Gregory Patrick McLaughlin
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada | Established. Jan 01, 1997
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"There is something special happening in the Great Canadian North and his name is Gregory Patrick McLaughlin... (he) has pledged to help make known the thriving arts community in Canada’s Arctic by making a major contribution to the music industry. He has some great songs to help him with his endeavor such as the song ‘Heady Hollow’ which has some remarkable melody sections on the vocal, which are very reminiscent of early Simon and Garfunkel. If you’re looking for an artist with vision and talent, give Gregory Patrick McLaughlin a listen."
-Darryl Salach of www.targetaudiencemagazine.com, Summer issue 2008 - Target Audience Magazine,
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Gregory Patrick McLaughlin is a songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, who has been writing and performing music for 17 years.
Gregory started his musical career in Ottawa, fronting heavy metal band
Diamond Back for 7 years while building up his technical prowess as a
guitar player and vocalist.
The Great White North called his
name, and in 2005 Gregory relocated to Iqaluit, Nunavut; Canada's newest
and most remote capital city. While in Iqaluit, Gregory started
recording his own music and experimenting with electronic instruments.
In 2008, he would go on to form Coureurs de Bois, a heavy blues duo who
performed at the Alianait Arts Festival and would eventually open for
Canadian rock idols The Trews. Gregory also performed at the Olympic
Torch Relay that year, and contributed a song to a compilation record
that was featured at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
In
early 2010, Gregory worked as producer for the Halifax-based thrash
metal band Uncooperative Death on their debut record. The collaboration
resulted in the band being nominated for an East Coast Music Award for
Best Loud Album.
Later that year, he relocated to the Northwest Territories, where he now resides.
In 2013, Gregory join the soul-revival group The Trade Offs as their
lead guitarist, performing at the 2013 Folk On The Rocks festival in
Yellowknife, to much acclaim. In 2013, he also performed with
Yellowknife band Erebus & Terror at the 2013 NWT Pride Festival.
Gregory Patrick McLaughlin continues to perform and record as a solo
artist, opening for the Maple Blues Award winner Harry Manx (www.harrymanx.com) in 2013, and in early 2014 opened for Canadian folk troubadour Craig Cardiff (www.craigcardiff.com) in Yellowknife. Gregory has also contributed music to the APTN television series Dene: A Journey (http://aptn.ca/deneajourney/), whose second season will air in 2015.
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