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Shirley Jackson & her Good Rockin' Daddys
Shirley Jackson
Dawn Hatfield
Rob MacIntosh
Dave Harrison
Marc Doucet
Jef Wirchenko
Marks Lockhart
The lengthy story of the Good Rockin’ Daddys began in 1995 with a group of players who wanted to make some fun dancing music. Throughout the years there have been many active members of the Good Rockin’ Daddys; all have contributed vital elements of what makes a ‘Good Rockin’ Daddy’.
Shirley Jackson - Vocals & Tenor Saxophone
Toronto Maple Blues Award recipient - Horn Player of the Year (2003). Shirley has been a featured performer on the blues scene throughout Canada and the United States since 1997. Settling in the Maritimes from Western Canada in 1988, Shirley Jackson has been honing her craft on stage with The Good Rockin’ Daddys as well as The Dutch Mason Blues Band, Joe Murphy & The Waterstreet Blues Band, A.J. & The Redhots, Theresa Malenfant, Frank Mackay & The Lincolns, Glamour Puss Blues Band, The Twisters, and the annual “Ladies in Blue” concert in Halifax.
“Listen to your heartbeat, Listen to your soul and know deep inside that’s where you truly want to go”
Children know at a very young age what it is they want to be and do but are discouraged from being dreamers. “What do you want to be when you grow up”, they ask. But in your knowing heart that you want to be a singer, songwriter, musician and the response is, “That’s nice but what are you going to do to make a living?”
My first music teacher was kicked out of music class because his teacher told him he couldn’t sing. He proved her wrong by learning how to play any instrument that had strings on it; guitar, banjo, mandolin. He gave my two sisters and I guitar lessons when I was nine, and my brother banjo lessons for a gallon of milk a week. In fact he hand crafted our first electric guitars and built my brothers banjo out of a brake drum. Definitely a banjo to sit and play. I have great memories of my father playing his lap steel guitar and harmonica and my mother always encouraged us to sing by entering us in the local talent shows. At the age of ten we had our first family band covering everything from The Tennessee Waltz to The Ventures performing at the local country dances.
On Stage Fright:
I tell the following story to my students when they experience stage fright from performing or being in front of an audience. I remember one show in particular when I was singing that my voice cracked into the microphone and I said, “Oh Shit”, which lead to the audience cracking up. I thought that full auditorium was laughing at me instead of the fact that a 10 year would say “shit” into the mic. I let that particular incident prevent myself from singing again for almost ten years.
Everyone wants to be a Drummer:
Music magazines, childhood visions of being a singer, musician, songwriter practicing in front of that imaginary audience, writing songs and reading music magazines resulted in getting expelled from math class and spending contemplative hours under “the clock” outside the Principal’s office. I had my mind made up I’d be a drummer. I had a drummer friend who gave me lessons and let me practice in his house all day when he went to work which lead me to enrolling as a percussion student at The Red Deer College School of Music.
The Beginning of Folk, Rock & Blues:
I find myself the singer in the ‘Bird Blues Band’ in Alberta covering blues standards to The Doors to Jethro Tull, playing drums in a rock band called “Chain Gang’ covering originals and Bonnie Raitt & Heart tunes, and guitar and percussion in a Folk Blues Band called ‘The Briar Rose Heavy Wood Band’.
The East Coast:
A place and people to fall in love with. Blues venues, great blues musicians and as a drummer playing with Phil Potvin in the Powerhouse Blues Band at The Pub Flamingo. As fate has a way of providing opportunities I ended up enrolling in Dalhousie University to complete my Music of Ed degree under the direction of Don Palmer and master percussionist Jim Faraday. The Good Rockin’ Daddys were formed out of the next few years playing with a variety of great musicians.
Change of Scene; The West Coast:
Teaching in a private school in California seemed like a good ticket to check out the West Coast music scene. San Francisco, California 2001. The Saloon, The Ivy Room, Biscuit & Blues, The Blue Lamp, The Sweetwater, Rancho Nicasio were the places to be and hear some of the best. Junior Watson at The Ivy Room, R.J. Mischo at the Blue Lamp, Little Charlie & The NightCats at The Sweetwater, Terry Hanck at Rancho Nicasio, Johnny Nitro & The Door Slammers at The Saloon. Sitting at the Saloon one day it was very interesting to hear our GRD cd playing in the bar. More opportunities to play with some great musicians such Snooky Flowers, (Janis Joplin’s original horn player) invited to play two years in a row at The Brown Street Bash in Santa Rosa.
