Cailin has offered to come out of ‘retirement’, as long as we don’t work TOO hard, so here we are with one show in Halifax and then we’re on VIA Rail From Toronto To Vancouver and back!
We hope to find a house concert or two in BC and in the Toronto-Peterborough area too just to keep things interesting and share a couple of the new songs we will be recording over the coming months.
We haven’t posted a ‘blog post’ for a long time.
We are at home in Dartmouth still.
Cailin still directs her Monday Music Mavens and paints a bit.
Robert is writing a bit, playing a bit and hosting the radio show and live concerts.
Stay tuned!! 🙂
We are so grateful to have received the International Singer-Songwriters Association award for Vocal Duo Of The Year! We hope to be able to be in Atlanta, GA in person next year to meet Tamanie and all the other writers. Meanwhile we will enjoy the crystal sitting next to our Album Of The Year from 2019 for “On Being Human”
Now we await word from the Josie Awards in Nashville as we are nominated in a few award categories with the awards being given out in September.
Thursday April 16th, our 10th anniversary and we’d love you to join us @ 4 PM Atlantic time (-3 GMT)
Check it out on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CampbellAndGreen/live/
or…
Our brand new Christmas CD is almost ready. We would LOVE to send you one as soon as we have a copy.
There are 5 original songs written by us along with a few friendly co-writers plus a few songs you may be familiar with. The songs range from stripped down duo with just an instrument and voice through to the title track ‘Ready-Made Christmas’ with full band treatment.
Use the form below, or contact us directly, and we will make sure you receive it in the mail ASAP along with our heartfelt THANKS for helping us on our musical journey! Big Love… Cailin + Robert
We’re excited & honoured to announce we have WON the Canadian “Wise 50 Over 50 Award” which recognizes a wide range of businesses where the entrepreneurs were all over 50 when started. Starting a new adventure, leaving some of the old activities behind and taking the first step can be daunting. For us it was a gradual realization on what we wanted and needed. Check out the Campbell + Green WISE 50 Over 50 Awards page
Our Christmas CD release is coming November 12th. We have 5 originals songs and the rest are our takes on songs you may know. We have a couple of special guest playing on this one and would love for you to be first to hear it.
We would love for you to contribute to our ‘pre-sell’ campaign of the CD or digital download. Order using this form below….
Order our new CD (or any CD you wish!) right here:
WE’VE WON!
We are very proud to announce that we have won Bronze for Album Of The Year at the International Singer Songwriter Awards in Atlanta, Georgia! Woohoo! Since we could not get down south for the awards, we’ll have the hardware in a week or so.
We are especially proud of the fact that this album – On Being Human – is the first album we recorded almost entirely ourselves, and did much of the producing ourselves under the watchful eye of our amazing producer and friend, Jamie Robinson. It was a labour of love, frustration, tears, hard learning, falling down and getting up again. Jamie was instrumental in keeping us going with his pep talks and belief in us. We are also proud to have cowritten many of the songs with writers we admire – Lucy LeBlanc (Burnaby), Ivan Boudreau (Coquitlam), Kathryn Berry (Montreal), Joanne Stacey (Salmon Arm) and our Nova Scotia pal, Shirley Jackson.
We learned a ton through this process and are using what we learned as we record our Christmas album, currently underway, for release in November. Christmas concerts booking now! Our new album will have five brand new original tunes, a couple you may have heard on our last Christmas tour, plus a few of the old chestnuts Campbell + Green style. Haven’t got a title as of yet. Anyone have any good ideas?
Our last blog told you all about our last tour to Toronto and back on VIA Rail. Since then, through June and July, we have been playing more local, into New Brunswick to St. Stephens and over to Gagetown, up towards Pictou for a house concert, the Halifax Stanfield International Airport, and next weekend will see us in Yarmouth for the Coal Shed Festival.
Future plans include a jaunt up to Toronto again – this time by car to allow us to see a few sights along the way. We are playing a concert at the Roy Bonisteel Old Church Theatre in Trenton. On and a house concert in Peterborough too. Then, Cailin will be flying from Toronto to Vancouver to spend 10 days with her Mom, and Robert will spend those days with his brother in Peterborough. Following that, we plan to spend a few days around Ottawa working on some recording and video with our bud North Easton. Really looking forward to that. We’ll have a show or two on the way home as well.
