OSSINGTON REVELS
June 17 &18
Toronto, ON ~ The Painted Lady
Peirson will be heading South-West to The Painted Lady (218 Ossington)
this Wednesday where he'll be joined by a collective of his favourite artists, including The Bellwood Dwellers, Polyester Heart, Vide Wiberg, Jay Sparrow
and a surprise special guest from the North by South Western Legion of Song. Peirson will be performing at 10pm on Wednesday.
The first 45 fans to attend this Wednesday's show will win free admission to his "after festival hours" performance at 1am this Thursday.
See you at the show!
LOLA SHOW
June 6 - 7pm
Kensington Market, Toronto, ON ~ Lola
with The Gypsy Rebels
BENEATH THE GRATE SHOWCASE
April 24 - 8pm
Stages Theatre - SOLD OUT
Thanks to TicketPromo we've got a full house for Peirson's show at The Stages Theatre this Thursday. To reserve your seats at Peirson's next performance or for more advanced ticket information write Julie Porter at info@peirsonross.com.
MORGAN DOCTOR'S CD RELEASE
March 3 - 8pm
Toronto, ON ~ Dakota Tavern
JUST ANNOUNCED
Secret Show tonight!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 8-11pm
For more Word-of-Mouth and Secret Show details, send an email to contact@peirsonross.com
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Thanks again to all who made it out to the Snow Show last week and for posting live footage of the show. Special thanks to the camper spirits from the Northlands - we look forward to seeing you during our 5th Annual Tour of the North this summer.
Peirson's Seasonal Single Snow on the Ground (piano version) is now available on iTunes. Click here to download.
Thanks to all our fans for your incredible support and overwhelming number of emails. Prior to visiting your town we would like to let you know that All the Things You Never Wanted can be downloaded for free. Click here for your free download. This Single of the Week promotion ends on December 30th.
To view Peirson's rating in iTunes Best of 2008 click here
See you at a show in '09.
THE LOST EP VOTED #1 ROOTS ALBUM ON iTUNES
November 4th was a monumental day for the people of America and global citizens alike. The Lost EP songs and Digital Booklet became available worldwide on iTunes. To download songs directly from www.peirsonross.com, purchase a Dropcard at a live Peirson Ross show near you. Thank you Runaway Music, Apple and our fans for voting for The Lost EP. It is the top album in the Roots genre as well as going up to no. 20 on the overall albums chart. "All the Things You Never Wanted" is the top song in the Roots genre. The Internet seems so democratic!
Thank you to everyone for making Peirson's Rivoli showcase a great one. Our team here in Toronto has been overwhelmed with your comments of support, photos and live HD footage of the show. We will be posting the best of the best on www.peirsonross.com as soon as we can. Stay tuned!
GIBSON GUITARS
We love you Gibson Guitars! Recently, Peirson has been playing a number of his favourite acoustic guitars thanks to Gibson and is like a kid in a toy store as a result of this sponsorship. He says "Thank you, thank you Brad and Tina for these beautiful instruments".
CBC RADIO 2
Also, thanks to CBC Radio 2 for giving us regular rotation on Hour 3 of the Radio 2 morning show.
THE LOST EP - SIDE B AT THE CAMERON HOUSE
Peirson will be performing the "unreleased" tracks from Side B of The Lost EP at The Cameron House, Thursday November 13, 2008 at 6pm.
A few last words from Peirson Ross: "Thanks again to everyone for making Wednesday night at The Rivoli a great show! Looking forward to reaching "equilibrium"."
THE LOST EP RELEASE SHOW
Peirson's performance of new material from The Lost EP can be heard at The Rivoli in Toronto, Canada on Wednesday November 5th.
The first 50 people to arrive before 8pm will be admitted free of charge. Curtains will be drawn and songs will be played at 8pm sharp! This early showcase will be a one hour set of solo acoustic songs from The Lost EP featuring Rich Howse on clarinet, Rebecca Ramone on vocals, Justin Gray on Bass and Andy Peart on drums.
The Lost EP songs will also be released on iTunes Tuesday Nov. 4th and will be available for purchase along with liner notes, lyrics and album artwork. Copies of the PDF digital booklet will also be available at The Rivoli show.
With The Lost EP, Peirson Ross & The Wilderness present an eclectic sound of acoustic pop ballads that fuse folk rock with Peirson's original brand of song.
Thank you again for your blogs, emails and overwhelming notes of support.
BEACH AWARENESS CONCERT
Peirson will be a featured performer at the Beach Awareness Concert on September 7th
along with Jesse Cook, The Skydiggers and Stephan Moccio plus a host of other musical performers. THANK YOU Thanks to everyone at WakeFest! We love Wakefield and look forward to seeing everyone next summer. BLACK SHEEP COUNTRY Peirson will be performing at WakeFest this August at the Black Sheep Inn in Wakefield, Quebec.
He will be playing with his band The Wilderness on August 22nd at 9pm. To purchase advance tickets click
here. He will also be performing at Kaffé 1870 on August 24th as part of the WakeFest finale which will be paying
tribute to the words, music and influence of Billy Bragg. Other special musical guests include Phil Jenkins,
Lee Bowie, Guy Major, Rebecca Ramone, Mike Dubue, Shane Ward, Bruce Cawdron and Brian Sanderson.