Back to the East Coast:
Back in Nova Scotia, after 9/11. There is no place like home. Coming to the realization that life is where you make it happen and it was a good move to be back on the East Coast. With the Release of ‘Careful What You Ask For’ in 2001 The GRD were nominated for a ECMA and came the opportunity to do festival gigs with Dutch Mason, Theresa Malenfant, Rick Jefferys, Joe Murphy, AJ & The Redhots, a summer tour with Glamour Puss to Quebec lead the way for winning The Toronto Maple Blues Award for Horn Player in 2003.
The Lake House:
Inspiration, creative space and music. Some one asks where the songs come from and I heard Ian Tyson once say ‘You reach up and pick one’, that seems to best explanation for the unknown. I’m just happy that some force has chosen to lend me the words to express myself and a group of talented friends/ musicians who believe enough in the songs to contribute and breathe life into them. This is a result of the camaraderie and input of ideas into the songs and the magic that happens when you believe and open yourself to the energies around.
The Maritimes is a great incubator of the blues and some fine talents. Musicians, venues, festival & event organizer’s, arts programs rely on the continued support of the people to offer opportunities to showcase the incredible wealth of talent in the Maritimes. Never to be discouraged from being a dreamer and I do know what I what to be when I grow up.
"What would you do if you knew in an instant your breath could be taken away? Would it change the way you measure success? Would you say all you wanted to say?"
The Good Rockin' Daddys
Dawn Hatfield - Baritone Saxophone
Ms. Hatfield has been performing professionally since 1988. During that time, her baritone sound has been the anchoring voice of many ensembles. She has received both a Juno and an East Coast Music Award as a member of the Johnny Favourite Swing orchestra. Dawn has played in bands supporting such greats as Chris Calloway, Natalie Cole, Lionel Ritchie and The Temptations. She is a member of The SideCats, Shirley Jackson & Her Good Rockin’ Daddies, Frank MacKay and The R & B Allstars, A Love Upstream, BFN, Cocada, The Back Alley Big Band, and the Jubilee Swing Orchestra. Dawn has performed on over a dozen nationally released recordings
Rob MacIntosh - Tenor Saxophone
Rob MacIntosh is an active member of The Good Rockin’ Daddys, The SideCats and The Blown Gasket Orchestra. He has shared stages with Joe Murphy & The Waterstreet Blues Band, the Red Rooster Band, the Mike Ritcey Band and performed on international recordings with Ron Sherman, Tom Lipkin & Colours (Florida, U.S.A.). MacIntosh is a master of the gritty growls and soulful sounds of the Tenor Saxophone.
Dave Harrison - Trumpet & Flugelhorn
Dave Harrison plays trumpet and flugelhorn with Shirley Jackson & Her Good Rockin' Daddys, Cocada & Migration Roots, The Lincolns and the Chebucto Big Band, all based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He has recorded his own music and has helped several musicians with their business and marketing needs. He is previously a member of the Jazz East Board of Directors (Atlantic Jazz Festival), Moments Notice Jazz Quintet, Royce Williamson Big Band and Peterborough Symphony Orchestra.
Marc Doucet - Guitar
Born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Marc Doucet started dedicating himself to his guitar after hearing Eric Clapton's guitar tone on Steppin' Out - a tune by John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers.
Shortly after moving to Halifax, Lazy James Cody, a fine blues harmonica player in his own right, introduced Marc to local blues musicians Carter Chaplin, Garrett Mason and Joe Murphy, who all had a major impact on his playing. Marc counts Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Ronnie Earl, Luther Tucker, Magic Sam, Earl Hooker and the 3 Kings as his main guitar influences..
Jef James Wirchenko - Bass
Jef James began his professional career as a musician, when he was 16 years old, with singer/songwriter Shirley Jackson. As a bassist he has had the opportunity to share the stage with a variety of great musicians in Halifax. Jef James continues to explore the Halifax Music scene as a member of Shirley Jackson & Her Good Rockin' Daddys, The SideCats, Migration Roots and Cocada.
Marks Lockhart - Drums
Before Marks Lockhart met the Good Rockin' Daddys he was playing, recording and touring with the likes of Big Rude Jake, The Immigrants, Anik Gagnon, Johnny Favourite, Big Sugar and Andy Stochansky. Studies included Drummers Collective - NYC, Banff School of Fine Arts and private studies with Kenny Aronoff. He also likes red wine and cooking at home, and makes a great smoked salmon... oh wait, we've said too much!
