Brian
@Capital B Blues
Ottawa, ON Canada
Joined Mar 3, 2012
Capital B is Ottawa musician Brian McPhillips. His life experiences compel him to perform his own original music. He does so with the courage required to perform his own music and bare his life and his soul to a room full of strangers. It’s a calling and a craft.
Capital B began at the age of 17 by performing out-of-town and local venues until he was 25. He has toured the area extensively, playing clubs and bars in Hamilton, Burlington, Oakville, Peterborough, and Montreal. Locally he played many of the prime venues of the day. He twice performed at the National Arts Centre, the N.A.C. Opera House and, in ‘73, a week-long booking in the NAC theatre.
But… At the age of 25 he quit music entirely, selling all his guitars and musical gear. Instead, he pursued a career as a television cameraman & worked as a freelancer for all the local broadcasters as well as several local production companies.
These years held many struggles for this talented singer/songwriter. In 1995, after a 20-year absence from the music scene in Ottawa he bought a Stratocaster and began to re-learn his instrument in a Blues style writing his own original tunes, wrought from many years of real-life experience.
Artistically he decided he must be his own person, not a ‘cover-tune-cardboard-cut-out’.
Since returning to the Ottawa music scene 12 years ago after a two decade ‘retirement’, he has consistently set his bar for quality original material at a very high level.
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