Brian Campbell

PAST PERFORMANCES

2026

• April 22; Seniors' Centre
• April 11: Brian and Friends, Mariposa Café, Montreal. Featuring Ryan Stotland, Donna Martirano, Chard Chénier, Zoë Just. 
• Mar. 27: Featured, with Zoë Just, Flute, at the Yellow Door Hootananny, Montreal.

• March 12: Seniors' centre

2025

• Dec. 16. 17: Seniors' centres
• Nov. 28. Featured, with Zoë Just, Flute, at the Yellow Door Hootananny, Montreal.
• Nov. 2 Café Komma Rosta, Montreal. Two sets of covers and originals, accompanied by flautist Zoë Just.
• Oct. 9: Seniors' centre
• Sept. 13: Hudson Porchfest: Played a set of originals and covers accompanied by flautist Zöe Just. 
• August 24, Komma Rosta, Montreal. A couple of solo sets of originals and covers at this friendly Japanese-themed cafe-resto. 
• August 7: Montreal Musicians for World Peace, Parc Notre-Dame-de-Gras, Montreal. Contributed two peace/anti-war songs, the iconic “Get Together” and my own “Lullaby for My Love,” to this public festival.
• June 29: A couple of lunchtime sets of covers and originals with flautist Zoë Just at Komma Rosta, Montreal
• June 26: Launch of Red Bolero by Karen Ocaña, published by my chapbook impint, Sky of Ink Press. Poetry. Argo Books, Montreal 

• June 19, 2025 “LET'S TALK” ALBUM LAUNCH. Guest Artists: Jeff Deeprose, Violin; Zöe Just, Flute; Daniella Carbert, trumpet; Victor Labelle, lead electric guitar and dobro; Phil Peters, bass. Mariposa Café,  Montreal
• June 9. Poetry reading/music performance, financially supported by the League of Canadian Poets. Logos Reading Series, Montreal
• Mar. 21. Featured, with Zoë Just, Flute, at the Yellow Door Hootananny, Montreal.
• Feb. 19-Sun. Feb 23: Folk Alliance International Conference, Montreal. Played three private showcases. 

• Jan. 19: Featured in Gallagher's Singer-Songwriter Showcase, along with with fellow songwriters Corina Vincelli, Larry Cool and Sergio Barile, with host Brian Gallagher. Mariposa Cafe, Montreal.  

2024

• Nov. 21: Contributed a couple of songs to the Lawn Chair Soiree publications party, and played lead guitar with Marie-Josee Tremblay on a couple of her songs. 
• Nov. 16: Brunch Musicale at La Place Commune, Montreal.
• Sept. 27: Played at the open mic at The Shakespeare Public House, Málaga, Spain (I don't usually include in this list open mics, in which I participate almost weekly in Montreal, but this was special. Videos are on YouTube.)
• Sept. 14: Featured performer at Hudson Porchfest, Hudson, Quebec. 
• June 1: Brunch musicale at La Place Commune, Montreal.
• May 23. “Weather” reading at Argo Books, 1841A St-Catherine St. W. I was featured along with Cora Sire, Jerome Ramcharitar, Maria Caltibiano, Kelly Nora Drukker, Jan jorgensen, Caroline Vu, Connie Guzzo McParland. Read a poems and played a song.
• May 18: Brunch Musicale at La Place Commune, Montreal.
• May 10: Launch of Ethel Meilleur’s chapbook, Tinkle Little Tootie (published by my imprint, Sky of Ink Press.) Co-hosted and contributed music for the evening. YWCA, 1355 Rene Levesque West, Montreal.
• April 28: EP LAUNCH: THE CRYSTAL RIM.  Guest artist: Jeff Deeprose. Mariposa Cafe, Montreal. 
• April 24: Interview with songs from A Crystal Rim on CKUT Radio’s New Spins Library, Montreal, 90.3 FM; also on program archives.
• April 8. Featured at Logos Readings Series, Montreal. Read poetry, played one song. Reading supported by the League of Canadian Poets. 
• Feb. 24: Brunch Musicale at La Place Commune, Montreal
• February 8. Played music at the launch of the murder mystery Novembers by Norm Cristofoli, Phoenix Books, Montreal.  

2023

• Friday October 6: Benefit Concert for the Victims of the Moroccan Earthquake. Played four songs, including two from my upcoming album, A Crystal Rim, in an evening that featured a dozen other artists. La marché à coté, 5043 rue St-Denis, Montreal.
• Sept. 18: LAUNCH OF BY THE RIVER'S BLUE AT MARIPOSA CAF´E
• Sept. 9, featured at the Hudson Porch Fest, Hudson, Quebec. 
• Sept. 8, 2023: Poetry Reading/Music at Café sans frontiers, Stanstead, Quebec, also featuring Jocelyne Dubois, Steve Luxton, and Ethel Meilleur. Sponsored by the Stanstead Arts Project. 
• June 25, 3pm: Côte St-Luc Allée/Driveway Music Fest. Played a 45 min. set at this fledgling fest. Actually I didn’t get word that the event was called off due to Quebec wildfire smoke, and was only one of two acts that braved the haze that day. 
• May 24-30, 2023; vernissage Saturday May 27. Jocelyne Dubois and I shared Galerie Espace on Montreal’s Boulevard St-Laurent for a joint show of my photos and her mixed media paintings. The vernissage featured a brief set where I was accompanied by Jeff Deeprose on the fiddle. Here’s a video tour of the exhibition.
• May 21: NDG Porchfest, Montreal: performed a full set with guest artist Jeff Deeprose on the fiddle, to a nice-sized crowd. 
• May 3: Performed two songs, “Surprise” and “On This Shore”, at the Pub Classique, Kin Musique, Montreal. 
• Jan. 28, Feb. 4, Apr 29, Oct. 28: Brunches musicales at La Place Commune, Montreal. Two hour sets of originals and covers at this friendly, intimate café.

