LOCAL CONCERT ALERT (The Soo's Got Talent), Plus New Videos!!

Hey everyone, I apologize for this post being later than you may expect, but this weekend is very quiet for hard rock concerts, and I was giving more time for short notice announcements. Well, we found one, and it's a big one, so before we touch on some long-delayed videos, let's kick off this post with some LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS, starting with one on SHORT NOTICE!

Local hard rock solo musician Tym Morrison will play TONIGHT at The W.W. Baldwin Auditorium at The Tech as part of the second round of The Soo's Got Talent! Profuse apologies for the short notice, we only heard about this event via Tym's personal Facebook page yesterday, and while the talent contest's Facebook page announced TONIGHT'S performers on October 1st, this event completely flew under our radar, as only Tym is an already known hard rock artist of the remaining competitors. This is not a battle of the bands, but musicians make up most of the performer lineup, and TONIGHT'S 15 acts were determined via a 28 act opening round on September 28th (Tym was there, apologies again), by way of private auditions at The Tech held weekly from August 24th through September 21st. A $450 cash prize awaits the winner, while gift cards and certificates from local merchants will also be up for grabs, so who all will you find TONIGHT?

Luckily, we can see all 15 second round competitors via the night #1 video embedded below, as uploaded to The Soo's Got Talent's Facebook page, and keep in mind that this event was definitely promoted towards karaoke singers, so that may explain why some names aren't as well known. In loose alphabetical order, the performers TONIGHT are as follows, with song covered in the video in brackets where available: John Anderson (Steve Perry's "I Stand Alone"), beatboxer Allen "Gingerbeats" Aikens, Daniella Brewer (Sam Smith's "Lay Me Down"), rapper Tristan "Bold Noize" Goslow, juggler Kyle Hicks, Hope Connor (The Beatles' "Yesterday"), Jade Jack (Auliʻi Cravalho's "How Far I'll Go"), newer acoustic rock quartet The Primarinas (Gord Downie's "Seven Matches"), local blues musician Leon "Li'l Eagle" Kyle, Michaela Lynn (Meghan Trainor's "Me Too"), Tym Morrison (his new original "Say That You Care"), Chris Mozarowski (Bette Midler's "The Rose"), Bethany Pelletier (Rachel Platten's "Fight Song"), ...

...Madi Schomogyi (Sia's "Death By Chocolate"), and magician Darren Emond. Note that country singer Lorrie Lynn Bolduc was reportedly in the original top 15, but had to drop out due to work conflicts. There's definitely a lot of diverse local talent here, but only five acts will be advanced to next week's competition, so come out TONIGHT to see who makes the cut! This event (a Canadian Cancer Society fundraiser) is co-organized by ex-Coverfly frontman Mario Naccarato and local theatre director Barbara Rajnovich, with Mario serving as judge alongside Rae-Ann Brunette, Darren Robertson and Leslie Walsh Tibben. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for children 7 and up plus students, and FREE for kids 6 and under, while everything begins at 6:00 PM. I apologize again for this only making the site now, but I will go through videos from the auditions and first round to see if we missed any videos of Tym or an eliminated hard rock performance, and hopefully TONIGHT'S second round action is a big hit going into next week's semifinal!

We'll let you guys know when we hear the results, but best of luck to all of TONIGHT'S 15 acts at The Tech, stay tuned for more updates, and visit the official Facebook event page and this SooToday article for complete details on The Soo's Got Talent! Here's all 15 of the round 2 performers, and if you want to skip to Tym's performance, he's on at 28:45! (He is not playing elsewhere as a solo artist this weekend, but he is filling in with The Dorian Gray Band again at Reggie's West.)



We'll close this post with videos from Saturday night's Pirie "Bear" Kaufman benefit concert at The Sault Theatre Workshop, as headlining power rock quintet Re:Born shared eight videos from the event to their Facebook page on Sunday! Three are of other performers, including most of prog rockers Machines Dream playing their song "The Cannons Cry", folk artist M.D. Dunn playing his song "Master of Doubt", and ex-Blackberries frontman Norm Rosteck and friends playing an unidentified song (possibly an original named "Gonna Drive Me"?) Unfortunately, no videos were uploaded of Tym Morrison or The Cheesemakers' sets, but we do have 5 of Re:Born in action! They were filmed covering Kissin' Dynamite's "Sex Is War" and Edguy's "Lavatory Love Machine" (with Elly McWatters returning as guest singer), plus the Project 421 holdovers "Into The Darkness" & "Running Away", but embedded below is seemingly a new original named "Die Another Day"!

Not to be confused with the Madonna song or it's namesake James Bond movie, this sounds pretty solid, as do the other videos from Saturday night, but the audio can have it's muffled moments. Cory (I assume) got good angles of the bands in action, and hopefully this show was a huge hit for the Kaufman family as Pirie continues his cancer battle. Our best goes out to him, of course, and give Re:Born and company's videos a look!



That's all for today, but stay tuned for some more news and concerts tomorrow! Thanks everyone!