Pat Do This is a song of emigration; leaving your homeland for work, leaving hard times to find better days. “Here we go, side by side”. Likely, Pat Do This originated in Ireland. This is a version from the Cumberland Plateau region of the Appalachian mountains I learned from my friend Jeff Davis. You can hear this on my album …
I’m excited to release this new video into the world! Recorded on a chilly and extremely windy day on Wolfe Island by Josh Lyon. Alan and Elizabeth Lomax first recorded Bradley Browning, of Arjay, Kentucky singing Fare Thee Well, Green Fields. I learned it from Mike Seeger and play it on an experimental long neck gourd banjo.
“Brown’s newest release ‘Pacem 2: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 1968’ is a magnificent collection of poignant social messages and sonic postcards featuring outstanding musicians including Kate Fenner, David Corley, Sarah McDermott, Suzanne Jarvie, and Tony Scherr.” “Pacem 2 is Brown’s masterpiece… The song structures are so unique and compelling and Brown’s piano playing is so sophisticated and …
“…Some of the finest songs of his extensive discography. (Pacem 1 & 2) sound like the story of Brown’s life, about his personal philosophy (pacem is Latin for peace), about the intersection of his professional and social spheres, about his varied musical and political interests — and about where he’s at right now.” — veteran music journalist and author Michael …
“Keeper of the Flame” by Hugh Christopher Brown Performed by Hugh Christopher Brown with Jason Mercer, Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen, and David Celia Filmed by Sean Michael Turrell/Wolfe Lodge and Carlos Gouveia At the Hotel Wolfe Island, Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada Edited by Lucas Sherwood Follow Hotel Wolfe Island: Website: https://hotelwolfeisland.com
“Everybody Waited For The Funeral” by Michael Harrington Performed by Michael Harrington with Tony Scherr and Hugh Christopher Brown Filmed by Sean Michael Turrell/Wolfe Lodge At the Hotel Wolfe Island, Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada Edited by Lucas Sherwood
The album Oblivion, originally released in 2007 under the name of Chris Brown & the Citizens Band, is now available on all major digital streaming services. In this video, Chris revisits the inspirations and context of the making of this album, recorded in Brooklyn and Wolfe Island, featuring The Citizens’ Band: Teddy Kumpel, Tony Scherr, and Anton Fier, with appearances …
The album Burden of Belief, originally released in 2003, is now available on all major digital streaming services. In this video, Chris revisits the inspirations and context of the making of this album, starting ‘Burden’ on a mono Wallensak reel to reel, and finishing it with long time comrade Lurch at Broadcast Lane in Toronto. Featuring Luther Wright & the …
Music: “Snow” by Kate Fenner and Hugh Christopher Brown. Chris and Kate began playing music together when they were 15 and 16. They still do. Leaving their native Toronto for Brooklyn and New Jersey in the 1990s and 2000s, they entered a period of intense creative growth, touring extensively and releasing several vital, now hard-to-find independent albums. In March 2023, …
Pros and Cons Program founder, Hugh Christopher Brown, describes the work we do. The Pros and Cons Program helps create music in prisons to support healing, rehabilitation, restorative justice, victim support, and education. Participants build better relationships to themselves and others, obtaining practical knowledge and skills across platforms of music, engineering and computer literacy. Funds raised by Pros and Cons provide instruments, …
Shot & edited by my dear Jules Galbraith
Brought to fruition with the wonderful work of these guys!! Directed/DP by Ali Jbara Produced by Slone Mcgowan Edited by Mohammed Atia Supported by Leek Productions https://leekprod.ca/ the Peeps! thank uuu Antonia LaMantia Elan Schwartz Claire Alden Suzanne Jarvie Amelia Blaine May Jarvie James Alden Andrei Mamal Jonny Stern Dedicated to the memory of Mark Fisher
Jukebox County – Put Me Down – off the album ‘Inner Space Outer Space’ (2021)
Produced by Jamstone Productions
Directed by Céline Klein
Watch Hugh Christopher Brown perform “The Yield” live at Hotel Wolfe Island. Written by Kate Fenner Performed by Hugh Christopher Brown Filmed by Sean Michael Turrell/Wolfe Lodge “The Yield” was originally written by Kate Fenner and contains lyrics that detail a departure from Kate’s intense touring life to raise her son and focus on self understanding, apart from distraction and …
Jukebox County – Put Me Down – off the album ‘Inner Space Outer Space’ (2021)
Produced by Jamstone Productions
Directed by Céline Klein
Jukebox County – Put Me Down – off the album ‘Inner Space Outer Space’ (2021)
Produced by Jamstone Productions
Directed by Céline Klein
Now I understand the altar call
I’ve been that close to dying
Now I read the rabbi’s moving lips
On the sickbed where he’s lying
And the refugee adrift at sea
When it seems no god’s replying
Repeat the call, I swear that I’ll
Come forward bent and crying
A video for “Headlines” was recorded live from a recent residency The Gertrudes had the pleasure of playing at the illustrious Grand Theatre in Kingston.
Co-Directed by Kurtis Chen and Jonathan Barton
Directed by Sean Michael Turrell