So, lots on the go, as always. Hope to see you all at a show soon! We’d love to do a house concert for you. Message us for info.
Big love!
Robert + Cailin
Our tour through Ontario and in to Montreal is underway! Our first gigs in Toronto were great and we have one more there before Peterborough, Napannee, Ottawa then Montreal. We still have options for a house concert if you know anyone between Toronto to Montreal!
We also got the great news that we are finalists in the International Singer-Songwriters Association 2019 Awards being held in Atlanta. Thanks to your voting we made the cut in 8 categories!
We find out the judging results on August 3rd! Fingers and toes are crossed!!
We’ve been short-listed with artists from USA and around the world for 8 categories. Now it’s a daily fan voting escapade to see if we make the shorter list that is judged by a panel of industry folks and, of course, we would love your votes. Details below…
Is it Spring yet where you are?
The weather is certainly nicer here these days and, although it wasn’t that tough a winter here, we’re ready for warmer weather and some touring in 2019!
On March 16th we played a house concert at Codapop Studios here in Halifax. Doug Taylor, our host and owner of the home & studio, invited lots of friends and so did we. And we had a great night!
It was made extra special because we had with us Bruce Dixon on bass and Geoff Arsenault on drums AND we recorded the whole thing for video too. It served to remind us how much we enjoy playing with a full band and hope to do some more of it!
Have a peek here on YouTube We will be posting more as we go through the coming weeks so please consider subscribing to our YouTube channel while you are there.
We have shows booked for our spring and fall tours and we’re looking for a few more. Maybe you can help us?
Spring 2019 – May 14th to June 9th we are in Quebec and Ontario. We are doing many shows with www.NorthEaston.ca as well as the duo. We’re looking for more house concerts & listening rooms in the Montreal – Toronto corridor.
Fall 2019 – We are booking a few shows in Ontario/Montreal but spending a few weeks in BC. Playing the Interior, the Islands and the lower mainland
Spring 2019 – Our 4th tour in Europe and shows are starting to book!
So please do let us know if you have suggestions for any of these tours or for the Maritimes the rest of the year. We’d love to hear from you!
We are really looking forward to this night!
Join us plus Geoff Arsenault on drums and Bruce Dixon on bass as we play the night away on our new songs, old songs and a few cover songs. We couldn’t be happier that we have these world class players, and fine gentlemen, joining us as we record the evening for posterity. We really appreciate your support on this one and presell of seats wil put your name on a comfy chair
Codapop house concerts is a great listening venue and we are really looking forward to seeing you!
We’re sure that you have heard Bruce Dixon a lot. He’s a fabulous player and singer and you may not know it but he’s played with: Rita MacNeil, Oakley, Terry Kelly Official, Lennie Gallant, Laura Smith, The Chieftains, Dave Gunning, John Campbelljohn and the list goes on…
Geoff Arsenault? We’ve loved his playing from the first time we heard him. We think he’s the groove master – and like Bruce , a long list of credits. Matt Anderson, Mary Jane Lamond, Matt Mays, David Myles, Rita MacNeil, The Chieftans… and this list goes on too!http://www.GeoffArsenault.com
Please do share this event with your friends in the Halifax region. We really appreciate the support!
And we’re not done yet! We have one more tour across Canada and back by VIA Rail to close out the year. We leave Sunday November 25th for a show in Toronto  then off to BC for a series of shows in the early part of December. Then visiting with friends and family over the holidays before returning.
So we still have some openings for house concerts if you want to host us. It’s easy; just contact us!
In 2019 we have a few months around the Halifax area to write and record new songs before we head out and do it all again. We plan to stay in Canada for 2019 focussing on increasing our reach here, before returning to Europe again in the spring of 2020. Robert is busy booking our next spring, summer and fall. Any help is welcome at booking house concerts, listening rooms and festivals. We plan on going across Canada, so if you know of anywhere that would be a good fit for us, please let us know.
