{"id":4694,"date":"2013-11-20T18:44:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T23:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=4694"},"modified":"2013-12-04T14:16:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T19:16:22","slug":"reid-jamieson-brings-indie-soul-to-cultural-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/reid-jamieson-brings-indie-soul-to-cultural-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Reid Jamieson brings Indie soul to Cultural Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Singer Reid Jamieson doesn\u2019t shy away from showing his sensitive side.<\/p>\n

Whether that can be attributed to his wife \u2013 and song writing partner \u2013 or his dad who was always the one \u201ccrying at the SPCA commercials\u201d, he\u2019s not exactly sure. One thing he is sure about \u2013 \u201cwe\u2019re not afraid to be romantic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Jamieson, a British Columbia native, will bring his unique voice \u2013 \u201ca male k.d. lang, a poor man\u2019s Michael Buble, and Roy Orbison\u2019s log-lost son,\u201d he jokes \u2013 to the Aurora Cultural Centre next Thursday, November 28.<\/p>\n

Fresh off Toronto engagements, including performing \u201cThe Kennedy Suite\u201d in Toronto at the Winter Garden Theatre, Mr. Jamieson says he is \u201cso excited\u201d to come to Aurora\u2019s \u201camazing\u201d venue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love intimate venues,\u201d he says. \u201cHouse concerts are a really big part of our lives right now. We have been doing them on the west coast of the states and different parts of Canada, and there is something to being up close.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Jamieson is a veteran of the touring Vinyl Caf\u00e9, and it was through Vinyl Caf\u00e9 musician John Sheard that he connected with the Cultural Centre.
\n\u201cMy favourite kind of show is one that still has a good amount of variety so it feels right,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s that time of year, so there will be a bunch of winter themed songs, but we put on a pretty romantic show. I think that is a general theme that ties it all together.<\/p>\n

\u201cSongs that really blossom are songs that can be just one line that really says something to you. It just cuts through and it keeps coming up. I know just from being an audience member at some of these shows that you get to a point sometimes where you\u2019re wondering what a song is about or where they are going, then there is that one moment where it all comes together. It is amazing how you can capture every day human things, and when you put it in a song, you can really feel more deeply about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Jamieson says he first realised he could make something out of his voice around 2001. He had broken up with his band the previous year and just started writing songs by and for himself. He began playing instruments he wasn\u2019t used to, tried on a Toronto show called \u201cBoys Play Girls\u201d where he did the songs of Carole King, and, within her words, found an \u201camazing soulfulness\u201d that he wanted to find within himself. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat night went particularly well,\u201d he says. It was the first time I ever had a standing ovation and I was just so inspired by that to really push myself to sing songs in a heartfelt way,\u201d he says. \u201cSomething just happened. I love to sing, and singing is the main starting place for anything. I still feel just singing what I genuinely feel is dictating my style. Sometimes from one week to the next, little songs are popping up that don\u2019t really sound like the song from last week, but my voice keeps it together.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Reid Jamieson Trio appears as part of the Aurora Cultural Centre\u2019s Indie Music Series. Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 the day of the concert. Concert begins at 8 p.m. For more information, visit auroraculturalcentre.ca. <\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Singer Reid Jamieson doesn\u2019t shy away from showing his sensitive side.<\/p>\n

Whether that can be attributed to his wife \u2013 and song writing partner \u2013 or his dad who was always the one \u201ccrying at the SPCA commercials\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-20-09.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-1dI","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 12:53:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}