Echoes Across the Border: Laurel Canyon and the Northern Connection

In collaboration with the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music, the National Music Centre brings notable speakers to Calgary to explore the cultural synergies between Canadian and American music.

Echoes Across the Border: Laurel Canyon and the Northern Connection brings together industry leaders to discuss how cross-border Canadian-U.S. influences have shaped generations of artists, with a special focus on the ’60s and ’70s Laurel Canyon era, where songwriting visionaries like Joni Mitchell and Neil Young made their mark at home and beyond.

The summit includes a carefully curated lineup of speakers from Canada and the U.S., including Rob Bowman, a Canadian Grammy Award-winning musicologist, known as York University’s “rock ‘n’ roll professor”; Nicholas Jennings, one of Canada’s most respected music journalists and finest music historians; Judith Klassen, an ethnomusicologist and Curator, Music and Performing Arts with the Canadian Museum of History; Larry LeBlanc, a leading music journalist awarded for his impact on the Canadian music industry; Eileen Chapman, Director of the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University in New Jersey, who was responsible for bringing the collection to the University; and Robert Santelli, a Grammy Award-winning music historian, producer, and educator, who is the Executive Director of the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music.

Echoes Across the Border will also include a concert on October 4. As the sun sets on day one, join us for an evening celebration of the era’s most memorable music featuring Laurel Canyon Legacy.

The next day, come back to Studio Bell for a matinee screening of Laurel Canyon. The 2020 documentary gives an up-close look at the lives of the musicians who inhabited Laurel Canyon.

The music summit and film screening are free with registration.
Tickets for the concert at $35.