Minglewood Press Articles


  • Rocket interrupts Kandahar concert - Canadian Press
    By MURRAY BREWSTER The Canadian Press Sat. May 24, 2008

    Matt Minglewood plays to his toughest room yet
  • Minglewood Appears InFocus EastLink and Seaside Television
    Hosted by Jay MacNeil- March 2008
  • Minglewood warms up winter with a 60th birthday bash
    -The Guardian, PEI
    Hundreds of fans come out to enjoy the guest of honour’s performance, as well as great sets by Matt Andersen and Joey Kitson
    By Todd MacLean

  • Have you seen Matt’s hat? -Halifax Herald
    Minglewood’s trademark lid disappears from dressing room
    By ELISSA BARNARD Arts Reporter

  • Order of Canada Dutch Mason -Halifax Herald
    I'm Happy for My Son
  • Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival
    Daily Gleaner | Music
    Fest Adds More Minglewood
  • The Buzz
    By Jane Ledwell
    Living The Legend
  • Canada Rocks - Confederation Centre of the Arts Charlottetown, PE
    Canadian Blues-Rock Legend Matt Minglewood
    to be Featured in 2005 Charlottetown Festival's
    Production CANADA ROCKS ? A Musical Revue
  • Kitchener The Nightlife
    by Jason Schneider
    May, 2005
    Just a Good Ole Boy with a Tune
  • Cape Breton Post
    by Chris Shannon
    Feb, 2005
    Awards Gala the Best Ever
  • Edmonton Sun
    by Mike Ross
    October 04
    The Cape Breton Crusader Returns
  • Saint City News
    by Darell Winwood
    October 04
    Mingling with the Blues
  • St. Albert Gazette
    by Anna Boroweicki
    October 04
    Blues Warrior Hits the Road Again
  • CBC 's National radio show, Saturday Night Blues, awarded Matt the "Great Canadian Blues Award". The award, which was voted on by the listeners, honored Matt for his contribution to the blues.
    A readers poll of "The Twenty Best of Atlantic Canada Albums of All Time" in the Halifax Coast readers placed both 'Drivin' Wheel' and 'Minglewood Red Album' in the top twenty!
  • Banff Crag and Canyon Oct. 19/04
    By Quintin Winks SummitUP staff
    Minglewood bringing The Story to Banff
    Banff Crag and Canyon ? Matt Minglewood represents a thousand Canadian rockers working the bar and club circuits and never really making it to the big, big time..........
  • Blues On Stage -
    Tim Holek, and Blues On Stage

    Surviving With Matt Minglewood
    Matt Minglewood combines southern rock, country, Celtic and blues into each and every performance such as at the recent Cupid's Bluesfest organized by the Canada South Blues Society..........
  • Singin' The East Coast Blues Again - April 24, 2003
    Ottawa Citizen - Norman Provencher

    Singin' The East Coast Blues Again
    After three decades of touring, Cape Breton's Matt Minglewood has plenty of stories about friends, fans and life on the road. Some of them are even printable, writes Norman Provencher...........
  • Doc Minglewood- May 12, 2002
    by Dr. Richard MacKinnon

    Matt Minglewood Receives UCCB Honorary Doctorate Degree
    Canada's legendary blues-rocker Matt Minglewood was presented a honorary doctorate degree on Sunday May 12 at UCCB (Universitey College of Cape Breton) convocation exercises. Matt opened the ceremonies with a passionate version of O Canada. To follow is the presentation speech given by Dr. Richard Mac Kinnon.............
  • What's Goin On!
    by Dave Mihalik

    Rockin'Doctor
    After more than thirty-five years rockin' th blues in the music businesss, northside native Roy Batherson, better known as Glace Bay-dwelling Matt Minglewood, is the centre of attention.....
  • Blues Circles
    Cape Breton Post
    by Ken MacLeod

    Minglewood Acclaimed in Blue Circles
    He may be past 50, but Cape Breton's foremost blues artist has no thoughts of an early retirement just yet ...........
  • Good Ole Boy
    Cape Breton Post
    by Stewart Dodson

    Minglewood, Good Ole Boy, who Values Family and Friends
    To the Editor: After watching the BT New Year's Eve Special on television, I came to the realization that Matt Minglewood is a good ole boy who never sold out the big record companies and moved to Toronto or Los Angeles to pursur his career. ......
  • Honoring Our Talent
    Cape Breton Post
    by Peter Cotter

    Honouring Our Talent - The Issue -Minglewood Tribute. We Suggest. It's Long Overdue This Labour Day Weekend Cape Breton's "Rockin Blues Ambassador" Matt Minglewood, will be honoured in a tribute concert at the Government Wharf in Sydney...........
  • Edmonton Journal
    Edmonton AB
    Interview by Peter North

    Fans Patient During 10-year Recording Break
    Along with Toronto's Downchild Blues Band and Vancouver's Powder Blue, Cape Breton's Matt Minglewood is one of the true veteran survivors of this nation's blues boogie circuit...............
  • ENCORE! Weekly Entertainment
    Grande Prairie
    Article by Bill Laye

    Minglewood Set to Rock Swan City
    Rockin' bluesman Matt Minglewood, coming to Swan City in April, says his most profound musical influence came the night he first saw Elvis Presley on TV...............
  • Written by Jim Cullen
    Sydney Mines,NS
    A Unique Tribute
    Sittin “Behind the Wheel”, trying to convince myself that “Someday I'm Gonna Ride in a Cadillac” .........."
  • Times & Transcript
    Moncton, NB
    Interview by Lynda MacGibbon

    Music Drives Minglewood But there's no place like home for this musician
    "You can call me Matt, you can call me Roy, a Cape Crusader, a good ol boy .........."
  • Times Globe
    Saint John, NB
    Interview by Sandra Davis

    BACK TO BASICS
    Minglewood fans don't want country or straight - ahead rock n'roll. When they buy an album or catch a live performance.................
  • By Martello Tower
    Daily News, Halifax
    What You Don't Know
    Many Nova Scotians don't know it, but Premier John Hamm's spokesman, Rob Batherson, is the nephew of one of Nova Scotia's most famous musicians.............
  • By Charlie A'Court / Entertainment Reporter In Tune
    Truro Daily News
    Entertainment

    Minglewood in driver's seat with release of latest recording
    Twenty-five years after he released his first album with Solar Records, Matt Minglewood is on the road again with his latest CD, Drivin' Wheel. Today, ............
  • Minglewood returns with hard drivin' new CD
    By Stephen Cooke -
    The Halifax Herald
    Travellin' Matt
    It's a three-way tug of war for Halifax's fans of Cape Breton music tonight, with ..........
  • By Stephen Cooke / Entertainment Reporter CONCERT REVIEW
    The Halifax Herald Limited
    Entertainment
    Symphony performs a rhapsody in blues>
    Hey hey, the blues is all right.
    Not only is the blues all right, but as Friday's Symphony Nova Scotia concert proves, you can dress it up and take it anywhere. ..............
  • By Stephen Cooke NIGHTCLUB NOTEBOOK
    The Halifax Herald Limited
    Entertainment
    >Whiz Kids MacIsaac, Minglewood set to fire up the tunes
    TWO OF CAPE BRETON'S most musicians performed Whiz Kids together in the film New Waterford Girls, but .........