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The band consists of leader Don Rooke along with a large cast of Toronto musicians that includes or has included Paul Pasmore, John Sheard, Hugh Marsh, Davide DiRenzo, David Piltch, Jorn Anderson, Michael White, Joey Wright, Joe Phillips, Mike Billard, David Trevis, Monte Horton, Jonathan Goldsmith.
Don Rooke is a musician and composer. He played on the soundtrack to the Academy Award winning film "Ryan". His was nominated for Achievement In Music - Original Score at the March 2013 Canadian Screen Awards for his work on "Still Mine".
The Henrys is a Toronto-based ‘nearly-instrumental’ group that performs as a quartet, or quintet, but records with a larger stable of players. Led by Don Rooke, since 1990, the band’s goal has always been to compose, record and perform original music that has no obvious genre, but draws on a variety of styles in an original, identifiable way.
“Band leader Don Rooke’s vocals come in at just barely a whisper at times with an undeniably inviting melody over a curveball laden orchestra of harmonic twists and turns played on an array of instruments you won’t be finding at the corporate guitar store down the street anytime soon.”
Battling technical problems (USB webcam recording noise), Don Rooke of The Henrys plays karaoke dobro. Instrument by Joseph Yanuziello, Toronto.
Don Rooke is a musician and composer. He played on the soundtrack to the Academy Award winning film "Ryan". His was nominated for Achievement In Music - Original Score at the March 2013 Canadian Screen Awards for his work on "Still Mine".
Feb 29, 2004 · Don Rooke took a journey into an atlas inside his mind, conjured up faraway places he openly admits he knows very little about and constructed a worldly album from the confines of his...
