LATEST NEWS:
September 3, 2010
ON TOUR WITH STOMPIN'
TOM: BEAUTIFUL BRITISH COLUMBIA
Hello friends,
Here we are again with another installment of ‘
Letters
From The Road’ on the Stompin' Tom Western
Canadian summer tour 2010. I woke up this morning (it
was actually around noon) after having stayed up until
6:30 AM sharing stories and a few bottles of beer with
Tom. The bright sunlight shining through the blinds
finally woke me up, and after finding some clothes I
headed for a nearby restaurant to find something to
eat. I passed by the open door of Tom's motel room and
found him eating cold wieners from a can with a fork
in one hand and a bottle of beer in the other. He was
in a good mood and in good health, greeting me with
a hearty "Mornin' Tim! Just having my breakfast..."
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August 23, 2010
On Tour With Stompin' Tom:
Croquet in Saskatchewan
Hi everybody!
Here's another letter from the road as we make our way
across the prairies and ever closer to the Pacific Ocean.
With the hot summer sun blazing overhead we pulled into
Regina. We performed our concert in the showroom at
Casino Regina. The format of the show was different
than usual. Instead of our usual two sets we performed
only one longer set. Billy MacInnis started the show
with a couple of fiddle tunes and then I sang three
songs before bringing Tom out for an extended 75 minute
set.
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August 18, 2010
On Tour With Stompin’
Tom: Westbound Out Of Winnipeg
Hello everybody,
We're rollin' west on the Trans-Canada highway and across
the great plains of North America. There is no place
in the world like the Canadian prairies. Although I
have crossed the prairies many times I don't believe
that I have ever seen them as green as they seem to
be this August. Usually by this time of year the grasslands
and fields are starting to look quite brown but it must
be a banner year for rain around these parts.
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August 12, 2010
On Tour With Stompin'
Tom: Letters From the Road
Hello friends,
This is Tim Hus writing to you from Dryden, Ontario.
Tonight we will be performing our second concert of
the Stompin' Tom tour at the Dryden Cultural Centre.
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August 11, 2010
Hello everybody,
I hope that you are having a good summer whereever you
are and that you are taking in plenty of live music
at the various festivals, fairs, and rodeos throughout
this great land!
I am on the road touring with legendary Canadian country
singer and songwriter Stompin' Tom Connors. This is
my second tour opening the concerts and backing up the
Canadian icon. Last year we were on the road from Ontario
to Newfoundland. The shows went so well that we are
touring western Canada this summer from Thunder Bay
to Vancouver and Fort MacMurray.
I have been writing a personal account of our tour for
CANADIAN
INTERVIEWS under the heading
CHRONICLE:
LETTERS FROM THE ROAD
Please click on the above links to read about our travels.
Thanks to everyone who has come out to take in a concert.
Enjoy the summer!
July 7, 2010
Do you have your hat pulled low and your six guns tied
on and are you ready for the Calgary Stampede? We look
forward to seeing you at one of our many Stampede shows
over the next ten days!
Thanks to all of the good folks who made it out to our
CD Release concerts around the province over the last
couple of weeks. The Calgary album release was a sold
out affair and our Edmonton release at the Uptown Folk
Club boasted an attendance record for the venue. We
are honoured to have such support for our brand of Canadiana
country music.
The initial response to our latest album
Hockeytown
has been overwhelmingly positive:
The album is
#2 on the mighty CKUA
radio across the province of Alberta and
#5
on Campus Radio Report across the country and
#13
on the Freeform Americana Roots Charts around the world.
If you missed hearing Tim's recent radio interviews
you can now listen to them online:
Tim
Hus interview with Alison Brock on Wide Cut Country
on CKUA
Tim
Hus interview with Chris dela Torre on Daybreak on CBC
Radio
June 11, 2010
Hello Friends!
We have posted some of the recent media articles. To
read them please click here
Vue Weekly, Edmonton's Entertainment Weekly featured
an interview with Tim Hus and recorded live studio footage
solo acoustic click
here
We have uploaded a few songs from the new album to our
MySpace Page!
