Windsor-Detroit Oral History Music Project: "On The Border

Saturday, April 20, 2013

"On The Border - A Post-War History of Our Music"

A Post-War Oral History of the Bands, Bookies, Agents, Performers, Producers, Club Owners, Fans, Hangers-On, Promoters, Nomads, Burn-Outs, Born-Agains, Techies and assorted Characters who knew the Windsor-Detroit music scene first-hand...

THE BOOK... tentatively titled "ON THE BORDER – A POST-WAR HISTORY OF OUR MUSIC", is in the research stage and with the assistance of publishing house Biblioasis Inc. and the Ontario Arts Council is set for release sometime in the near future. Our goal is to produce a high quality book intended to be part of the region's official history and musical legacy. We are currently compiling interviews and visual materials that will focus on the border city music scene during the years from the early 1950's to the present.

THE AUTHORS are eager to get your input in the form of stories, anecdotes, photographs, concert posters, newspaper clippings, all manner of memorabilia. The book is intended to be a visual history as well as a written one – so please start digging into those memorabilia collections – we'd love to see what you have from days gone.

Al Siegel's Elmwood Hotel & Casino, Windsor, Ontario, Canada –– postcard image circa 1951 –– "AND THE NIGHT SHALL BE FILLED WITH MUSIC... With Dancing to Jack Madden & His Orchestra"

Al Siegel's Elmwood Hotel & Casino, Windsor, Ontario, Canada –– a swizzle stick from circa 1951 –– from the world famous Elmwood Ambassador Room "... where the greatest stars of stage, screen and radio are spotlighted in lavishly staged reviews ..."

THE BOOK AUTHORS…

SCOTTY HUGHES was born smack dab in the middle of the post-war baby boom. His family moved him to Windsor, Ontario at the age of three months, and since then he has become 'one' with the culture and music of the City and region. For over the past 4 decades his days (and nights) have been spent working as a professional musician, artist, graphic designer and photographer. He has illustrated, designed and overseen publication of various internationally released books, environmental manuals and field guides. His published works have included: sean o'huigin's, Scary Poems for Rotten Kids (1988) (selling over a half-million copies world-wide) and Monster's He Mumbled (1989), and Gerry Waldron's widely popular Canadian best seller, Trees of the Carolinian Forest (2003), and Trees of Point Pelee National Park (2007), and many others.

CHRISTIAN BONK is a Windsor, Ontario native who has lived mostly in Eastern Europe and South Korea for the past 15 years. He was active in the border-area music scene in the late 80's through to the late 90's, having gotten his start behind a drum kit at the age of 14 while sitting in at Abars Island View Tavern, and continues to play to the present day. His writing on literature, culture, dwarf-tossing and other esoteric subjects has appeared in publications such as Mandolyna Theodoracopulous's Takimag and (Canadian VICE magazine founder) Gavin McInnes's Street Carnage. He is currently teaching in the Academic Writing Development Program at the University of Windsor.

Saturday, April 20, 2013

"On The Border - A Post-War History of Our Music"

A Post-War Oral History of the Bands, Bookies, Agents, Performers, Producers, Club Owners, Fans, Hangers-On, Promoters, Nomads, Burn-Outs, Born-Agains, Techies and assorted Characters who knew the Windsor-Detroit music scene first-hand...

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