PBF Makes 2008 CHMR-FM Blind Lemon Top 20!
Porkbelly Futures latest CD “Porkbelly Futures” was voted one of Canada’s top Blues releases for 2008 on The Blind Lemon Top 20!
Coming in at #9, PBF would like to thank the folks at CHMR-FM for their support and all the blues fans who voted for us.
Quarrington’s New Book “The Ravine” Makes Giller Long List!
The Ravine by Paul Quarrington
This just in! The Ravine has been longlisted for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Quarrington is no stranger to the Giller, having been shortlisted in 2004 for Galveston.
“The selections this year are especially formidable. Many of the other nominees are personal friends,” says Quarrington, “which might cause some difficulty when I begin the hexing incantations and whammies, but hey, I hope they understand. I’m proud to be on such a fine list.”
Is it any wonder that Quarrington won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour? In addition to pulling in the Leacock, his novel King Leary also kept him “on the island,” emerging as sole survivor (read: winner) of the 2008 CBC Canada Reads competition.
Best Folk/Roots Concert of the 2007
Here’s a nice review from the London Free Press Music Editor, James Reaney.
“Porkbelly Futures played The London Music Club to an appreciative audience and were as bloody great as you’d expect a band good enough to have somebody from the Canadian Brass playing guitars and harmonica, the double bassist from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra bowing away and a Governor General’s Award winning novelist supplying most of the lyrics….. When Porkbelly Futures come back, don’t you dare miss them.†…
London Free Press: James Reaney, Music Editor
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King Leary by Paul Quarrington
In all the hoopla about Paul’s King Leary novel, we (OK, Stuart) managed to miss this item on the CBC’s website, in which Paul responds to ten questions about the novel. It’s fascinating reading – and it’s only been online for five months or so…