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Sketches from the sidewalk by Mark Berube
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fave it Folky Pop | Folk Pop
10 tracks | 50 minutes
Released Jan 2004
on Kwalu Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:14 St. Viateur lyrics BUY MP3 04:14 St. Viateur lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:14 St. Viateur
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Ron Sexsmith pours pints of malted beer while Tom Waits and Rufus Wainwright have an arm-wrestling match. Groovy-cabaret-pop
Bio / Background
"Vancouver based Berube is ... a total original in the tradition of exeptional Canadian singer songwriters" - Vancouver Province
At 9 years old, he was among a dancing crowd of 10,000 watching the late South African pop star Brenda Fassie at Somhlolo Soccer Stadium, Swaziland, Africa. With apartheid still strong next door in South Africa, this concert reverberated on many levels: musically, socially, and politically. Mix this life-defining experience with Manitoban-Quebecois roots, a stylistically diverse musical repertoire, the piano, accordian, guitar and a voice that disarms his audiences, and you have the multi-faceted sound of Mark Berube.
"Sketches from the Sidewalk", Mark's ambitious second album, takes one on a rollicking journey of emotions and musical styles. When asked about the concept behind it, he says "I wanted to explore the urban multi-cultural existence of the western world in which I live.
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