Brookfield North

Last year Fredrick, Caroline, and Sue Passmore spent a lot of time secretly putting together a compilation of songs that I sang on three of our records. On my birthday, November 16 (2025), I could tell by the looks on…

We took a break and went into the woods last week so had to delay ‘The River’ until this week. If you want to catch up you can find our weekly posts here: https://brookfieldnorth.ca/discography-poems
 

Just updated our Discography/Poems page with Week Twenty-Eight. If you'd like to get caught up, check out https://brookfieldnorth.ca/discography-poems

Just updated our Discography/Poems page with our twelfth entry. This weeks is a song about a neighbour Jack and his wife Lorraine. Check it out… https://brookfieldnorth.ca/discography-poems/blog/7696110/week-twelve-never-far-2004

If you'd like to catch up on all the updates, you can find them…

As the founding member of the band Brookfield North, (formerly Brookfield), I thought it would be a fun project to visit our discography and selected poetry from my books.

Once a week, I’ll post one song and one poem from…

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Happy to announce our new album, LEAVE THIS BLUE is now available. We have remixed and mastered some of our previously released songs and added some new ones. CD's are available.

All songs written by Fredrick…

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We are starting to get excited for the release of our next album. We have a few more songs to clean up and we'll be ready to go. 
In the meantime, here is another we'll be adding…

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Relationships in fiction can be as powerful and tragic as those in real life — take Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky, whose sad tale of mistrust and rejection still resonates with readers today. The pair are the…

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Nestled in a meadow at the foot of the Laurentian Mountains in rural Quebec, stands an old farmhouse. On our holidays we would pass this empty home with its Nine Empty Rooms and wonder: who lived…

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There are so many ways to stop fake news. Consider the source and the author, and build critical-thinking skills.

With our song, Leave This Blue, we’re just asking for all of us to do due diligence…

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Ordinary Day is about finding your way back from heartache to true love. It celebrates the distance between a couple, where love survives without binding. It defines commitment, attraction and love without failure. 

Joy Brooks -…

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It's been a minute… well lots of minutes. We took a little break but now we are back on track and writing and working in the studio again. 

My Little Boat is a true story of…

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It's been a long time coming, but we have finally completed a 13 song album released on December 15th. We have included a few songs that we had released over the last year because we felt…

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John Francis Anthony “Jaco” Pastorius III was a bassist, composer and producer. He was known for his work with Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Weather Report, and Joni Mitchell among others. 
I wrote…

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This is a healing song for my elementary school friends who still carry the weight of those days.

Fredrick Brooks - Vocals / Acoustic Guitar 
Joy Brooks - Harmonies 
Katherine Brooks - Harmonies 
Chris Pezzarello -…

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After watching interviews with spouses of career military members, one interview inspired me to write the song Elijah, about the partner of a soldier. Each night, after the children went to bed, she left a light…

It feels good to be releasing old and new songs as we slowly come out of Covid (hopefully). We waited so long to get our music out there and then came the pandemic and slowed us to a crawl. Working…

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“Fill the silence with your music. Fill it today to tell our story. Tell the truth about the war on your social networks, on TV, support us in any way you can any, but not silence.…

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Here we are at the end of March and after having a few beautiful Spring type days, we are back into the cold. Re-upping our Winter song. Soon we will have light on our faces.

Aside…

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Joy Brooks - Vocals  
Fredrick Brooks - Acoustic Guitar 
Jeff Brackett - Electric Guitar 
Chris Pezzarello - Drums 

Guests: 
Caroline Marie Brooks- Harmonies 
Katherine McKenzie - Harmonies 
Robbie Grunwald - Keyboards/Bass 
Joseph Shabason - Flute 

Recorded…

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Joy Brooks - Vocals  
Fredrick Brooks - Acoustic Guitar  
Jeff Brackett - Electric Guitar  
Chris Pezzarello - Drums  

Guests:  
Caroline Marie Brooks- Harmonies  
Katherine McKenzie - Harmonies  
Bryden Baird - Horns  
Drew Jurecka - Strings  
Robbie…

All those hours in the studio here at home and in Robbie Grunwald's RavenTape Music Room are paying off. We look forward to releasing a monthly track.

Our first will be 'For The Dream You Are'. It'll be…

In honour of the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference COP26 (Conference of the Parties).

Fredrick wrote this song many years ago when our family was young and we worried about their future. It rings louder every year.

Whole Earth 

Oh…

You may have noticed that we are in the process of changing our name by adding the word 'North' to Brookfield. Not only is it not being used by any other bands, but it gives us that Canadian touch. 

The…