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Members of Calgary's music community were paying tribute this week to a longtime promoter, record label owner and manager who helped steer the careers of some of the province's biggest stars.
Neil MacGonigill worked with Jann Arden, k.d. lang, Ian Tyson and Billy Cowsill, among others. He died on Friday at the age of 77.
. . . He met Billy Cowsill in the mid-1970s, a decade after the singer led the family band The Cowsills to global fame, and helped guide his solo career. He eventually brought Cowsill to Calgary where he was an active musician until he died in 2006.
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MacGonigill worked with other Alberta artists over the years, including Beautiful Joe, The Co-Dependents with Cowsill, Joe Nolan, . . .
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(Tim) Leacock's act, The Burners, won a battle-of-the-bands contest put on by Calgary's KIK FM in the mid-1980s. Allison Brock, who is the host of Wide Cut Country on CKUA, was music director at the time and suggested the band meet with MacGonigill, who had already managed Diamond Joe White and Tyson by that point. MacGonigill hooked the band up with Cowsill, who produced their 1988 debut album Low Tech/High Torque. When Cowsill moved to Calgary, Leacock joined him in the band The Co-Dependents. MacGonigill managed the band and landed them a residency at the Mecca Cafe. The Co-Dependents recorded two live albums at the venue that were released on MacGonigill's indie label, Indelible Music.
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