The name "DOS CABALLEROS" -- two gentlemen, two horsemen, something like that.
Originally used by Jack McDonald of Brantford on CDs of his live music, played with Michael McGraw.
Jack's brother Hugh, of Niagara Falls, started this site for Jack,
but soon started posting his own music,so maybe it should be TRES CABALLEROS—
but once you start a site, you have to stick with the name.
Jack McDonald has been playing violin since childhood.
For about twenty years he has been playing on the streets of Brantford,
and now has a steady engagement at the Farmer's Market, and a few other places.
He plays his own compositions, some classical and popular,
but all with a sense of freedom in the rhythm and melodies.
For years Michael McGraw has been playing various percussion instruments along with Jack.
Jack and Michael have produced cassettes and CDs for friends and acquaintances.
Jack played in Joe Istok's group,
"Niagara Strings" for years and was the maestro of the orchestra.
Hugh McDonald has been playing flute for decades.
He took lessons from Mr. Hoar in Niagara Falls.
He learned guitar on his own, and took a few years of piano and theory from Mrs. Stead.
In the late 1970s he played music in Halifax, mostly at Gingers and at Odin's Eye,
and also busking. For a brief while in 1978 he played in Montreal, In the 1990s and 2000s he played with Niagara Strings and the Italian-Canadian Heritage Marching Band, and 2008 starting wri …
The name "DOS CABALLEROS" -- two gentlemen, two horsemen, something like that.
Originally used by Jack McDonald of Brantford on CDs of his live music, played with Michael McGraw.
Jack's brother Hugh, of Niagara Falls, started this site for Jack,
but soon started posting his own music,so maybe it should be TRES CABALLEROS—
but once you start a site, you have to stick with the name.
Jack McDonald has been playing violin since childhood.
For about twenty years he has been playing on the streets of Brantford,
and now has a steady engagement at the Farmer's Market, and a few other places.
He plays his own compositions, some classical and popular,
but all with a sense of freedom in the rhythm and melodies.
For years Michael McGraw has been playing various percussion instruments along with Jack.
Jack and Michael have produced cassettes and CDs for friends and acquaintances.
Jack played in Joe Istok's group,
"Niagara Strings" for years and was the maestro of the orchestra.
Hugh McDonald has been playing flute for decades.
He took lessons from Mr. Hoar in Niagara Falls.
He learned guitar on his own, and took a few years of piano and theory from Mrs. Stead.
In the late 1970s he played music in Halifax, mostly at Gingers and at Odin's Eye,
and also busking. For a brief while in 1978 he played in Montreal, In the 1990s and 2000s he played with Niagara Strings and the Italian-Canadian Heritage Marching Band, and 2008 starting writing and performing, and has a webstite: www.hyoomik.com
There is now a site specifically for Hugh McDonald's music: http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/bands/hyoomik
Beethoven, Louis Armstrong, songbirds, Stephen Grapelli, traditional jigs and reels, William McGonagall, (world's worst poet), Bop Tillon, crickets, cicadas, and howling dogs, Hermanus Contractus (Herman the Cripple), Jethro Tull, John Lee Hooker, Jon Hendricks, Stephen Foster
