5/10/02
*BNL Uncoool?
*Videos
*Govenor General

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BNL’s Gordon has been voted one of the most uncool albums of all time by Rolling Stone. This list compiled by Rolling Stone is a list of bands you SHOULD listen too even though they are very uncool. So it is meant to be a good thing.

From RS.Com –
Barenaked Ladies
Gordon
1992

These clever Canucks are the proudest of the uncool, having stitched their geekiness to their sleeves from their first album on.
Sounds like: "Ooohs" and "aaahs" as they teeter perilously above the precipice of novelty act.
Best song: The recent Lotto anthem, "If I Had $1,000,000," a song about money and buying love, is tops as a post-modern sell out.

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According to KevinHearn.com Driftwood, from Thinbuckles new album, is in rotation on MuchMusic. Also CMT Canada is playing BNL videos so shoot them an email and request them to get them heavier into the rotation. To do so go to: www.cmtcanada.com

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Barenaked Ladies to play Rideau Hall

Free backyard bash at Governor General's on June 16 draws all-star lineup of Canadian musicians

Lynn Saxberg
The Ottawa Citizen


Friday, May 10, 2002

The Rideau Hall concert features (Richard Margison) and Steven Page and the Barenaked Ladies.


The Ottawa Citizen
The Rideau Hall concert features Richard Margison and (Steven Page) and the Barenaked Ladies.


The Barenaked Ladies are coming to play a huge backyard bash next month at Gov. Gen. Adrienne Clarkson's place.

So is country's Canadian man Paul Brandt, balladeer Gordon Lightfoot and Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster.

The National Arts Centre Orchestra will be there. Star tenor Richard Margison is dropping by. Fast-rising soprano Measha Brueggergosman will make an appearance, and sing with Margison for the first time.

Inuk sweetheart Susan Aglu-kark, R and B fox Deborah Cox, concert pianist Jon Kimura Parker and francophone-rocker Roch Voisine are also invading the grounds of Rideau Hall, the Governor General's official residence.

Live From Rideau Hall, as it has been dubbed, is a two-hour concert and television special hosted by the Governor General herself to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the installation of the first Canadian-born governor general, Vincent Massey, in 1952.

Music has always been a part of celebration, she said in a press release announcing the lineup of her party. "It is a universally accessible expression of a culture and something we can all share. This amazing group of Canadian artists and musicians reflects the explosion of Canadian talent in so many musical styles."

Fourteen major Canadian acts will be squeezed into the program, with NACO and conductor Mario Bernardi providing the backing for many of them. Stompin' Tom Connors will perform one or two songs, not with the orchestra, but with his band as part of a non-televised pre-show.

Some 20,000 people are expected to attend the June 16 event, and 1.8 million more will be watching the broadcast on live national television in both official languages.

Brass quintet Canadian Brass, singer Mario Pelchat and his band, Juno-winning jazz ensemble Quartette Francois Bourassa and the chamber orchestra Les violons du Roy are also part of the diverse lineup.

Aglukark, Cox, Parker and MacMaster will perform their selections with the orchestra. For Cox, it's reportedly her first time with any orchestra.

Brandt, however, is bringing his band, and the Ladies will play their own instruments. Lightfoot will give a solo performance. Margison and Brueggergosman will sing a solo with the orchestra, as well as a duet.

It is the most ambitious event ever held on the grounds of Rideau Hall, which began a series of free summer concerts 10 years ago.

The first concert at Rideau Hall, featuring the Rankin Family and Ashley MacIsaac, was organized to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Confederation. The biggest show so far was a performance by fiddler MacMaster last summer that attracted about 12,000 people. This year's series has yet to be finalized.

No wonder. The logistics of the June 16 event are daunting. Just co-ordinating the schedules of touring musicians has been a juggling act, says Rideau Hall media relations officer Lucie Brosseau. Never mind the challenge of getting them on live TV.

We were extremely lucky to get the lineup that we have and it just so happens that it was representative of every genre of music, she says. "But the main focus was to have a national celebration of music."

If they can pull it off, it will be quite the celebration. But because there has never been an event of this size on the grounds of Rideau Hall, organizers are starting from scratch in some ways. In fact, they're still determining the capacity of the site, and how much room to leave for the stage set-up and backstage tents.

Nearby roads will likely be closed that day, and parking and shuttle buses arranged. Organizers are still debating the merits of food concessions, but concertgoers are welcome to bring picnics.

The gates will remain open during two days of on-site rehearsal, as well. Artists performing with the orchestra rehearse June 14, while those playing solo or with their own ensembles rehearse June 15.

Because of time constraints, each act is limited to one or two songs during the show. There is no rain date. Admission is free.

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