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Ben Sures

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s Best of the Year lists in 2011, and contained the song "Columbus Sailed Here", in which Sures observes the transformation of third-world countries due to cruise ship tourism. Other notable examples of Sures' style are found on "High School Steps", on which he performs a tribute to
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His side projects include The Death Ballad Love Tellers, a song circle with fellow underground folk singers David P. Smith and Buba Uno, in which the performers challenge themselves to write murder ballads and perform them on stage.
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He spent close to a decade as an itinerant street musician and more than 20 years touring the Canadian coffee house and festival circuit both as a solo headliner and as a sideman for blues musicians such as
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He is the son of Order of Canada-winning ceramic artist Jack Sures and painter and illustrator Deborah Uman-Sures.
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He won the folk category of the 2005 John Lennon Song Competition with "Any Precious Girl
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by reflecting on the life of high school musicians who saw Davies as their idol.
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at age 15 and devoted himself to the study of blues and roots.
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A mostly-self-taught musician, Sures discovered the music of
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CBC Radio
The Irrelevant Show
Robert Johnson
Harp Dog Brown
Rita Chiarelli
Paul Reddick
Now
Ray Davies
the Kinks
"Storytelling songsters double up at Arden | Arts & Entertainment | St. Albert Gazette"
the original



"Speaking to the human condition - Mobile Edition"
the original
"John Lennon Songwriting Contest"
"Sarah Greene's top ten albums | NOW Magazine"
"The Irrelevant Show | CBC Radio"
Categories
1967 births
Living people
Canadian male singers
Canadian folk singers
Canadian blues singers
Canadian comedy musicians
Canadian male songwriters

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