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After a year hiatus, I will be performing again at Entertainment Central’s “Dueling Pianos” Cabaret show in 2012. This is a show in which 2 piano players (me being one of them), sing crowd pleasing songs from every era (and genre) of popular music. You get odd song requests (i.e. Kokomo?), and predictable ones (i.e. Piano Man). To keep the audience entranced, it’s encouraged to bring audience members on stage, and let them help sing (and butcher) the song of their choice (sometimes they even dress up in weird costumes..is that a wig that guy is wearing?). 

The Dueling Piano phenomenon is growing in the U.S (Vegas in particular), and is slowly dying here with Canadians.

It’s not everyday I get to play in a organic grocery store/café, but I got exactly that when I did a Christmas show at a Whole Foods Store Cafe at Square 1 Mississauga. It was really surreal experience singing Christmas standards in a country style, and knowing my voice/guitar was heard down the isles, through their deli, meat and fish sections. Still it was a great show and hats off to Whole Foods for giving their shoppers live music, while they rush to finish their shopping.

In mid -2011, a Los Angeles based company called “Talk Radio Unlimited” launched a podcast talk radio website, where podcaster’s could create their own show’s about anything remotely interesting. Needing a Canadian show, I was approached by them to create my own podcast about anything. Thus, I created “Wha Diss”, an experimental late-night talk show that started about being about music, pop-culture, etc, but eventually turned into comedy, drunkin-satire, and random madness.

Inspired by Oprah who (on her OWN network), started being nostalgic about her show which is been off for less than a year, I decided to follow her footprint and upload some episodes of “Wha Diss” for a new generation to discover. At it’s peak I had 500 listeners, across Canada, US, UK, and even Europe (not too shabby!)

Check out  some random episodes in the Podcast section.