Professional freelance writer… David DeRocco
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Freelance Writer For Hire In NiagaraBelow find a selection of articles, research pieces, feature writing,
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Taylor Dayne: Beauty and the Beat
By David DeRocco The late 80s and early 90s were a breeding ground for big, mega-selling, larger than life female recording artists who ruled the charts in multiple genres. Madonna, Janet, Whitney, Celine, Mariah, Britney, Alanis and Shania are all names quickly...
Crazy “8s” at Niagara Artists Centre
By David DeRocco There are musical performances accompanied by a backdrop of projected images; there are film screenings that conversely feature soundtracks of recorded music. Then there is A NEW PLACE TO DWELL, a multi-media mash up being orchestrated by Canadian...
Brighton Rock – Vintage Niagara Metal
BY David DeRocco Greg Fraser and Stevie Skreebs aren’t as young as they were when their band, Brighton Rock, was ruling the Canadian metal charts during their ‘80s heyday. But they’re still wild and free, a mutual state of mind that comes with being at peace with...
Ian Thornley – The Process of Revealing SECRETS
By David DeRocco Ian Thornely’s got a new solo album, a packed tour schedule, a sore throat and something he hasn’t had in a long time: performance jitters. Chatting with GoBe Weekly the day after the tour’s first show in Montreal, one where monitor issues required...
Tim Hicks: Homegrown Country Comes Back Home
By David DeRocco At the time of our conversation, Tim Hicks and his band are rolling toward Vancouver, three weeks into a rollicking road trip dubbed the “Get A Little Crazy Tour 2015.” Does the “crazy” in the tour name reflect the fact this Canadian country music...
Lakes of Canada: Channeling Margaret Atwood through Transgressions
By David DeRocco A staged terrorist attack on the United States blamed on Muslim extremists kills the President and wipes out most of Congress. In the resulting chaos, a totalitarian Christian theocracy rises to overthrow the U.S. government, suspending the...
ZZ TOP: View From the Mountaintop
By David DeRocco There’s a rarified air that exists when you’re sitting on top of the mountain, viewing the world from a position of fame and fortune. As the lyricist, musical arranger, vocalist and de facto leader of Texas blues-rock superstars ZZ Top, Billy Gibbons...
Great Canadian Campout – CWF & Johnny Reid
CLIENT: Canadian Wildlife Federation WRITTEN BY: David DeRocco PSA: GREAT CANADIAN...
CWF “HOLIDAY WISHES” Campaign 2015
CLIENT: Canadian Wildlife Federation CWF SCRIPT: “HOLIDAY WISHES” (:30) TO AIR: NOVEMBER 1 – JANUARY 5 V/O: Canadian Wildlife Federation presents, “Holiday wishes, kid style…” V1: I wish… there were more butterflies to chase V/2: I wish my school had classrooms...
Six Degrees of Paul Rodgers
By David DeRocco Paul Rodgers is one highly connected rock superstar. Not in the stereotypical “Sopranos” kind of connection, although he might very well be. More in the “six degrees of separation” kind of way, with Rodgers at the centre of an inspired universe you...
Darlene Love: A Star is Reborn
By David DeRocco Darlene Love began her career while still in high school, recording for legendary producer Phil Spector in a little-known girl group called The Blossoms. It’s ironic then in 2015, over half a century into her hard-earned Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
Boz Scaggs: For the Love of the Music
By David DeRocco If you had to speculate on the type of blood Boz Scaggs has running through his veins, Type O might be a good guess. It would only make sense that the fluids flowing through a musician so versatile would be classified as “universal.” Scaggs has...
Rising Stars Niagara: Khea Emmanuel
By David DeRocco Passionate fans of jazz music will tell you listening to jazz music is good for the soul. As it turns out, it’s also good for your brain. A study conducted at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine determined that the brains of jazz...
Rising Stars Niagara: Mel Monaco
By David DeRocco No one paid a cover charge to get in. But there, in a dimly lit nightclub, in front of a weathered velvet stage curtain and an even more-weathered crowd of Sunday afternoon lunch special types, stood an artist clearly paying her dues. Standing tall...
Peller Estates Goes Mobile
If you need any more proof of the concept of evolution, look no further than at these two seemingly disparate examples: the mobile food truck, and the Niagara winery. As two species often pegged for extinction in the 20th century, both the food truck and the Niagara...
The Sanctuary: Putting Ridgeway On The Map
There was a time when wanting to have fun in Ridgeway, Ontario, meant getting in your car and leaving town. These days, however, there’s a “sanctuary” drawing people back to Ridgeway that could make this tiny hamlet one of the most happening live event hubs in...