Official Website: Shirley Jackson & Her Good Rockin' Daddys Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Shirley Jackson
Dawn Hatfield
Rob MacIntosh
Dave Harrison
Marc Doucet
Jef Wirchenko
Marks Lockhart
The lengthy story of the Good Rockin’ Daddys began in 1995 with a group of players who wanted to make some fun dancing music. Throughout the years there have been many active members of the Good Rockin’ Daddys; all have contributed vital elements of what makes a ‘Good Rockin’ Daddy’.
Shirley Jackson - Vocals & Tenor Saxophone
Toronto Maple Blues Award recipient - Horn Player of the Year (2003). Shirley has been a featured performer on the blues scene throughout Canada and the United States since 1997. Settling in the Maritimes from Western Canada in 1988, Shirley Jackson has been honing her craft on stage with The Good Rockin’ Daddys as well as The Dutch Mason Blues Band, Joe Murphy & The Waterstreet Blues Band, A.J. & The Redhots, Theresa Malenfant, Frank Mackay & The Lincolns, Glamour Puss Blues Band, The Twisters, and the annual “Ladies in Blue” concert in Halifax.
“Listen to your heartbeat, Listen to your soul and know deep inside that’s where you truly want to go”
Children know at a very young age what it is they want to be and do but are discouraged from being dreamers. “What do you want to be when you grow up”, they ask. But in your knowing heart that you want to be a singer, songwriter, musician and the response is, “That’s nice but what are you going to do to make a living?”
My first music teacher was kicked out of music class because his teacher told him he couldn’t sing. He proved her wrong by learning how to play any instrument that had strings on it; guitar, banjo, mandolin. He gave my two sisters and I guitar lessons when I was nine, and my brother banjo lessons for a gallon of milk a week. In fact he hand crafted our first electric guitars and built my brothers banjo out of a brake drum. Definitely a banjo to sit and play. I have great memories of my father playing his lap steel guitar and harmonica and my mother always encouraged us to sing by entering us in the local talent shows. At the age of ten we had our first family band covering everything from The Tennessee Waltz to The Ventures performing at the local country dances.
On Stage Fright:
I tell the following story to my students when they experience stage fright from performing or being in front of an audience. I remember one show in particular when I was singing that my voice cracked into the microphone and I said, “Oh Shit”, which lead to the audience cracking up. I thought that full auditorium was laughing at me instead of the fact that a 10 year would say “shit” into the mic. I let that particular incident prevent myself from singing again for almost ten years.
Everyone wants to be a Drummer:
Music magazines, childhood visions of being a singer, musician, songwriter practicing in front of that imaginary audience, writing songs and reading music magazines resulted in getting expelled from math class and spending contemplative hours under “the clock” outside the Principal’s office. I had my mind made up I’d be a drummer. I had a drummer friend who gave me lessons and let me practice in his house all day when he went to work which lead me to enrolling as a percussion student at The Red Deer College School of Music.
The Beginning of Folk, Rock & Blues:
I find myself the singer in the ‘Bird Blues Band’ in Alberta covering blues standards to The Doors to Jethro Tull, playing drums in a rock band called “Chain Gang’ covering originals and Bonnie Raitt & Heart tunes, and guitar and percussion in a Folk Blues Band called ‘The Briar Rose Heavy Wood Band’.
The East Coast:
A place and people to fall in love with. Blues venues, great blues musicians and as a drummer playing with Phil Potvin in the Powerhouse Blues Band at The Pub Flamingo. As fate has a way of providing opportunities I ended up enrolling in Dalhousie University to complete my Music of Ed degree under the direction of Don Palmer and master percussionist Jim Faraday. The Good Rockin’ Daddys were formed out of the next few years playing with a variety of great musicians.
Change of Scene; The West Coast:
Teaching in a private school in California seemed like a good ticket to check out the West Coast music scene. San Francisco, California 2001. The Saloon, The Ivy Room, Biscuit & Blues, The Blue Lamp, The Sweetwater, Rancho Nicasio were the places to be and hear some of the best. Junior Watson at The Ivy Room, R.J. Mischo at the Blue Lamp, Little Charlie & The NightCats at The Sweetwater, Terry Hanck at Rancho Nicasio, Johnny Nitro & The Door Slammers at The Saloon. Sitting at the Saloon one day it was very interesting to hear our GRD cd playing in the bar. More opportunities to play with some great musicians such Snooky Flowers, (Janis Joplin’s original horn player) invited to play two years in a row at The Brown Street Bash in Santa Rosa.