To listen to Hockeytown, Sasquatch Hunter,
and Picture Butte Charlie click
here
For those of you who like to watch the latest
YouTube videos check out Tim and the band performing
Sasquatch Hunter track #8 from the new album
click
here
May 27, 2010
NEW SINGLE "HOCKEYTOWN"
IS AVAILABLE ON ITUNES!
PRESS RELEASE: TIM HUS
SHOOTS, HE SCORES!
Celebrating His New Release Hockeytown
Tim Hus is one of those guys that you can't
help but like immediately when you meet him. What you
might not realize at first though is that this lanky
and affable songwriter has a keen eye for detail and
a knack for the narrative. His songs are timeless.
This June, Tim prepares to release his 5th CD (his 2nd
CD on Stony Plain Records). He believes that his songwriting
has moved up to another plateau with this new batch
of 12 songs found on Hockeytown. There are a lot of
people who are going to agree.
Stony Plain President, Holger Petersen states, “'I
love Tim's commitment to capturing the Canadian spirit
with historic and geographic detail combined with his
sense of humour. Tim is keeping it real and soulful.'
Through hard work and non-stop touring, Tim has gathered
a large collection of fans from coast-to-coast. But,
Tim wanted to start the celebrations where it first
began here at home in Alberta. Tim wants to invite all
Albertans to come celebrate with him in their Hockeytown…
June 17
Red Deer - Matchbox Theatre (110-5301
43 Street)
Ph: (403) 341-6500
Opening Act: Dusty Dee (www.dustydee.com)
www.thematchbox.ca
June 18 (doors 7:30 pm / show 8:00
pm)
Edmonton, Uptown Folk Club, Norwood Legion
(11150 82 Street NW)
Opening Act: Matt Robertson (www.myspace.com/mattrobertsonfeatherfoot)
Tickets: $12.00 advance / $15.00 door (members $12)
Available at Tix On The Square 9930 102 Avenue Winston
Churchill Square, call 780- 420-1757 or buy online at
www.tixonthesquare.ca , and in person at Alfie Myhre's
Music (8735 118 Ave.) and Acoustic Music Shop (9934
Whyte Ave.).
June 19 @ 9:00 pm
Calgary – Ironwood Stage & Grill (1229
– 9th Avenue SE)
Opening Act: Dusty Dee (www.dustydee.com)
Tickets: $20
June 24 @ 9:00 pm
High River - Gitter's Pub
112 - 4th Avenue SW
Tickets are $10
For info please phone (403) 652 4995
June 25 @ 7:30 PM
Drumheller - The Old Grouch's
Tickets are $20
For reservations or info phone (403) 823-5755
June 26 (2:30 pm – 3:30 pm)
Gimlet - Mules & Music Festival
Feature matinee CD release concert at the Gimlet Bandstand
June 27 @ 4:00 pm
Black Diamond - The Stop
Sunday Matinee Show
Tickets are $20
For reservations or info call (403) 933 3002
Hockeytown was recorded at Homestead Studios with award-winning
engineer and producer Barry Allen. Barry reported that
when Bill Wolf was finished mastering the CD in Virginia,
he was not only excited about Tim as an artist and the
project, but that he also liked the fact he had learned
alot about Canada.
Tim is pleased to be part of the Stony Plain Records
family. He hopes that this new album will open new doors,
reach a wider audience, and extend his growing fan base
worldwide.
About his new CD, Tim said, "This is the album
I have been trying to make since I started playing music.
A freight train full of Canadiana from coast to coast.”
Join Tim Hus as he celebrate Hockeytown on Stony Plain
Records this June in a Hockeytown near you.
May 26, 2010
TIM HUS TO TOUR WITH
STOMPIN' TOM THIS SUMMER!!!
WESTERN CANADIAN TOUR
- JULY 31st to SEPTEMBER 4th
"I have been looking for 30 years for a young
guy who is proud to write songs about his own country.
I'd like to pass the torch to Tim Hus!"
---------------------------------------------------------Stompin'
Tom Connors
We are very excited to announce that Tim Hus
has been personally invited by Stompin' Tom to again
join him on tour this summer. Tim will not only be opening
each of the two nightly sets of the show but will also
be backing up the Canadian icon on stage!
