It's just another ordinary day for Patrick Watson

It's Patrick Watson's week. The popular singer/composer/pianist picked up two Felix Awards (the Quebec equivalent of a Juno Award) at the star-stacked Montreal Gala on November 1 for English Album of the Year (for 2009's Wooden Arms) and Arranger of the Year, this coming off of a Montreal Jazz Festival concert in early July that saw the wily and woolly Watson perform in front of more than 100,000 of his newest best friends, a dream come true for the Montreal native. So now it's time to give a little something back...

On November 17, his label Secret City Records (www.secretcityrecords.com) will re-launch his very first album, Just Another Ordinary Day, which was released in 2003 but only in very limited quantities. Just Another Ordinary Day was a shot across the bow of left-of-center pop music connoisseurs, and an immediate indication that Watson - with the considerable assistance of bandmates Simon Angell, Robbie Kuster and Mishka Stein - was several cuts above the crowd. (Also on November 17, Secret City will release a vinyl version of Wooden Arms.)

A chance to catch Watson in his natural environment comes three times in three disparate locales before the end of the year is upon us: At the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver on December 10, at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto on December 12, and at the Metropolis in Montreal on December 16.

(Jamie O'Meara)

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