Ginger St. James – Serving Up “Diesel & Peas”
By David DeRocco When a country girl named Ginger St. James aims to serve you up a heapin’ helpin’ of “Diesel and Peas,” – well mister, you just better accept her invite and her hospitality. ‘Cause if you don’t – well sir, you’re a’gonna miss yourself some mighty fine...
Ron Sexsmith – Riding The “Carousel” of Success
By David DeRocco In a musical universe ruled by over-digitalized, over-processed, Auto-Tune filtered pop stars who take years to manufacture their quickly disposable products, it’s good to know an internationally respected singer/songwriter can step into a studio with...
Hollerado – On the Verge of Greatness
By David DeRocco The members of Hollerado are on the verge – of releasing a new album, of embarking on a summer tour, of finally achieving the level of success that’s so-far evaded them, and maybe, on the verge of a massive breakdown from exhaustion. Who really knows...
Steppenwolf’s Magic Carpet Ride Continues
By David DeRocco Wild things are meant to stay wild, free to roam and wander until Father Time and Mother Earth conspire to turn them to dust. For a rock band that has made “Born to be Wild” their anthem for more than four decades, Steppenwolf is far from ready to be...
Protest The Hero: Hard Metal Forged In Canada
By David DeRocco Progressive music, by definition, should always be moving forward, mutating, morphing and transforming into new and exciting hybrids. Take PROTEST THE HERO for example, five friends from Whitby who have evolved into Canada’s pre-eminent progressive...
Rik Emmett’s Latest Triumph
By David DeRocco Rik Emmett’s current bio says he’s “digging in deep at his revamped Rec Room Studio,” experimenting with digital technology and recording music he’s planning on releasing in “a steady stream of new songs” without worrying about the content forming a...
89.1 Reasons To Listen To Country Music
By David DeRocco: It didn’t take a reduction in aerosol cans or lower carbon emissions to help repair the giant hole in the airwaves over Niagara. All it took was a really solid application to the CRTC, two years of legal and administrative finagling, a few months of...
BRENT BUTT: CANADA’S REIGNING COMEDY KING
By David DeRocco There’s probably dozens of surreal moments that occur over a lifetime when you’re a kid from small-town Saskatchewan who winds up becoming an international comedy, television and movie star. For Tisdale-born Brent Butt, one of the strangest such...
HEADSTONES “CHAMBER MUSIC” TAKES AIM AT BAND’S CLASSICS
By DAVID DeROCCO In the art community, there is never a valid reason to recreate a masterpiece; originals have no equal, and interpretations are at best mere forgeries that can never measure up to the artist’s initial creative vision. Bottom line – no one wants to see...
ALAN DOYLE’S GREAT BIG SOLO SUCCESS
By David DeRocco “The long road’s behind us” declares Alan Doyle on SO LET’S GO, the eponymous lead-off track on the new solo album from the longtime voice of Great Big Sea. And yet, with everything going on in Alan’s life – a new album, a new memoir and a new solo...
Canadian Wildlife Federation — PRINT PORTFOLIO
PRINT AD: CANADIAN WILDLIFE magazine
HARMONY AND HAPPINESS WITH SERENA RYDER
By David DeRocco Serena Ryder is hanging out in a studio in NYC, enjoying a rare four-day window with not much to do but revel in some well-earned recreational time – she’s chilling, touring Times Square, and talking music with friends. She’s writing again, recording...
AGREE TO AN AGREEMENT DURING SEPARATION
It’s a strange phenomenon exclusive to human relationships that two people who had trouble agreeing on things while married suddenly think they will agree on things as they head for divorce. After all, there’s a reason why civil wars are often the bloodiest battles:...
THE WRITE KNIGHT BLOG — BIRTHDAY MUSINGS 2014
I turn 53 today, and what have I learned having reached this lofty age? For starters, I recognize that 53 is just a number. People over 30 say that. People over 40 understand it. We people over 50 know that age isn’t defined by a number, it’s reflected in our...
Kim Mitchell — Canada’s Newest Songwriting Hall of Fame Member
By David DeRocco dave@gobeweekly.com https://twitter.com/?lang=en There are currently 50 names in the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, the non-profit, bilingual, apolitical and national hall founded in 1998 to effectively deal with the...
Camp Maple Leaf: Indigenous Teachings Add To Camp Experience
The Kawartha Lakes are a chain of lakes in south-central Ontario that form the upper watershed of the Trent River. Among the lakes included in the chain is Pidgeon Lake, which sits just west of Buckhorn Lake and, slightly further east, Curve Lake. Within Pidgeon Lake...
Dewey Bunnell: Captain AMERICA
By David DeRocco As a country America may have a bit of an international image problem right now. But as the band who hit #1 with “Sister Golden Hair,” AMERICA is still infinitely more popular internationally than the country’s golden-haired tin-man of a POTUS will...
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