Back to the East Coast:
Back in Nova Scotia, after 9/11. There is no place like home. Coming to the realization that life is where you make it happen and it was a good move to be back on the East Coast. With the Release of ‘Careful What You Ask For’ in 2001 The GRD were nominated for a ECMA and came the opportunity to do festival gigs with Dutch Mason, Theresa Malenfant, Rick Jefferys, Joe Murphy, AJ & The Redhots, a summer tour with Glamour Puss to Quebec lead the way for winning The Toronto Maple Blues Award for Horn Player in 2003.
The Lake House:
Inspiration, creative space and music. Some one asks where the songs come from and I heard Ian Tyson once say ‘You reach up and pick one’, that seems to best explanation for the unknown. I’m just happy that some force has chosen to lend me the words to express myself and a group of talented friends/ musicians who believe enough in the songs to contribute and breathe life into them. This is a result of the camaraderie and input of ideas into the songs and the magic that happens when you believe and open yourself to the energies around.
The Maritimes is a great incubator of the blues and some fine talents. Musicians, venues, festival & event organizer’s, arts programs rely on the continued support of the people to offer opportunities to showcase the incredible wealth of talent in the Maritimes. Never to be discouraged from being a dreamer and I do know what I what to be when I grow up.
"What would you do if you knew in an instant your breath could be taken away? Would it change the way you measure success? Would you say all you wanted to say?"
The Good Rockin' Daddys
Dawn Hatfield - Baritone Saxophone
Ms. Hatfield has been performing professionally since 1988. During that time, her baritone sound has been the anchoring voice of many ensembles. She has received both a Juno and an East Coast Music Award as a member of the Johnny Favourite Swing orchestra. Dawn has played in bands supporting such greats as Chris Calloway, Natalie Cole, Lionel Ritchie and The Temptations. She is a member of The SideCats, Shirley Jackson & Her Good Rockin’ Daddies, Frank MacKay and The R & B Allstars, A Love Upstream, BFN, Cocada, The Back Alley Big Band, and the Jubilee Swing Orchestra. Dawn has performed on over a dozen nationally released recordings
Rob MacIntosh - Tenor Saxophone
Rob MacIntosh is an active member of The Good Rockin’ Daddys, The SideCats and The Blown Gasket Orchestra. He has shared stages with Joe Murphy & The Waterstreet Blues Band, the Red Rooster Band, the Mike Ritcey Band and performed on international recordings with Ron Sherman, Tom Lipkin & Colours (Florida, U.S.A.). MacIntosh is a master of the gritty growls and soulful sounds of the Tenor Saxophone.
Dave Harrison - Trumpet & Flugelhorn
Dave Harrison plays trumpet and flugelhorn with Shirley Jackson & Her Good Rockin' Daddys, Cocada & Migration Roots, The Lincolns and the Chebucto Big Band, all based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He has recorded his own music and has helped several musicians with their business and marketing needs. He is previously a member of the Jazz East Board of Directors (Atlantic Jazz Festival), Moments Notice Jazz Quintet, Royce Williamson Big Band and Peterborough Symphony Orchestra.
Marc Doucet - Guitar
Born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Marc Doucet started dedicating himself to his guitar after hearing Eric Clapton's guitar tone on Steppin' Out - a tune by John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers.
Shortly after moving to Halifax, Lazy James Cody, a fine blues harmonica player in his own right, introduced Marc to local blues musicians Carter Chaplin, Garrett Mason and Joe Murphy, who all had a major impact on his playing. Marc counts Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Ronnie Earl, Luther Tucker, Magic Sam, Earl Hooker and the 3 Kings as his main guitar influences..
Jef James Wirchenko - Bass
Jef James began his professional career as a musician, when he was 16 years old, with singer/songwriter Shirley Jackson. As a bassist he has had the opportunity to share the stage with a variety of great musicians in Halifax. Jef James continues to explore the Halifax Music scene as a member of Shirley Jackson & Her Good Rockin' Daddys, The SideCats, Migration Roots and Cocada.
Marks Lockhart - Drums
Before Marks Lockhart met the Good Rockin' Daddys he was playing, recording and touring with the likes of Big Rude Jake, The Immigrants, Anik Gagnon, Johnny Favourite, Big Sugar and Andy Stochansky. Studies included Drummers Collective - NYC, Banff School of Fine Arts and private studies with Kenny Aronoff. He also likes red wine and cooking at home, and makes a great smoked salmon... oh wait, we've said too much!
Official Website: Shirley Jackson & Her Good Rockin' Daddys Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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