Canadian artists - they’re everywhere!
Canadian musicians - and one who wants to be - are in the news this week. For good, bad, and weird reasons.
Feist’s (irritatingly!) hooky song, 1 2 3 4, is going to be part of the start of Sesame Street’s new season. She will appear on the show’s August 11th season premiere, performing a modified version of her ubiquitous hit song. Feist gets to stroll down Sesame Street accompanied by muppets, sharing her love of counting to four. Feist says shooting the episode was “the best day of her life.” I hope someone teaches the little ones how to count from five and beyond!
Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies has been arrested in New York on drug possession charges. His manager says Page will be cleared once the facts are known. He’s out on $10,000 bail and has a court appearance scheduled for tomorrow. The arrest occurred at about 2 a.m. last Friday after patrolling police noticed a suspicious car with its driver’s side door left open and found a man and woman in a nearby apartment, with a white capsule in front of them.
The man was apparently identified by the woman as Page and he admitted it. It’s alleged the drug was cocaine. Ladies bassist Jim Creeggan told the Toronto Star Page was in New York state visiting some friends, while the rest of the band was back at home in Canada.
And the fake David Lee Roth has been found. Police near Brantford earlier reported they pulled over a man who said he was the Van Halen lead singer and helped him through an allergy attack. The guy is really, reportedly, David Kuntz. The real Roth says he wasn’t in Canada at the time. If you see a picture of Kuntz you can see how he could fool someone who wasn’t a superfan that he was Roth - if that’s in fact what happened. It’s what police say happened. But I have to say “allegedly” until I hear, personally, from the man himself.