We promised a lot of people, while on our travels, that we would send pictures of our new place when we moved in. Well, here is a picture of the view from our living room. We are almost done our renovations and have moved in. It’s a tiny condo apartment with a bit of a view of Dartmouth, two small bedrooms, a small kitchen and a small living room! We wanted to downsize so we could focus more on music and touring and that’s exactly what we’re doing. It will take a bit of time for us to adjust to the smaller space, but we will manage. We figure since we can live out of one small suitcase each for months at a time while we are on the road, we should do just fine with four whole rooms! And the trade off… no lawn mowing, no snow shovelling, no weeding, no exterior house maintenance. Of course, we pay a small condo fee for someone else to do it, but it’s worth it. It frees up a whole lot of our time so we can focus on the things we love doing. (We will post some more photos on Facebook in the New Year).
Where to start? Last winter we launched our second ever Kickstarter campaign and raised over $5000 to help pay for the recording of our latest album ‘On Being Human’. We recorded the album through March and had a soft release in April. Cailin’s Dad and stepmom visited the last week of April and we were able to finish the album in time to give them a copy. We started our touring May 9th when we boarded VIA Rail for Montreal, where we did a show at the funky Mariposa Le Cafe, and a house concert in Toronto, before boarding a plane bound for Frankfurt, Germany! We spent the next six weeks touring western Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Copenhagen! A fabulous tour, once again. The highlights – seeing Copenhagen for the first time, performing on TV in Friesland, playing in Northern Germany on the coast of the Baltic Sea and on the North Sea, and most especially, seeing old friends and making new ones.
When we returned home, Cailin’s mom came for a visit in July, during which time we flew out to BC for a week of shows, to return in time to pack up and get out! On August 17th, we temporarily moved in to our dear friends’ house in Lower Sackville where we dropped in sheer exhaustion in the grips of one hell of a chest cold, but not before playing the Coal Shed Festival in Yarmouth, a house concert in Dartmouth, and a concert in beautiful Cape Breton. We also played for the first time at the Armdale Yacht Club in Halifax. And now we are packing up and boarding VIA Rail once again for a tour across this great land of ours and spending Christmas with family in BC.
We are just mapping out where our next touring will be and it looks like Spring 2019 will take us to places between Halifax and Toronto; summer will keep us busy in the Maritimes; and Fall 2019 will most likely see us back in the west through BC and Alberta. We may try to squeeze in more of the prairies, too, if we can manage it. We would also like to add in writing sessions this year with fascinating Canadian artists across the country. There is so much amazing talent in the country coming from all walks of life and we’d like to experience that on a deeper level. Who knows what amazing opportunities will come of that? The best part about being a touring musician is meeting so many interesting people! Our lives are so much richer for it, and through our music, we get to share that with you. How perfect is that?
Also in the plans are to write and record a Christmas album for release in November 2019. We already have a few great songs, so we’ll be focussing on writing a few more over the next couple of months, while the season is upon us. And we plan to record the odd single here and there, too, for release at various times of the year. So, lots coming up, lots to keep us busy, lots to keep us motivated in this game we call life. So many people to meet and places to see! And we’d love to take you all with us.
So, on that note, be well everyone. Remember to stop and breathe every now and again and listen to the beauty that’s around you, even amidst all the negativity in our daily news. There is love and kindness out there. We see it everyday. You just have to look.
Robert + Cailin
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It’s been a busy time here in the Campbell + Green world so where to start?
Since last we wrote we’ve toured 6 weeks across Europe, 10 days across eastern Canada and 1 week in BC. We’ve sold a house, almost bought a house, had a visit with Mom, got a nice review from ‘The East Mag’, started recording Christmas songs, played a festival and a concert or two and have more shows coming up, here in Nova Scotia!
If you know friends near the shows, let them know. We are always up for playing house concerts and listening venues, so if you would like to host or have a favourite venue where you like to listen to music, please let us know.
We’re moving! We have sold our house so we can downsize and ‘minimize’ and have a simpler life. It will make touring a little easier too.
The old big house was, well, really big. 3700+ square feet on an acre of land is more work than we wanted and we are okay with letting our 60 seat home venue go, too. Not many folks wanted to drive 15 or 20 minutes out of downtown Dartmouth or Halifax as there was so much more for them to do closer in. We love doing hosting concerts but it’s time to focus on our upcoming projects.
We are currently staying with our lovely artsy friends, John & Brenda, in Lower Sackville, as we search for a mini-home somewhere in the region.
A New Review
The East Mag reviews the local arts scene here in Atlantic Canada – music, theatre, art, food –Â and reviewer Charlotte Simmons gave us these fine words regarding On Being Human: (more…)
