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Brendan McLeod

Brendan McLeod performing in June of 2009 at Cafe Deux Soleils
Born 1979
Ontario
Occupation spoken word artist, musician, novelist, poet
Nationality Canadian
[Brendan McLeod Official website]

Brendan McLeod is a Canadian spoken word artist, musician and novelist. His work often deals with the exploration of social and political commentary, family histrionics, surreal love poems, obscure adventure stories, and powerful personal stories.

As a spoken word artist and slam poet, he has earned the honours of Canadian SLAM poetry champion (2004), Vancouver SLAM poetry champion (2005), and finished second at the 2005 World SLAM championships, held in Holland. In 2006 McLeod was winner of the Three-Day Novel Contest and consequently his first novel, The Convictions of Leonard McKinley was published by Arsenal Pulp Press. The novel has been called both "creepy but...good"[1] and a work of "buoyant irony"[2].

McLeod is also a member of The Fugitives, a "wildly talented spoken-word-cranked"[3] Vancouver-based band also including Adrian Glynn, Steven Charles and Barbara Adler. Notable former members of The Fugitives include C.R. Avery and Mark Berube. The group has been classified under many guises including slam folk, folk hop[4], and spoken word cabaret.

References

  1. ^ So Misguided, Book Review: The Convictions of Leonard McKinley, Sunday, September 02, 2007 http://www.somisguided.com/weblog/book-review-the-convictions-of-leonard-mckinley/
  2. ^ Globe & Mail, "Why must I be a teenager in lust?", JIM BARTLEY, August 4, 2007 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070804.BKBART04/TPStory/Entertainment/Books
  3. ^ The Georgia Straight, "Dance All-Stars", Janet Smith, March 1, 2007 http://www.straight.com/article-72987/dance-all-stars
  4. ^ The Omega, Thompson Rivers University's Independent Student Newspaper, "Fugitives rock Alumni Theatre", Jessica Scharien, 02/04/09 http://www.theomega.ca/article/17678

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Brendan McLeod is a spoken word artist and musician based out of Vancouver. He is the winner of the National Individual Final at the 2004 Canadian SpokenWordlympics, awarded to the top SLAM poet in Canada. In 2005, he was Vancouver's Grand SLAM Champion. He has toured extensively in North America and Europe as both a solo performer and member of the spoken word/music troupe The Fugitives. He finished second in the world at Holland's Word Slampionship in June 2005. He received his MA in Philosophy in 2001. Excerpts from his first novel were published in Sophia. As a musician he led Ontario's seven piece jazz/folk/funk group Eden Express, the Vancouver based acoustic trio Bernie, and currently is a member of the spoken word/music troupe, The Fugitives, with Barbara Adler, CR Avery, and Mark Berube.












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