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Songs & Stories: An Evening with Steve Goldberger

A special night of music and memoir

Join us to celebrate the launch of Steve's new book, In a Life: A Memoir Peppered with Stories of a Life in Music and Bum Ticker Adventures.

Enjoy an intimate evening of storytelling and songs as Steve shares memories from his journey and performs a special live mini-concert.

About the Book: 

NOTL resident Steve Goldberger has been a working musician and recording artist for fifty-plus years. In his book In a Life: A Memoir Peppered with Stories of a Life in Music and Bum Ticker Adventures, Steve shares his personal stories from being in a country rock and bluegrass band called Black Creek in the 1970s and ’80s to playing and working with all kinds of roots-style musicians, both Canadian and international, in the Toronto and Niagara region. He also reflects on his Jewish roots and recounts his experiences working in his family’s business and coping with several health issues.

Scattered throughout his stories are those from some of his musician friends, including such Canadian award-winning and successful musicians as Bernie LaBarge, Graham Lear, Wendell Ferguson, Jim Casson, Penner MacKay, and so on. Steve was even blogging before blogging was a thing. Back in 1998, after being diagnosed with an enlarged aorta that needed to be replaced, he started the blog The Bum Ticker to chronicle his experience with open-heart surgery, receiving responses from people all over the world. Some of the blog’s humorous and scary excerpts are included in this book.

Music, friendships, dogs, love, sadness, death, humour, joy, and philosophical outlooks—In a Life has it all.

About the Author: 

Since the early 1970s, Steve Goldberger has been a bandleader, songwriter, and freelance bass player and vocalist. He has received several musical awards, including 1975 Genie Award for Best Original Score with Black Creek; Blues Band of the Year in 2008 and 2009 and Entertainer of the Year in 2010 at the Niagara Music Awards with the Niagara Rhythm Section; and Producer, Songwriter, and Country Artist of the Year in 2015 at the Niagara Music Awards for his album Cosmic Cowboy. Currently, Steve enjoys playing in his various bands and recording music in his own recording studio, Shed Studio. He lives in Toronto a few days a week, and the rest of the time in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, with his wife, Dory, and their two dogs, Spike and Sadie.

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