Jack Cooper - Guelph, ON Musician

I was going to attempt to blog something about my musical roots a while back, but I never got around to finishing my thoughts. It’s very important for me to document this somehow, so I didn’t really want to write carelessly about the subject and not really capture the essence of why music is [...]

I feel like an idiot for not discovering this sooner. I also feel idiotic in wondering if I am the last person to figure this out, but in case I am not I thought I should share this with other folks who may find themselves on tour or on site somewhere selling their goods.
Here’s [...]

I’ve assembled all my digital recorded music at Bandcamp. Bandcamp is a relatively new platform that allows the artist to stream and sell digital music. Currently, bandcamp doesn’t charge any setup fees and hasn’t yet started taking a percentage of the download sales, although they eventually plan to.

There are some really nice features [...]

So I’m working on three projects now. Four, actually, counting a mini project wrapping up. The mini project is a small collection of songs by a London based singer named Gary Boyle. He is a very nice gentleman who I met this past summer at London’s Home County festival. A friend [...]

Baseball season is almost over!
I’m about to breathe a huge sigh of relief- baseball season is almost finished.  I’m not a sports junkie in general- I have zero to little interest in professional hockey or football, although I do enjoy following basketball from time to time.  I was a horrible athlete growing up.  I was [...]

Eaglewood Folk Festival is a little festival run in Pefferlaw, Ontario (on the south side of Lake Simcoe).  Eaglewood primarily features songwriters, although there are a few additional types of acts appearing each year.  This is the first time I’ve attended Eaglewood in about five years.  I had a couple of different reasons for going. [...]

Like many musicians, I designed the initial pages of my website as a way of providing information about who I am, what I do, who I’ve been seen with, what’s been written about me and what I’ve produced.
I found, like many novice web designers, that keeping my pages current was excrutiatinly difficult. Part of [...]