The Guess Who News

Forget "American Woman"! For me, the signature Guess Who tune is "These Eyes," as heart-rending a breakup song as you'll ever hear.

Can-Con rockers looking for facial hair inspiration will, at some point, end up in the vortex of Burton Cummings, who deserves points for stick-to-it-iveness if nothing else.

The rock 'n' roll business has been celebrating Movember - the annual month-long event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November - for decades.

Growing up in Havana, Juan de Marcos Gonzalez's ambition, like most teenagers, was to become a big American rock singer.

Guess who's here to sing for Surrey's mayor and her cronies? Burton Cummings, that's who.

BURTON Cummings is ensuring himself good oral health karma by playing a fundraiser for the University of Manitoba Dental Association.

Every fall, finding classic rock is as easy as crossing a bridge to Gretna. In recent years, the Gretna Heritage Festival has featured such where-are-they-now acts as Eddie Money, Foghat and Three Dog Night.

Where can you find rides, fair food, games and fun for people of all ages? This weekend when you head to Durham for the 93rd annual Durham Fair.

The annual Durham Fair - running Friday through Sunday - this year will feature more than 12,000 exhibits in art, baking, canning, crafts, produce, giant pumpkins, horticulture, needlework and photography.

The rocker who sang No Sugar Tonight is being honoured by the University of Manitoba Dental Alumni Association.

Ruidoso expects to host more than 35,000 motorcycles during its annual Golden Aspen Motorcycle Rally, September 16-20. The rally will headquarter at the Ruidoso Downs Race Track Sports Theater Building on Highway 70.

There are also tracks from Brtal Legend "star" Jack Black's band Tenacious D. It'll actually be pretty quiet week, as the Wii doesn't add its usual mega-list of back catalog tracks and is in sync with the Xbox and PS3 versions.

1976 - Paul McCartney marked Buddy Holly's 40th birthday with "Buddy Holly Week" in Britain.

The nation's largest free outdoor Christian music festival wraps up today at Wild Water West.

Big-name entertainment, a rodeo, the traditional carnival and rides plus the best of exhibits from across the state all headline this year's South Dakota State Fair in Huron this week.

Canada's copyright consultations are rapidly drawing to a close and the excellent folks at Canadian Internet giant Tucows have hired David Weinberger to write a plain-language, brilliantly argued submission.

Parks Canada formally announced this morning a heritage-restoration grant it handed to the Burton Cummings Theatre in July.

CBC The Guess Who, led by Burton Cummings , were on top of the world in the early SSRq70s.

As we get older our tastes become more refined. For instance most people have settled on a preferred genre of music by the time they reach adulthood and don't waiver much from that.

Two new documentaries exploring the Canadian music scene in the 1970s and '80s sound like they could be a bad trip in a hippie van, packed with a mullet band and a punk hitchhiker.