Wish I could be there Barbara. Doin' the best I can to try and get some gigs in the great Northwest through Frank at the moment. It's one of the few areas in this little world that I'd love to visit for the first time. Amazingly enough, after thirty years of travelling...Ireland is the other. Don't know how I've managed to miss it!
I know what you mean Reggie. When Borealis records took their name, I don't think they knew there was another record company (also in Toronto!!) with the same name. There are other bummers as well. Canada's David Wilcox, and the USA's David Wilcox have both been playing over twenty years! Must drive them crazy. My friend Greg named his bluegrass band "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" and had all their promo printed up when yours truly sadly imformed him about the "other band" with the same name.
It's even happened (sort of) to me. There is a Manitoba musician named Rick Neufeld, and we've gotten called by each other's name a few times. An MC. on a TV show introduced me as "Rick Neufeld" one time and when I corrected him he said "One of you guys better have a hit record so we won't be confused anymore." Little chance of that, since we both do "folk"!
Rick