Roots Poets & Heroes with Guitars: Ray Robertson with Holger Petersen – $15

[gdlr_button href="https://shop.artscommons.ca/single/selectSeating.aspx?p=10939&id=407FBAC8-2602-447E-89FA-2A6F713ABA89" target="_self" size="medium" background="#358CCB" color="#ffffff" border_color="#999999"]Buy Tickets[/gdlr_button] [gdlr_space height="20px"] In conversation with Holger Petersen, Ray Robertson brings his love affair with music to the page and the stage. He offers a fresh take on everything from the cultural history of rock & roll, blues, folk and alt-country to deeply personal explorations of how music making and appreciation become lifelong passions. Sponsored by CKUA. [gdlr_divider type="solid" size="100%" ]

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Lives of the Poets (with Guitars) by Ray Robertson

Picking up where Samuel Johnson left off in a book by a similar name written more than two centuries ago, Ray Robertson's Lives of the Poets (with Guitars) offers up an amplified gathering of thirteen portraits of rock & roll, blues, folk, and alt-country's most inimitable artists. Some of the musicians covered in the book include The Ramones, Little Richard, Hound Dog Taylor and Canada's Willie P. Bennett. Irreverent and riotous, Robertson explores the "greater or lesser heat" with which each musician shaped their genre, while offering absorbing insight into their often tumultuous lives. [gdlr_button href="https://shop.artscommons.ca/single/selectSeating.aspx?p=10939&id=407FBAC8-2602-447E-89FA-2A6F713ABA89" target="_self" size="medium" background="#358CCB" color="#ffffff" border_color="#999999"]Buy Tickets[/gdlr_button]