The making of the Brothers Dube Git’Awkee Stick courteasy of Brian at the Ottawa Folklore Center
Category: Hockey
0 Brothers Dube street hockey
0 The making of the Brothers Dubé Git’Awkee Stick
0 The ongoing evolution of our GIT’AWKEE STICK!!!!
When we became a band, Liam had to make a choice between competitive hockey (AAA) and the band… lucky for us, he picked the band… and here’s what we did with his hockey stick… being tested along with the goalie-bass on the Holiday Train before leaving the train yard for showtime with Canadian Folk Legend Valdy! This is “Game On” from our album… it was inspired by two of our favorite things… HOCKEY and RUSH!!!
1 Quinn Among Habs Friends
Quinn, our drummer, get a lot of ribbing and brotherly grief for wearing his Habs jersey when we think he should wear his Sens jersey. Yes he has a Sens jersey.
Saturday night he was among friends when Dad took him to the Montreal Canadians (les Canadiens). It was a night off from performing on the CP Holiday Train, but Quinn was getting it on at the hockey game. Check it out…
3 Surprise!!! United Way Community Builder Award
We were at Scotiabank Place, getting ready for a performance for the United Way (Sens Sational Sunday). We’re testing our new git’awkee sticks (more on that later). After our sound check we go down to ice level to relax. There are a bunch of announcements… United Way thanks its donors and volunteers with events like these to show their appreciation to those who help make Ottawa a better place.
While we listen to the announcements, we hear about the Community Builder Award, which honors Ottawa’s outstanding volunteers who make Ottawa a better place. Award recipients are also honored by having their names inscribed on the Wall of Inspiration at Ottawa City Hall. That’s pretty cool. While we listen to all this, (Quinn staring at the Jumbotron wondering how long until we eat, Jan trying to remember where he put those square batteries that go in his wireless transmitter, and Liam wishing he had access to Wi-Fi), suddenly we hear the name of the winner, “THE BROTHERS DUBE!!!”
In perfect Harmony, Quinn, Jan, and Liam say, “Hunh?”
Jan had only a few words to the crowd, “I’m really glad to see people are recognizing these efforts.”
Thank you from all of us to the kind folks at the United Way and CJOH for taking the time to recognize us. You folks are a class act…
Click on the picture to read more about it…
United Way Community Builder Award at Scotiabank Place
1 Brothers Dubé News April 2011
We met our $100,000 milestone for Haiti on March 13 at a fundraiser at the Heart and Crown in the Byward Market, Ottawa.
We have been in the recording studio and are releasing an album in May. We will donate 50% (that’s half) the proceeds to Haiti, which will be matched by Arcade Fire. We recently co-wrote a song with Sean Verreault of Wide Mouth Mason. He’s pretty cool!
We recently posted a video “Boom Boom – Out go the Lights” bringing some awareness to safety in hockey (concussions) which was featured in the Globe and Mail two weeks ago.
We are getting ready for another year of busking and touring. We plan a tour in our ancestral (that’s old) homeland Ireland in late August, as we meet our musical relatives. The tour will continue to raise money for Haiti.
During all that, we will continue to film a documentary about our crazy journey. Part of that will include a trip to Haiti to visit the House of Hope Orphanage, the orphanage for which we raised money.
Our school grades are good, we do our chores, and we are fortunate to be in good health. We spend as much time as possible at the cottage, chilling, playing music, and just being kids. Music is a lot of fun and we enjoy that it makes people smile, but it has to be fun – something we love doing.
Thank you all for being our fans, watching our videos, and sending your encouragement. High five to you all!!!
0 Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights)
Adults tend to complicate things sometimes. Our tongue-in-cheek, fun, message to the NHL is a simple one: save our skulls (SOS) and ban head shots now, that’s it. No different from what adults ask of us at school.
We use music to make this point because, well, being musicians and being kids we hope to set an example for other kids, to inspire them to change the world by getting involved in it and making a positive difference in their own way. Please adults, don’t complicate that.
If you support the SIMPLE idea that THE NHL SHOULD BAN HEADSHOTS, please watch our one-minute video “Boom Boom Out Go the Lights”, like it and share it with others, or complicate it with [add your own baggage here]:
Here is a link to “Boom Boom Out Go the Lights” on YouTube. If you have a YouTube account, click “Like”.
Also, (and more importantly) if you would like to help some of the poorest families in Haiti overcome their plight of poverty, do it through the Kanpe Foundation by clicking the DONATE NOW button below. Your transaction is securely handled through CanadaHelps.org.
When our album comes out later this spring, we will donate 50% of its sales to Haiti.
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0 Skated Through Hockeyville Navan!
On Sunday afternoon, we skated through Hockeyville Navan.
Liam and Jan towed Quinn on our mobile puck and cartoon hockey net. Things got a little crazy, but we love hockey and we love rockin’ an arena with our music, so the two seem to go together!
What do you think?
If you were there, let us know!
Photo: Lyne Proulx
0 Getting READY for Hockeyville (Part II)
In Part I, we showed you the making of our Guitockey Stick. Now, as Hockey Day in Navan approaches, we’re getting together our mobile ice busking rig (MIBR).
In the video below, we show our latest, rudimentary test, mostly rude…. and after this was filmed, we already made some big changes that are REALLY cool. We’re working on a song with the Guitockey stick too. We didn’t do our test with it because the cold kept taking the strings out of tune. We’re working on that too. We look forward to seeing you all in Navan this weekend. Come out and support the Navan Hockeyville bid on Feb 27! Catch us at the game, with our new MIBR…
Once we perfect it… we will make it a Mobile MEGA Busking Rig (MMIBR)! But that’s later…
0 Getting Ready for Hockeyville (Part I) – How to make a Guitockey stick
Watch as Anders Dreup and Shaun Verreault (Wide Mouth Mason) make us Guitockey stick, or Git’aw-kee stick, or is it a Hockitar? You be the judge…
See us play this contraption at Hockeyville in Navan on Feb 27!!!