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From bass player to community leader to filmmaker, Etobicoke’s Murray Foster brings his 20-year dream to the big screen

By Laura DeSilva Etobicoke Guardian Murray Foster’s fictitious band 20 years in the making is now leading a British invasion in Canada – but it took more than a hard day’s night. The former member of Moxy Fruvous, current bass player for Great Big Sea and field director for Etobicoke’s Our Place Initiative can add…

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Music Matters Panel at Brock University

March 19, 2015 Todd Green, Goodman School of Business assistant professor of marketing, who researches corporate social responsibility in the music industry moderated the Music Matters panel at Brock University. Murray Foster joined broadcaster Alan Cross, audio mastering engineer Noah Mintz, and Eric Alper, director of media relations for eOne Music Canada and a well-known music commentator. Watch…

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NOW HEAR THIS: Fortunate Ones bring Bliss to N.S.

By Stephen Cooke The Chronicle Herald Newfoundland duo Fortunate Ones lived up to their name when they scored a last-minute opening slot for Celtic pop veterans the Waterboys at Casino Nova Scotia in 2013. Andrew James O’Brien and Catherine Allan had only been using the name for a couple of months at that point, but…

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From Früvous to film: Murray Foster makes his pitch

By Patrick Langston Ottawa Citizen On Jan. 21, Toronto screenwriter and director Murray Foster – AKA bassist with down-east folk rockers Great Big Sea and, before that, founding member along with Jian Ghomeshi and others of the satiric band Moxy Früvous — pitches his film The Cocksure Lads Movie to CBC’s Dragons’ Den. Foster will…

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The Cocksure Lads Movie opens at Whistler Film Festival

By Linda Barnard Toronto Star A fictitious band 20 years in the making gets the big screen treatment with The Cocksure Lads Movie, written and directed by Great Big Sea’s Murray Foster, formerly of Moxy Früvous. Toronto-based Foster and Früvous bandmate Mike Ford have been writing cheeky British-invasion-style pop songs for years, even working up…

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