Concert 2, from Halifax
Jimmy Rankin is one of Canada's most successful songwriters - as the
main tunesmith for the "The Rankin Family" they went on to win a host
of Juno's, ECMA's, Canadian Country and SOCAN awards.... After the band
broke up in 1999, Jimmy Rankin kept on going and has since released
three solo albums. Jimmy is by nature a story teller, which comes right
out of the heart of his Cape Breton roots. We caught up with Jimmy at
the Cohn theatre in Halifax where he performed a real crowd pleasing
set of basically anything the crowd wanted to hear - and he served it
straight up with just him, his guitar and one other musician on stage -
multi instrumentalist Dave McKeough.
The concert will be on CBC Radio 2's "Canada Live" on Wednesday,
December 19th, at 8pm.
http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/