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Also in the “Jazz at the FireHall” concert series:
May 27th, 2008: HASJB Young
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Take the 'A' train back in time
February 7, 2007 - The Hamilton Spectator |
"Just another night in Hamilton, Feb. 8, 1954. That would be 53 years ago tomorrow.
It was a Monday. Most people stayed in that evening, listened to the radio, read a book, played Parcheesi. Some watched TV, though not many homes had one yet. CHCH was still a few months from sign-on.
But on Barton East that night, there was entertainment born in another era. Duke Ellington, jazz royalty, played in a hockey rink called The Hamilton Forum. The seats were wood, the acoustics bad, the ambience a challenge."
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Steeltown produces a smouldering-hot jazz singing sensation
February 2, 2006 - NOW Toronto |
"Hamilton – Could the hottest young jazz singing prospect in Canada be a high school French teacher in Hamilton?
Sure, it seems crazy, and having grown up in the Steel City myself just increases my skepticism. But once you hear Diana Panton breathe new life into familiar standards and make Frank Sinatra's closing-time classic In The Wee Small Hours into her own private lullaby, you'll realize, as I have, that there's something very special about this Westdale Secondary School staffer."
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www.dianapanton.com
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If Mozart Played Jazz, He'd be David Braid
September 24, 2005 - The Halifax Chronicle Herald |
"I was driving in a 1988 Crysler K-Car on my way to work a little part
time job I had in high-school. I was 16. It was 1991 which was the 200th
anniversary of Mozart's death, and there were Mozart celebrations
going on all around me. I was oblivious to all of this of course because
I had no affinity to ANY kind of music at that time."
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