Hey Folks,

Today marks the release of the physical CD Single of our new single, Highway Of Heroes. You can pick it up wherever you buy music. Net proceeds from each sale will go to the Canadian Hero Fund.

To find out more or to donate to the Canadian Hero Fund, please visit www.herofund.ca or send an email to info@herofund.ca

Hey Everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that the Song For Africa Rwanda: Rises Up! album is now in stores and available on iTunes. The track I contributed to the album is an instrumental version of our song Yearning. Using samples recorded by SFA in Rwanda last fall, Jeff Heisholt and I created a rhythm track that went along with an acoustic arrangement that I had for Yearning. Since it is technically collaboration between Rwandan musicians and myself and it is billed as John-Angus MacDonald featuring ITORERO, pretty cool eh? This is a really exciting project that I really believe in and it features all kinds of great music by a bunch of cool Canadian artists. I recommend checking it out.


Peace,
JA

At 11:38 last night Jack Syperek became the proud papa of healthy and beautiful 8lb.1oz baby boy. Missus Sippy is doing great, everyone is healthy and happy. However, his new paternal duties will prevent Jack from being able to join us onstage for the Burlington Sound of Music Festival tomorrow night. Big Ben Richardson, of Grady fame, has offered to step up and fill these rather large bass playin' boots. It promises to be a fun and impromptu night of music.

Congratulations again to Jack and Sarah!! See the rest of you tomorrow night.

JA

Hey Everyone,

Just wanted to send out a big thank you to all our fans for the support we've received for our song "Highway Of Heroes". First day sales at iTunes went very well and we even hit #3 on the Rock charts, so thanks to everyone who bought the single! We wanted to especially thank Todd and April Broennle from Thunder Bay who were kind enough to match the net proceeds from the sales on Tuesday. We really appreciate your generosity and encourage all our fans to check out the Canadian Hero Fund at (www.herofund.ca) and make a donation.

To all the fans who've taken the time to email us and share their stories, we are grateful for your kind words and really happy this song has touched so many people.

The Trews

The wait is finally over, our brand new single, Highway Of Heroes is officially out today. You can purchase it world-wide exclusively via iTunes.

This song was co-written and co-produced by The Trews and Gordie Johnson and was inspired by the 2006 death of Captain Nichola Goddard from The Trews' hometown of Antigonish, NS, who returned from duty along Canada's Highway of Heroes, the section of the MacDonald-Cartier freeway named to honour those who have sacrificed all in service of country.

To find out more or to donate to the Canadian Hero Fund, please visit www.herofund.ca or send an email to info@herofund.ca