Last summer, beloved Canadian treasure Stompin’
Tom Connors celebrated the release of his very own Canadian
Postage Stamp and latest studio album ,
The
Ballad of Stompin' Tom, with a tour of
Ontario and the East coast.
Tim Hus was personally contacted by Stompin' Tom and
invited to join him on the road as special guest. Some
highlights along the tour included Tom's first concert
in Newfoundland in almost 20 years and two sold out
shows at Canada's largest concert theatre at Casino
Rama.
Last year's tour was a great success and Hus was so
well received by the audiences that Tom has invited
Tim to open shows in western Canada this summer.
Stompin' Tom with special
guest Tim Hus:
The most Canadian show in the country!
April 6, 2010
Hello Everybody,
We finished recording and mixing our new album for Stony
Plain Records. We are just now putting the final touches
on the graphics and layout. The album is going to be
called "
Hockeytown"
and we are all very excited about it. This album contains
original songs written over the last year and the subject
matter covers all of the regions of Canada. There are
songs about Saskatchewan gophers and Ontario steelworkers
and Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley and all of the hockeytown's
in between. There's even a song about huntin' that elusive
Sasquatch...
We can hardly wait for you to hear it! Hopefully you
will be able to make it out to one of our CD Release
concerts in June.
For anyone interested in watching streaming video of
our concert at Alberta House in Vancouver during the
2010 Winter Olympics it can be found by clicking
here
Just scroll through the archived performances on the
left side of the screen to check out some of the many
artists from Alberta who were representing the province.
Here's a photo of Tim at our recent live concert filming
for CBC Television:
BC tour coming up.... See you soon!
Tim Hus & The Rocky Mountain Two
March 3, 2010
Hello friends!
Thanks for stopping by for a visit at our official website...always
good to have you.
We have had a busy couple of weeks as we just returned
from some performances at the 2010 Winter Olympics in
Vancouver, BC. Everyone that was fortunate enough to
be a part of the great international event on our country's
West coast was in agreement that the atmosphere was
so positive and infectious that it was quite overwhelming
and has left a lasting impression. It was certainly
an honour to be invited to perform our songs at the
event and we will certainly cherish the experience as
a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity...especially with the
story-book ending of winning the gold medal in hockey
on our home ice!
Our first show was for a truly raucus crowd of hundreds
(and thousands more on the street) at Alberta House
- the princess province's headquarters at the event.
One great party is what it was.
Our second show was in the parlour car of the Alberta
train to Whistler. The hospitality was exceptional and
it was a bit of a milestone because we have been singin'
some of our various Canadian railroad and traveling
songs for a few years now and always thought that playing
aboard the railway would have a certain pioneer romance
to it so it was great to perform in a parlour car rolling
down the shiny iron rails of the CNR. Even the Minister
of Finance and the Minister of Agriculture
were
on board and stompin' along!
Our third and final show at the Olympics was at a large
downtown venue called
Livecity Downtown where
we did our best to entertain the folks amongst all the
medal celebrations.
After a couple of sold out concerts in Southern Alberta
we are now on the French island of Martinique in the
Caribbean where our host and concert promotor Phillipe
is treating us like kings. It really feels like we are
in France here as all of the electrical outlets are
220 volt and French wine is 2.50 Euros a bottle. We
spent a day in Puerto Rico visiting San Juan and the
historic fort and for a bunch of fellas from the 'Great
White North' the palm trees, beaches, coconuts, and
friendly folks have us all in great spirits. We are
staging a big concert event here and we are told we
are the first Canadian band to perform here to anybody's
knowledge.
We are rarin' to go....after we head out for a sail
on a catamaran...
Tropical greetings from the Tim Hus Band!
January 5, 2010
Happy New Year! We wish you all the best for the year
2010 and may it be a good one for you and yours wherever
you are!
It has been a while since we have posted an update so
first off we wish to thank all of you for making last
year our best one yet. We toured all ten provinces of
Canada and started the year off in the Yukon territory
so we covered a lot of ground. We enjoyed bringing our
Canadiana stories and music to all corners of the country
and of course a particular highlight was spending the
summer on tour with Canadian icon Stompin' Tom Connors!
Canadian Interviews published
an interview with Tim Hus - you can read it by clicking
here.