with vocalist Leesa Mackey at Hudson Porchfest, 2022

2022

• Saturday, Sept. 10: Hudson Porchfest. Performed a full set of songs on By The River’s Blue with Leesa Mackey, backup vocalist on the album. 
• May to August: I played solo sets most weeks at the Depanneur Café, 206 rue Bernard Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, filling in for musicians who said on the cafe’s FB site that they couldn’t make it. Didn’t take a regular spot because so many friends were coming down with Covid… such are the times we live in. Now once again I have a regular spot on the rotation, Thursdays at 1, through mid-August to Sept. 
• April 7: Argo Zoom Reading Series: featured musician in this Montreal literary evening. Zoom.
• Jan. 19, Feb. 23, Mar. 30: Gratitude Shows #2-4, Brian Campbell Solo, Facebook Live.

2021

• Ongoing: co-hosted the Lawn Chair Soirée, a Montreal literary reading series. 
• August 5, Argo Zoom Reading Series. I read “The Arrow”, a poem in Shimmer Report, and played a song derived from it at this Montreal literary event. 
• June 30-July 5: Galerie Espace, Montreal: My photographs were displayed along with paintings by Chard Chenier.  Here’s a video tour of the show. 
• June 16: CKUT (90.3FM, Montreal) Interview and airing of selections of On This Shore on Wednesday Morning After (7-9am) hosted by Sheila Ferraro. It’s available in the CKUT archives, but I also made a photo montage Youtube video out of it! It’s also posted on the Video page.
• May 28: “Shadows on Our Joy” from my album “On this Shore” was played on Just Us Folk, hosted by Jan Vanderhorst at justusfolk.com. Second song in the first hour.A fine radio show, highly recommended.
• May 17: La Palabrava. Featured as both reader and musician at this Montreal multilingual reading series. Zoom; Facebook.
• Apr. 27: Club Passim virtual open mic, Cambridge, Mass. Facebook Live, Youtube.
• Feb. 17, March 17: Private Event: Vie Autonome/Independent Living, Montreal. Zoom.   
• Feb. 4: Argo Books reading series. Featured performer. Zoom. 
• Jan. 27: Private Event: Vie Autonome/Independent Living, Montreal. Zoom.   
• Jan. 22: Living Room Session, an hour-long solo set at Mariposa Café, Montreal. Facebook Live. 
• Jan 12: Club Passim virtual open mic, Cambridge, Mass. Facebook Live, Youtube.  
• Jan. 1: Zoom launch of Jocelyne Dubois’ Memorial Suite, presented by Lawn chair soirée. Videos played of A Quiet Place, Wild and Free. 

2020

• Ongoing: co-hosted the Lawn Chair Soirée, a Montreal literary reading series. 
• Nov. 5: Argo Zoom Reading Series. Performed music and poetry at this literary event.  
• Sept. 29 and Nov. 17: Club Passim virtual open mic. Cambridge, Mass. Facebook Live, Youtube.
• May, June: Tuesday evenings: 45-min. shows of music and poetry, Facebook Live  
• April 5: Virtual launch of “On This Shore”. Facebook Live.   
• Feb. 8: Rumi Ways of Love – Meditation and Song Circle. Four Rumi poems set to music, performed with Joseph Emet. Yoga d’Eveil, Montreal. 
• February 5: Warm Winter Wednesdays Solo Live Performance, Mariposa Cafe, Montreal

2019

• Ongoing: Depanneur Cafe, played once a week for the lunch hour crowd, Jan to June; Sept to Dec. 
• Ongoing: co-hosted the Lawn Chair Soirée, a Montreal literary reading series. 
• Dec. 19 Argo Reading Series. Played two poems put to music, and read poetry as well.
• Dec. 7: Launch of Ethel Meilleur’s “Funny Girl”, published by my chapbook imprint, Sky of Ink Press. Ethel read from her new book; I performed songs at this well attended event. YWCA, Montreal.
• Nov. 19: The lawn chair soirée, a monthly reading series I co-organize and co-host. This month, performed music. Italian United Church, Montreal.
• Sat. Sept. 14. Hudson Porchfest. Featured as a singer/songwriter in this music festival. Hudson, Quebec.
• Aug. 17: Rumi’s Ways of Love, Meditation and Musical Circle. Performed poems of Rumi and Hafiz put to music. Montreal, Quebec.
• Aug. 11 Lawn chair soirée/Poetry in the Park. Performed music at this event.
• August 8: Argo Reading Series. Played music at this literary event. 
• June 21: Montreal Serai Writers’ and Artists’ Gala. Performed music at this event commemorating 32nd anniversary of the online review, Montreal Serai, Espace Knox, Montreal. 
• June 5: 3 Lands, 4 Voices, One Planet: played music and read poetry; featured with writers Veena Gokhale, Rae Marie Taylor, Laure Morali and Rita Mestokosho, Librarie Bertrand, Montreal   
• May 20: NDG Porchfest. Featured performer; one hour set at Mariposa Café terrace. Montreal 
• Mar. 8: Side Door Coffee House: Featured performance with Phil Peters, bass. Pierrefonds, Quebec.
• March 2: Brian Campbell w/Phil Peters on bass, with JB Demouy @ Mariposa Café, Montreal.