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Thom to represent Atlantic Canada at the 2013 Annual International Blues Challenge in Memphis

The Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival has announced that Thom Swift will represent Atlantic Canada at the 2013 International Blues Challenge (IBC) in Memphis, Tennessee in January.

Each year, the Harvest Festival picks a deserving local musician to compete in what has become the largest blues competition in the world.

Presented by The Blues Foundation, the IBC is an annual competition that sees more than 180 blues acts from around the world competing for cash, prizes, and industry recognition. It has become the world’s largest gathering of blues acts.

Thom wins 2012 ECMA for The Wood Buffalo Youth Song Project

Thom’s latest album, The Wood Buffalo Youth Song Project has won a 2012 East Coast Music Award in the Children’s Recording of the Year category. The album was created with fellow Maritime musician, Keith Mullins. The project saw Swift and Mullins visit ten schools in ten days in Northern Alberta. Each day, they worked with a small group of students to create a song from scratch, exploring themes of love, family, strength, community and heritage. The student’s voices were recorded, followed by the songwriters’ voices and instruments to create a collection of ten original songs. The album was co-produced by musician, Steven Bowers and was mixed and mastered by Dave Gunning.  

Thom to perform with Symphony Nova Scotia

On Friday, November 25 at 7:30pm, three of Nova Scotia’s most talented male singer-songwriters team up with Symphony Nova Scotia for an acoustic concert of blues, folk and soul.
Thom Swift plays his expressive, earthy roots-blues, Kim Dunn showcases his versatile jazz piano and Dave Gunning sings his sincere, poetic folk songs in this multifaceted orchestral collaboration.

For tickets and more details, visit: http://www.symphonynovascotia.ca/

Thom chosen to represent New Brunswick in CBC Radio 2’s GREAT CANADIAN SONG QUEST

Launched on Sept. 7, 13 musicians – one from each province and territory in Canada – have been selected by CBC to add a new chapter to the Canadian songbook through the creation of 13 new original road songs.

Proudly representing New Brunswick, Thom will write a song featuring an inspiring stretch of road that music fans will vote on. Log on to the Song Quest website to vote.

Once the nominations are in, a short list of the top five roads in each province and territory will be revealed on September 22, and folks can vote for their favourites. On October 1, the final roads will be revealed on the Song Quest website and the musicians will get to work writing new tunes. Those new road songs will be unveiled on CBC Radio 1, 2 and 3 on October 22, and will be available for purchase on iTunes. And on October 26, all 13 artists will come together in a special Song Quest concert at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto.