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George Bowser and Ricky Blue
career notes ....
George Bowser and Rick Blue have been writing and performing music and comedy together since 1978. Colorectal Surgeons around the world are familiar with them through the song 'Working Where the Sun Don't Shine', which was first heard on 'Madly Off In All Directions' in 1997.
They appeared at the 2008 edition of the Just For Laughs comedy Festival, with Joan Rivers and many other fine comedians. That performance was telecast in January 2009 on CBC-TV. They can often be seen on television shows compiled from their many festival appearances since 1988.
Also in 2008, they appeared at Montreal's Centaur Theatre in "The 25th Century Belongs to Canada," a follow-up to the highly successful "Four Anglos of the Apocalypse." This was a comic perspective on the last 30 years of politics in Quebec, narrated by film-maker and humorist Josh Freed, with music by Bowser and Blue and cartoons by award-winning cartoonist Terry Mosher (Aislin). Highlights from the show were presented at Toronto's IdeaCity festival in 2007.
They have recorded with Supertramp's Rick Davies, and with Kimberley Rew, Vince de la Cruz, Alex Cooper and Katrina Leskanich of Katrina and the Waves. They also recorded a song with the late great MacLean and MacLean.
They have written and appeared in many full-length Theatre shows, most recently the musical 'The Paris of America,' which ran for seven sold-out weeks at Montreal's Centaur Theatre in 2003. Previous shows include the smash hits 'Blokes' and 'Blokes Deux.'
Bowser and Blue were featured in the CBC-TV broadcast of 'Mid-Life Crazy,' with host Cathy Jones, taped at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival in 2005. In the fall of 2004, they toured Performing Arts Centres and Community Theatres in Alberta, and brought their show to Ontario theatres later in 2005, with a subsequent tour of Atlantic Canada in early 2006.
In 2003 they collaborated with Terry Mosher to produce 'The Illustrated Canadian Songbook', which comes with a companion CD. The Christmas TV special 'Two Nuts Roasting On An Open Fire' was nominated for a Gemini.
They have recorded 10 CDs on their own 'You Guys' label, and 4 on Montreal’s Justin Time label.
Bowser and Blue wrote and performed the music for the NFB animated film "Scant Sanity," by John Weldon, and for the TV show "Misguided Angels." The instrumental guitar music for that show, "Red Guitars,"is what you hear in the auditorium between shows at B&B concerts.
for beginners ....
BOWSER & BLUE - a few facts
WHO: George Bowser and Rick Blue
WHAT: A music and comedy duo
WHO PLAYS WHAT: Rick plays acoustic guitar and harmonica. George plays electric and acoustic guitars.
WHERE: they live in Montreal
WHEN: They have been performing together since October, 1978
WHY: After years in their own 'rock' bands, they joined forces as a duo when the disco phenomenon made gigs hard for bands to find.
STRANGE BUT TRUE: Former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin once said Bowser and Blue are his "favourite band."
body of work ....
| Latest Releases: |
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| ‘No Ordinary Dummies’CD: |
| ‘We’re All Here’DVD: |
| 'Humor for Boomers'DVD & CD; |
| 'The Illustrated Canadian Songbook', |
| Book & CD (with cartoons by Aislin); |
| 'Pull My finger'CD. |
| Awards: | |
|---|---|
| Du Maurier Council for the Performing Arts 'Special Merit Award' | - 1979 |
| Canadian Organisation of Campus Acitivities Entertainer of the Year | - 1986 |
| COCA Best in Comedy and Variety on Campus | - 1987 |
| COCA Best in Comedy and Variety on Campus | - 1991 |
| Theatrical Shows | ||
|---|---|---|
| 'The 25th Century Belongs To Canada' | Theatres Lac Brome & Centaur | 2008 |
| 'Down Our Way, and Up Yours' | Theatre Lac Brome | 2007 |
| 'The 4 Anglos of the Apocalypse' | Theatres Lac Brome & Centaur | 2006 |
| 'The Paris of America' | Centaur Theatre | 2003 |
| 'The Two and Only' | Hudson Theatre | 2002 |
| 'A Pile of Hits' | Theatre Lac Brome | 2001 |
| 'We're All Here (because we’re not all there)' | Theatre Lac Brome | |
| 'Two Smart Fellers' | Theatre Lac Brome | 1998 |
| 'La Fete Carree' (a Woodstock for Square heads) | Just for Laughs | 1997 |
| 'Mainly Montreal' | Centaur Theatre | 1997 |
| 'Troubadours Through Time' | Centaur Theatre | 1996 |
| 'Something Bowser, Something Blue' | Theatre Lac Brome | 1995 |
| 'Blokes 2' | Centaur Theatre | 1994 |
| 'The Best of Bowser and Blue' | The Piggery | 1993 |
| 'Blokes' | Centaur Theatre | 1992 |