The West End Phoenix , a monthly community newspaper for Toronto’s West End which launched in October 2017, will be holding a Phoenix Rising concert fundraiser on Thursday, March 29th at The Great Hall on Queen Street in Toronto, Ontario. Alex Lifeson is among the scheduled guests who will be performing during the concert. According to the announcement, and in additional to Lifeson performing, the concert will feature Rheostatics, Whitehorse, Nasim Asgari and Special Guests. The event will be hosted by Tom Wilson (Lee Harvey Osmond). For ticket information, please visit this LINK . With thanks to Ed from RushIsABand for sharing the news.

Bill Bruford, the original drummer of Yes , recently released a new book titled Uncharted: Creativity and the Expert Drummer . Amazon's synopsis of the book: What do expert drummers do? Why do they do it? Is there anything creative about it? If so, how might that creativity inform their practice and that of others in related artistic spheres? Applying ideas from cultural psychology to findings from research into the creative behaviors of a specific subset of popular music instrumentalists, Bill Bruford demonstrates the ways in which expert drummers experience creativity in performance and offers fresh insights into in-the-moment interactional processes in music. An expert practitioner himself, Dr. Bruford draws on a cohort of internationally renowned, peak-career professionals and his own experience to guide the reader through the many dimensions of creativity in drummer performance. Fellow retired drummer Neil Peart penned a short review of the book for the University of Michigan