Martin Tielli

Martin Tielli (Rheostatics) has signed up for Songs For Food And Shelter, an event that will be posted five days beforehand on the Alec Fraser Jr Productions PR...ODUCER page. Jon Brooks, Jack de Keyzer, Shakey Trill, Maggie Fraser, Rick Fines, Mike Daley, Julian Fauth and many more to announce as we get closer to the broadcast on Sunday, Sept 20th at 7pm Fred Victor is the organization that will collect donations for the charity event to help fight Toronto’s Homelessness. If you have no money due to Covid we understand. Just watch, share and spread the word if you’re so inclined. I’m producing/recording and shooting most of the videos. You can go here and LIKE this page to be notified 20 minutes before we go to air. Thanks for your help. https://www.facebook.com/pg/alecfrasermusic/photos ###fredvictor ###CBC ###SongsForFoodAndShelter

Museum London is open again. Realisms - which includes Martin's painting "Lanark County" alongside Alex Colville and William Kurelek - is on until September 20th. Go see it! Thursday to Sunday 11:00 am to 12:00 pm for seniors (65+) 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm for general public... http://museumlondon.ca//realisms-canadian-art-1850-to-the- See more

On a bright spring afternoon, one hundred years ago today, Torontonians wandered into a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto (today's AGO - Art Gallery ...of Ontario). Inside its three modest galleries hung 121 paintings painted by seven artists, inspired by European expressionism, light and nature. For a quarter, patrons took in looming blue-grey icebergs, smooth and almost glowing; sturdy, solo Jack pines, forests of crisp white birch set against smouldering orange and ochre, and lush green islands appearing on the horizon. Some of the artists were teaching at OCAD, others were war artists, but all were members of the Arts & Letters Club, the centre around which the painters founded one of Canada's most notable collectives, The Group of Seven. Seventy-five years later, the AGO commissioned a different kind of integrated collective, The Rheostatics, to create a series of songs inspired by The Group of 7. The Rheos also staged a live performance at the gallery and released an album of the same name in 1995. While mostly instrumental and more prominently featuring cello and piano throughout, the record does have some vocals by guitarist Martin Tielli (also a noted painter who painted the cover art), and snippits of dialogue between songs, including an interview that drummer Don Kerr did with artist Winchell Price. The result is a beautiful kind of sonic expressionist landscape in itself. Happy 100th Birthday to the Group of 7! To celebrate, why not enjoy the #Rheostatics record on vinyl via our store below: https://store.sixshooterrecords.com//rheostatics-music-ins More info on Go7 via The AGO: https://ago.ca/agoinsider/happy-birthday-times-seven #artonart #paintingmusic #rheospective #TBT

Martin's "Lanark County" painting is on exhibit at Museum London, now through May 3, 2020. "Realisms: Canadian Art, 1850 to the Present" includes painting by Alex Colville and photo by Edward Burtynsky. http://museumlondon.ca//realisms-canadian-art-1850-to-the-