Also, we posted some photos from our Eastern tour in
our photo gallery on pages 9, 10, and 11.
We will be going into the recording studio on January
10th in Edmonton at Homestead Recorders with award winning
producer/engineer Barry Allen to record our next album
for Stony Plain Records. This will be Tim's fifth album
of original songs and we are very excited about the
new songs. We'll keep you posted.
Thanks for all of your support and we look forward to
seeing you on the road.
All the best,
Tim Hus & The Two-bit Hustlers
August 24, 2009
STOMPIN' TOM PASSING THE TORCH
Hello everybody,
Summer is winding down now and so is our tour
with Stompin' Tom Connors. We have just three shows
left with the Canadian icon and then we will be continueing
on with our own touring schedule throughout Ontario
and westward across the prairies. For any of our new
friends and fans that we have met on the Stompin' Tom
tour we hope that we get the chance to see you at one
of our own shows next month. Please check our tour calander
for when and where we will be passing through a town
close to you!
A week ago we performed a concert in Sault Ste. Marie
that was a personal highlight. My father Helmut Hus
who is 73 years old (the same age as Stompin' Tom) traveled
across the land from Nelson, BC hitch-hiking and riding
freight trains to attend the concert. My father has
traveled all around the world as a seaman on ships and
hitch-hiking and has visited 101 countries. He speaks
5 languages and worked on the railroad in Western Australia
and worked as a bricklayer in Argentina as well as countless
other occupations and has really lived the life of a
vagabond and a drifter. Stompin' Tom and my dad got
along famously well and Tom kept calling him "a
kindred spirit" and saying "if we had met
out on the road years ago we would have been the best
of friends!". Later that evening at the concert
Stompin' Tom pointed my father out to the audience and
he stood up and took a bow while everyone applauded.
It was very touching and I sang a song for him that
I had written about our hometown as well. A review of
the concert was printed
here.
August 15, 2009
Hello friends,
We hope that your summer is going good wherever you
may be and that you have had the chance to take in plenty
of live music at the summer festivals and jamborees
throughout this great land. We have spent the last month
on the road with the one and only Stompin' Tom Connors:
legendary Canadian singer/songwriter. We worked all
kinds of shows throughout the maritime provinces and
then flew over to Newfoundland in a small propeller
plane to play a concert at Mile One Stadium in St. John's.
That completes the Grand Tour as we have performed concerts
this year in all Canadian provinces from Vancouver Island
to Newfoundland and the year started out with concerts
in the Yukon territory so you see we are doing our very
best to bring our brand of Canadiana cowboy music to
every corner of the country. We celebrated in Newfoundland
with a great meal of "fish and brewis" and
of course washed 'er down with plenty of Blackhorse
and Dominion. The shows with Stompin' Tom are going
great and we are making plenty of new fans at every
show and it is truly an honour to watch Stompin' Tom
sing his songs of the land to his thousands of loyal
fans every night. I don't believe we have ever drank
so much Moosehead beer in our whole lives...
July 24, 2009
Hello friends,
Hopefully you are all havin' a good summer wherever
you may be... from the mountains and the prairies to
the maritimes. We are now rollin' on the Stompin' Tom
tour and just arrived
on Prince Edward
Island where we got into one of the biggest lobster
feasts ever seen. The guys in the band are all getting
along great and we are havin' a really fine time.
A couple of nights ago a longtime dream of mine came
true as I performed for the first time on the same stage
as one of my biggest musical idols: Canadian icon Stompin'
Tom Connors.
We played two sets and
there seemed to be no end to the enthusiasm of the audience.
Stompin' Tom even told the audience from the stage that
he was proud to have me on this tour and that of all
the opening acts that he has had over the years that
I am his favorite because I'm singin' all of those Canadian
songs and giving a voice to the Canadian people like
he has been doing for so long and that he is "passing
along the torch". Certainly one of the most touching
moments of my career thus far. We are really lookin'
forward to seein' you all very soon and making a whole
potato truckful of new fans on the East Coast.
All the best,
Tim
May 12, 2009
TIM HUS TO TOUR WITH STOMPIN' TOM THIS SUMMER!!!
