Work progresses on the fourth Monarch Trail album, hopefully due some time later in 2023, but meanwhile I have added four of the Ken Baird albums to the Monarch Trail Bandcamp page. https://monarchtrail.bandcamp.com/ They are: August, from 1996 Fields, from 1998 Orion, from 2000 Martin Road, from 2003 I’ll add the fifth one (Further Out…
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December 19th, 2021
It’s been ages since I did an update here! Most activity has been with Monarch Trail, www.monarchtrail.com and on our facebook www.facebook.com/monarchtrailmusic (which is updated much more often than the website is) and bandcamp site is at https://monarchtrail.bandcamp.com/ If you would like any of the five Ken Baird CD’s, you can still buy/obtain them through…
December 13th 2018
Some airplay today on Jan Bracke’s “Epics for All Time” radio show from The Netherlands! I’m happy to say it’s certainly the title track from that album (Further Out), as the show features longer tracks of ten minutes or more. Big thanks to Jan Bracke! A podcast will follow in a few days and I’ll…
November 16th, 2018
Some great news this week for my band Monarch Trail; Amazingly we made it on to Epics for All Time’s “top 25 of all time”. This is the 2018 version of the list, which is a “listener’s choice” kind of list. It’s lovely to be a part of it! Our song, “Sand” made number 23!…
Kinesis sale!
May 30th, 2018 Larry at Kinesis records has been a good friend to me and my music over the years–I think it’s been 20 years now, yes it has! In honour of that, and also that he is retiring soon, we’re doing a sale on all of the Ken Baird albums as long as supply…
September 19th, 2017
Well, finally some cool airplay again! Nice to see a resurgence of interest in the solo stuff since the lanch of the Monarch Trail project, which is still doing very well for us! Two broadcasts and podcasts coming up soon. The first one features the “Orion” album from 2000, and the other features a tune…
December 31st 2016
Hi everyone, this is copied from the Monarch Trail website www.monarchtrail.com December 31st, 2016 For our year end post, I’m happy to report that the album is 99 percent finished, so the release date has been moved to February 2017. I really wanted to get it done for 2016, but final mix, mastering and artwork…
February 8th, 2016
Wow, we got some great airplay on David Layton’s Sound Chaser podcast last week! To be one of the two Canadian keyboard players on this show is a great honour–the other is none other than Jim Gilmour of Saga—a band that I’ve enjoyed for years (just saw them perform the other night, actually). Please see…
Sept 28th 2014 update
Hi everyone, Not a lot of new news this month, although I have noticed we have some new sales of “Martin Road” in Europe which I’m obviously pretty happy about! Also I’m doing lots of writing for the second Monarch Trail album and generally enjoying nice warmer-than-usual weather here in Ontario–fall colours are getting started!…
July 1st 2014 update
Hello everyone, and to locals, Happy Canada Day! I’ve been busy with initial promotion of the Monarch Trail band project www.monarchtrail.com and working on writing for the next Monarch Trail album, but I said I’m still going to update this site and I meant it, even if I missed doing a June update (sorry about…