury) Lounge. I think it was one of the most diverse short tours crowd-wise we've ever done. Bought good coffee at Ideal in Kensington Market...the best. Read the globe and mail at Maggie's breakfast place on College. All our favourite things to do. And of course the Market in Ottawa on Saturday nights is always an eye-full....all the government workers letting all the corporate/government anxiety out into displays of skin and hedonism.

The website will be updated soon with new pics, new tracks from What the Boat Gave the River...etc. I'm a bit of a lemur when it comes to computers. Sad but true.

An August tour is starting to come together. Some of the dates are posted on myspace

www.myspace.com/markberubemusic

tutto bene yebito.....m

Hello everybody,

This is just a little quick note early in the morning from Sault Ste Marie, ON. Just finished a weekend playing the Winnipeg Folk Festival. Geoff Berner is a hero and Balkan Beat Box simply rock. Check these acts out if you have a chance.


The band and I, The Patriotic Few, will be playing the following shows this week in Ontario if you're interested in coming down:

Montreal, Quebec - Wed, July 16th -L'inspecteur Epingle with David Simard. 9pm
Waterloo, Ontario - Thurs, July 17th - Maxwell's Music House, with Lesley Pike and Katie Rox opening. 9pm.
Toronto, Ontario - Fri, July 18th - The Drake Hotel, featuring at the Toronto Slam. 8pm start. On around 9pm.
Ottawa, Ontario - Sat, July 19th - The Mercury Lounge, with The Butternuts. 7pm - 10pm early show.

The new album What the Boat Gave the River is now done and will be released in Canada September 16th, 2008. Very excited about this album...M

PS - the new single "Looking for Another" is now on the myspace page.

Hello everybody,

This is just a little quick note early in the morning from Sault Ste Marie, ON. Just finished a weekend playing the Winnipeg Folk Festival. Geoff Berner is a hero and Balkan Beat Box simply rock. Check these acts out if you have a chance.


The band and I, The Patriotic Few, will be playing the following shows this week in Ontario if you're interested in coming down:

Waterloo, Ontario - Maxwell's Music House, with Lesley Pike and Katie Rox opening. 9pm.
Toronto, Ontario - The Drake Hotel, featuring at the Toronto Slam. 8pm start. On around 9pm.
Ottawa, Ontario - The Mercury Lounge, with The Butternuts. 7pm - 10pm early show.

The new album What the Boat Gave the River is now done and will be released in Canada September 16th, 2008. Very excited about this album...M

PS - the new single "Looking for Another" is now on the myspace page.

I haven't been very studious lately with the updates. It's been busy, but now What the Boat Gave the River is done. It feels honestly great. Almost like a long marriage/divorce kind of relationship. Was great, but definitely now feel good that this idea that's lasted about 3 years is completed and done. Now we can start moving on to new material, of course after we tour this album for the next 2 years :):):):):):)

The Release Date for Canada is September 16th, 2008. It will be released by the Redux/KBM label here in Montreal, and Ken Beattie of Killbeat Music will be handling all the publicity for English Canada. Like to thank these two for what should hopefully be a fun ride.

I've just updated the myspace page (www.myspace.com/markberubemusic) with pictures of The Patriotic Few and uploaded a bunch of songs from What the River Gave the Boat, before I upload the new one shortly.

There will be a free download as well on this site and the myspace page soon.

Upcoming shows:

This Thursday, July 3rd - solo show 8pm at Pages Bookstore, Montreal (Close to Metro Lionel-Groulx)

Other shows around Ontario and Quebec in July and August. Check out the myspace page for shows.

A tout bientot.....M

Currently Mastering What the Boat Gave the River. It's 1:21 am. Leaving Montreal to drive to Manitoba in 5 and a half hours. Should be fun. The songs. a bientot...M