RON LEARY

Here’s a brand-new single (listen on the music page or wherever you prefer to stream music). It’s a song about a couple of kitties who snuck their way into my heart this past winter. 

This is Brando (aka Chonk Dog):

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Weekly gigs are how I've survived as a professional musician these past two decades, here's my latest and I couldn't be more thrilled. Things fire up officially beginning Wednesday March 16th.

Sharing The Dakota Tavern stage with my good friend  Old Kid and his band this St. Paddy's Day, Thursday March 17th. It's one of the finest sounding venues in Toronto and as such I'll be bringing out the full band…

Working up a plan to record a trio album with Dean Drouillard and Adrian Lawryshyn in the spring. We'll hit a cabin for a week on Peele Island and lock in a dozen or so tunes live-off-the-floor.

Here's the current…

Had the pleasure of sitting down (virtually) with Notes From the Third Coast writer/creator Dennis Archambault to chat about border radio, Ontario music and missing Detroit.

Grab a read: 

https://notesfromthethirdcoast.com/2021/10/15/where-the-coastline-narrows-culture-blurs/

Oh and hey, ima very excited to dust off the…

Here's an interview I did with CBC's Chris Ensing on the current state of affairs in regards to local live music.

Grab a listen:

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-106-windsor-mor

I'm well into the song hunting/assembling of the 3rd set of 50 tunes for the Songs about Ontario Playlist which I've been working on over the past few months and well, I realized I never posted the 2nd set of…

For the past week I took over Model D's Instagram page and posted a series on Windsor's live original music scene and then as a wrap the great Detroit songwriter and journalist Mike Galbraith did a piece on it…

I've started up a new research project...mining songs that situate themselves within the Ontario territory.

This will be an ongoing project for the foreseeable future so click follow and stay tuned (if you're not on Spotify see the playlist below…

The lead off track from Tobacco Fields got the video treatment.

It was inspired by the classic City TV show Night Drive and features one of Canada's largest infrastructure developments of the past decade the Herb Gray Parkway right down…

Grab a listen, here's an interview with Guelph's artist-in-residence Jenny Mitchell (Bird City) on CFRU 93.3 FM.

We cover lots of ground over the hour... Windsor-Detroit, my hometown, touring Canada (and the US), creating art during the…

This summer I'm going to be exclusively playing outdoors and possibly in your backyard!

There will be shows in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. A number of dates are already booked but there's still quality dates available. 

If you'd be…