Formed in 1996 in frosty Thunder Bay, Ontario, BURT NEILSON BAND is a four-piece group simply in love with music. Consisting of bass, drums, guitar, keyboards and vocals, BNB thrives on live performances filled with creativity and spontaneity. The band, in their nine year career, have toured Canada coast to coast eighteen times, played over eight hundred shows, had four successful independent releases, and secured an army of loyal and devoted fans.With an original lineup of seven, BNB have refined their sound over the years to be more focused, clean and in tune with the moment. Mike Filipowitsch (guitar/vocals), Jeff Heisholt (keyboards/vocals), Jeremy Little (bass/vocals) and Gavin Maguire (drums/vocals) do their best to create music from the heart, drawing heavily from their backgrounds of rock n roll, funk, country and life.The road has been good to Burt Neilson Band. Theyve been lucky enough to play across Canada and the USA, logging countless hours of van time and stage experience. From their beginnings in Northern Ontario, the band quickly branched out to spread their music to as many people as possible. One cross country tour suddenly turned into a dozen and before they knew it, BNB found themselves veterans of the highway and leaders of a new resurgence of independent Canadian touring bands. Consistently selling out rooms across the country and basically living on the road became the norm for Burt Neilson. So in 2002 the band decided to take a year off, settle down and get ready for another long stretch of writing, performing and recording. The band emerged from hibernation in early 2003 and are back at it again in full force, having recently received the COCA 2003 Indie Band of the Year award.Burt Neilson Band first entered the recording studio in 1997. Although throughout their years they have encouraged the taping and trading of their live shows, 1998 saw the release of the self-titled Burt Neilson Band. Recorded in Thunder Bay, the CD featured 10 of the bands first compositions and went on to sell out of many pressings. BNB followed that with 2000s Orange Shag Carpet, which featured more mature writing and showcased the musical growth of the band. 2001 brought the release of Five Alive, a live CD recorded while on tour in Ontario that March. It featured one song from each previous release as well as six new originals and clocked in at 74 minutes. The band released their fourth CD, By the Door in February 2004, and are currently on the road promoting it as well as preparing new material for their next release.In the nine years that Burt Neilson Band has been playing together, the band is currently more excited to be doing what they do than ever before. Theyve rediscovered themselves and look forward to a busy, prosperous and fun-filled year as well as many more years to come.
BNB 10th Anniversary show!
The Opera House, Toronto, ON
November 10th, 2006
Set 2 - Video Links
Distraction
Fresco Lopez
Revolution Blues - Fresco
Stuck Inside
Down with the Sound
Glad Tidings
Whipping Post
Martian
Stop 28
