Grant Tilly: Home

Buddy Holly in Sudbury has finished, and I've put Ritchie Valens away for now, though who knows the next time I'll be swayin' with my guitar, playin' La Bamba? But for now, I am back in Toronto and knee deep in preparations for the Fringe. A fantastic cast of actor/musicians has been assembled and we're in the process of bringing "The Christian Republican Fundraiser in Dayton Tennessee" to life! Speaking of which, we're having a fundraiser to help with the process of bringing this show about. Friday June 6th at the Cameron house, cast members Jason Chesworth, Jason O'Brien, Jackie English, and Kate Unrau will be joined by other musicians for an amazing night of music from 7-9 pm. I'll also play a few tunes... Including a song about pancakes.
And if you have a chance, check out the website for the show--www.christianrepublicanfundraiser.com, it has all the dates and details for the show. Hope to see you there.

We closed the "Wrecked!" tour on a high note in Ottawa and after a quick stop home in Toronto I'm up here in Sudbury for "Buddy, the Buddy Holly Story!" at the Sudbury Theatre Centre. It's so nice to be in one place for the next 6 weeks, with such a great theatre... after a busy tour it feels like a bit of a holiday.
There are quite a few exciting things coming up:
My Musical, "The Christian Republican Fundraiser in Dayton Tennessee" will be at the Cameron House for the Toronto Fringe (July 2 --13th). More on that later...
Afterwards, it's off to Kingston to perform in the Musical "Anne and Gilbert" in August, looking forward to that as I'm a bit of a Nancy White fan, who wrote music for the show.
The show will have a three week break in September before resuming with an Ontario tour... so...
Well, we've been having such a great time with our "3 guys from the Prairies" show, we're taking it on the road. Jeff Straker, David Hein and I (all ex-pats of prairie provinces) will be spending September 1st to 22nd touring Ontario. Hope to see you at one of those shows!

The U.S was amazing. The other day we counted something like 28 states that we drove through, and we had the chance to perform everywhere from Tacoma WA, to Concord NH, down to Durham NC, not to mention pulling out the guitar for a few songs at Brother's coffee in Gillette Wyoming. Once I have a chance I'll upload a few pics of some of the beautiful historic theatres we had a chance to play.
Now we're back in Toronto, and there's a few gigs coming up: Concord Cafe on March 3rd with Trevor Campbell, Alison Jutzi and Friends, and then a reprise of our standing room only gig "Three Guys from the Prairies" with fellow ex-pats David Hein and Jeff Straker-- this one is catered with "Prairie themed food", you may have to come to find out what exactly that is...
And afterwards we finish off the tour-- a few weeks around Ontario, and then a final week in Ottawa. And after that... a workshop and a bit of Buddy Holly, more on that later.