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18 March 2006

Greetings:

We've passed the Ides of March and hopefully (depending on your
hemispheric view) you are looking forward to a change to Spring or
Fall. In my half of the world it's Spring, and I'm ready, bring it on!

In an e-exchange with Bernie Finkelstein, Bruce's career-long manager
and president of True North Records, I received some news about
Bruce's projects and other goings-on to pass along to our readership.
As you may already know, Bruce has been back in the studio recording
a new CD now titled Life Short Call Now, which will have a release
date of July 11, 2006 in North America. Bernie said, "It's got lots
of wonderful things on it, including the use of a 23-piece string
section that is just wonderful." Principle players in the band are
Dave Piltch on bass who's well-known for his work with kd lang, Gary
Craig on drums/percussion who's worked with Bruce before and Julie
Wolf on keyboards who's recorded/toured with Bruce but also, very
notably with Ani di Franco. Kevin Turcott plays the horns on several
cuts and there's even a brass band on one cut! The CD will include
two or three instrumentals. Produced by Jonathan Goldsmith, some of
the songs are Beautiful Creatures, Mystery, Peace March, Different
When it Comes To You and Slow Down Fast, some of which Bruce had
previewed during his last legs of his 2005 tour. Bernie noted, "Great,
great record and very fresh."

Touring dates will be announced soon, a few in late June, some in July
but the bulk of the tour will begin in August and continue through to
the end of November. The tour will resume again in the new year
(egads, 2007!) The earlier dates will be solo, but beginning in
August and through November Bruce will be touring with a band. I
passed along the requests I get from readers for tourdates in the UK,
Australia and the southern US and Bernie said the 'chances are good'
for dates in Europe and Australia in the early new year.

Jimmy Buffet has recorded Wondering Where the Lions Are for the theme
of a new movie call Hoot, based on the book Hoot. Some of you may
remember that Jimmy also recorded Anything Anytime Anywhere and
Someone I Used to Love, on his CD License To Chill, which hit the
charts at #1 in 2004. He also recorded The Charity of Night, which
got significant air-play and brought more fans over to find out more
about Bruce and his work. The movie is due to be released April 21,
2006 and Bernie said, "Jimmy does a great job on Lions".

Bruce will be receiving a special Humanitarian award during this
year's JUNO Award weekend to be held in Halifax on March 31-April 2,
2006. Bruce's award will be presented at a ceremony on March 31st.
This is the first Humanitarian award ever presented by the JUNOs and
Bruce will be present at the ceremony. Bruce has been nominated 29
times for a JUNO and has won nine times.

Bruce is also featured on one of the DVDs up for the Music DVD of the
Year at the awards as:

LIVE 8 - Toronto - Michael Watt, Rob Brooks - Various Artists EMI

Rob Brooks
The vice-president of marketing at EMI Music Canada, Brooks has worked
with an amazing assortment of Canadian acts from The Tea Party and
Shaye to Anne Murray and Tom Cochrane.

Various Artists
The single disc features highlights from the worldwide concert to help
"make poverty history." The Toronto portion of Live 8 featured
Canadian artists Tom Cochrane, Bryan Adams, Bruce Cockburn, Randy
Bachman and The Carpet Frogs, Sam Roberts, Simple Plan, Blue Rodeo,
Our Lady Peace, The Tragically Hip, Barenaked Ladies and Neil Young.

You can read more about the JUNOs, this year's nominees and Bruce's
accomplishments at:
http://www.junoawards.ca/.

That's it for this issue of The Cockburn News. Remember to keep
checking in at: http://www.cockburnproject.net for updates on
tourdates and other news. Keep those questions coming, that's what
keeps us on our collective toes. Remember that The Cockburn Project
is a collective endeavor, so if you come across articles, interviews,
have concert comments you've transcribed, setlists, or other archival
information, send it our way. Our goal has always been to be the
gathering ground for all sorts of Bruce Cockburn-related information.

Peace,
Suzanne Myers
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