When long-time Scarborough resident Garen Markarian released his three-song EP last year, he managed to get some airtime on 102.1 the Edge, Toronto’s popular cutting edge rock station, not to mention plenty of play on university radio stations.
One of them certainly was the UofT Scarborough Campus radio station where he was a deejay with a weekly one-hour show when he was a student there in neuro-sciences.
The new album from the Scarborough duo of Sheila Carabine and Amanda Walther, otherwise known as Dala, which is slated to hit the stores August 14, features all self-penned tunes.
The former Mary Ward Catholic secondary school students did record a ‘cover’ version of Neil Young’s Ohio (check it out at www.dalagirls.com), but it is earmarked for an upcoming Canadian tribute fundraising album of Neil Young songs (called Borrowed Tunes 2) which is due out Sept. 25.
It will also include that other Scarborough band, the Barenaked Ladies, not to mention other top Canadian acts such as Our Lady Peace, Finger Eleven and Ron Sexsmith.
