Shane Simpson website

photo credits:
Martin Woodhead
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UPCOMING SHOWS:
Saturday April 26 - O'Reilly's Pub, Perth, ON percussion for Sue Foley & Peter Karp
Saturday May 10 - The Bayou w / James Cohen Caravan
Sunday July 6 - Ottawa Bluesfest Rideau Centre Acoustic Series 12pm

Shane playing percussion with Sue Foley
February 2008 @ La Basoche, Gatineau, Quebec
photo credit: Chris Butler

Shane with Sue Foley and Peter Karp
Perth April 26 2008

News:
Shane plays percussion on David Francey's 2008 JUNO award winning album 'Right Of Passage.'

Shane can be heard on the new James Cohen CD "Hi-Phi." Shane can also be heard on the new James Cohen live CD Live Fire recorded at the NAC.

Shane can be heard on David Francey's new live CD "The First Set". The CD was recorded live in Ohio and is getting rave reviews!

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Visit the product page to check out available CDs.

Cool Tune:
Click to download the tune Shane wrote for his nephew: Rowan's Song mp3 (3.4MB).

Wild Rice Interview:
Want to hear an interview with Shane and Paul that took place during the first Canadian Guitar Festival? The interview aired on CJTR Regina on the program Six Strings and a Million Possibilities with host Bob Evans. Click here and scroll down to show #167 (January 9, 2005) to hear the interview.

Wild Rice Review in Acoustic Guitar Magazine:
Wild Rice was reviewed in the November edition of Acoustic Guitar Magazine! Here's what reviewer Celine Keating had to say:

On their first CD together, Ottawa, Canada–based guitarists Paul Bourdeau and Shane Simpson perform complex instrumentals that span jazz and bluegrass and, as on the luminous “Where the Water Meets the Sand,” venture into impressionistic terrain. Despite hailing from different musical backgrounds—Bourdeau is known as a jazz-fusion stylist, the jazz-trained Simpson has recorded as an acoustic folk-rock singer-songwriter—their sound has the fluidity and integrity of a single organism. The title track is a tribute to Tony Rice, and on that and their other original compositions, especially “More Acoustic” and “The Beiseker Road,” the duo’s playing is as crisp and tight as that of the master flatpicker himself. - Celine Keating, November 2004

an acoustic romp in the jazzgrass
"Wild Rice"is now available. The instrumental CD is part of an instrumental duet Shane takes part in his "leisure time." The CD contains original acoustic duet pieces written and performed by Shane and fellow Ottawa guitarist Paul Bourdeau.

what some people are saying:
"What a FANTASTIC ALBUM!!!!! ... Pickin' like this comes along but once in a great while for folks who are deeply immersed in the new acoustic realm!" - Truman Ingalsbe - host Meanderings, WDIY MORE...

Visit the Wild Rice page for more details, to access the Paul Bourdeau & Shane Simpson EPK (electronic presskit) or to listen to samples from Wild Rice.

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