Backing them all up will be the Victims Of Geography on bass, guitars, horns and drums. In the spirit of Billy Bragg’s use of music to raise awareness of pressing social justice issues,
this event is a fundraiser for the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture. MORE CAMERON We are happy to report that Peirson’s residency has been extended into the fall. ITUNES FEATURE Peirson’s album "A Boy Caught on Words" was featured on the What We Are Listening To section
with his album also being listed in the Top 10 Albums - Roots.
THE CAMERON Starting this Wednesday July 2nd, Peirson will be
playing a Christopher James Reble Tribute Show at the Cameron House
between 6 and 8pm. The Cameron House (our
favourite front room in Toronto) is open daily at 4pm and is located at
408 Queen Street West just West of Spadina on the North side of Queen. Yes, it's true! Peirson is hard at work in the
studio recording his latest album. Prior to this album's release
(proposed September 16th, 2008), he will be paying tribute to others in
addition to CJReble who have inspired his latest songs during the
summer months. For upcoming shows click here
THIS WEEK’S SHOWS June 12 - 1am SUBMISSIONS ONGOING Don’t forget to enter the simone video competition! There is still time left to submit a video. To enter please click here. A WARM WELCOME Thank you to all who made it out to the Secret Show Series and Sullivan Hall in New York. What a great display of Peirson’s new material for all who attended!
Also Peirson hasn’t granted song requests gracefully in the past, but thanks to the tall man with the white hat Peirson’s version of Suzanne by Leonard Cohen drew awareness of the Canadians in the crowd.
Guess he’ll cover songs that he likes. Thanks for your support. Also thanks to the Brooklyn players from Williamsburg for welcoming us with open arms and joining the stage for the second sets and two encores.
NEW SHOWS ANNOUNCED June 5 - doors open at 8pm PEIRSON IN NEW YORK Thanks to Thomas Selementi at Come True Records and CEG Entertainment, Peirson will be headlining at Sullivan Hall on Saturday, May 10th, 2008 in New York.
Stay tuned for Peirson’s Greenwich Village residency to be announced this fall where he will be playing with The Band. THE CAMERON PUBLIC HOUSE Having returned back from his European dates Peirson is back in Canada working hard in the studio with his new
band on his 3rd record. See Peirson live at the Cameron House every Wednesday starting July 2nd, 2008
from 6-8 pm in our favourite artmusictheatrebar. LES STROUD Peirson is being commissioned by Les Stroud Productions to co-write and perform original film scores
with Don Kerr, Peter Cliche, Jason Mercer and Jamie Golledge live at the Algonquin Theatre.
He will be the featured special guest on July 19th, 2008.
For more information visit www.algonquintheatre.ca IN THE "NIGHT SKY" Peirson’s song Night Sky (A Boy Caught on Words), will be featured in the MGM feature
film College. Wide release in theatres across North America on August 29. JUST ONE "GOOD THING" Hear Peirson’s Good Thing (A Boy Caught on Words) in CTV’s production of Memory and Murder to air this fall.
"SIMONE" IN CFC SHORT Canadian Film Centre features Peirson’s song Simone (A Boy Caught on Words) in the short film directed by Audrey Cummings Burgeon & Fade PEIRSON ROSS MUSIC AND FORSAKEN IMAGES Peirson has been commissioned by award winning photojournalist Lana Slezic to write music for her slide show presentations at Lux Photo Gallery, Amsterdam - A WINDOW INSIDE.
To see their first collaboration visit the screening room. For other images by Lana Slezic, visit her website www.lanaslezic.com or Lux Gallery
for her latest showing. ROAD UPDATE Peirson Ross will perform 6 dates as a part of TON (Tour of the North) this June and July. For TON 2009 bookings contact Andy Zimmerman at canbookings@peirsonross.com.
For upcoming tour dates click here. BLOG ABOUT Us Welcome to an interactive virtual community within the Peirson Ross Collective and beyond. United Stations Productions was founded on May 12, 1975.
For this specialized education, arts and cultural agency, it is not enough to grow world music recording projects in developing countries or
to publish songs by Peirson Ross and the Wallagumba tribe at The Mount Hagen Cultural Festival http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFL0f6knC3Q.
Education, Culture, Social, Environment and Music are the means to a much more arduous goal: to unite all human beings through music and create
"ONE" home station to broadcast these works to the world. CONTEST NEWS!! Video submissions for Simone are still being received. The deadline for submissions is Friday, August 1, 2008. To participate please
send your submissions to Us Productions at uspr@peirsonross.com. To request an application
contact info@peirsonross.com
2008.04.25: Peirson is currently in the studio recording his latest album to be released September 16th, 2008.
C’est What, Toronto, NXNE showcase
June 13 - 10pm
Czehoski, Toronto
The Rivoli, Toronto
with Clara Lofaro
Don’t miss out on the chance to catch Peirson live! Click here to see where he will be playing next.
