Frequent CM contributor Kristian Partington recently travelled south of the border to catch a show by the new-look Three Days Grace, one of Canada’s most revered mainstream rock acts and close childhood friends to Partington. Here’s his story!

In a sparse dressing room backstage at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, New York, I stood beside a cooler rammed with ice and American beer talking with a close circle of friends about what most of us had just witnessed for the first time: the latest transformation in the evolution of Three Days Grace.

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Canadian Musician magazine and Music Books Plus will be exhibiting at the Folk Alliance International Conference this Thursday to Saturday (Feb. 21-23) from 3-6 p.m. At table 10 we will be giving out complimentary issues of Canadian Musician magazine and there be special discounts on select titles from Music Books Plus.

The Folk Alliance International Conference will be held at the Delta Chelsea Hotel in Toronto from Wednesday, Feb. 20 to Sunday, Feb. 24. For more information, go to www.folkalliance.org.