{"id":1760,"date":"2010-03-08T11:06:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T16:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brocknews\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2010-03-08T16:10:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T21:10:16","slug":"larger-than-life-musician-plays-at-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/03\/larger-than-life-musician-plays-at-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Larger than life&#8221; musician plays at Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1761\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1761\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1761 \" title=\"Matt Andersen\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/mattanderson.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Andersen\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Brunswick musician Matt Andersen plays the Centre for the Arts this week.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A musician billed as \u201clarger than life\u201d will perform at the Sean O\u2019Sullivan Theatre this week.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Andersen of New Brunswick plays a hybrid of blues, roots and rock and roll. His visit to Brock follows on the heels of an acoustic solo\/duo award at the Blues Foundation\u2019s annual International Blues Challenge in Memphis in January.<\/p>\n<p>Andersen will play 25 theatre concerts in Ontario, British Columbia and Saskatchewan this year. For his Brock appearance, he\u2019ll share the stage with Wil, a Calgary guitarist, singer and songwriter.<\/p>\n<p>Andersen plays an average of 200 to 250 tour shows each year. Having opened for the likes of Randy Bachman, Bo Diddley and Little Feat, as well as touring with CBC Radio\u2019s Stuart McLean, he is now a headliner himself.<\/p>\n<p>Andersen has released an introductory EP, two live releases, the full-length release <em>Second Time Around<\/em> and a studio album, <em>Something in Between<\/em>. His most recent release, <em>Piggyback<\/em>, is a series of duo performances with harmonica player Mike Stevens.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets to Andersen\u2019s March 11 show are $39, or $20 for university\/college students and $5 for high school students.<\/p>\n<p>To order:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for the Arts<\/a><br \/>\nBy phone: 905-688-5550 x3257 or toll free at 1-866-617-3257<br \/>\nMonday to Friday, 11 a.m. \u2013 6 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. \u2013 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quick links:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stubbyfingers.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Andersen<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/arts\/music\/story\/2010\/01\/25\/matt-andersen-blues.html\" target=\"_blank\">CBC News \u2014 N.B. bluesman wins international competition<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Andersen of New Brunswick plays a hybrid of blues, roots and rock and roll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}