Brian Gordon is a Canadian singer/songwriter whose music is beginning to make its way around the globe.

To many, Brian Gordon has just appeared on the scene. In reality, Brian has been writing, recording, and touring his music for almost 20 years, and is just now starting to receive the reward of all his effort.

After being aboard the Barenaked Ladies' "Ships & Dip" cruise in 2008, Brian wrote a "Ladies-esque" song simply called "Ships & Dip" which soon became a fan favourite. Many fans began emailing the cruise organizers asking if Brian would be performing on the boat in 2009. Brian was highlighted as the feature performer at the pre-cruise launch party in Miami in February 2009.

Since then, Brian has begun recording again, having completed a new single called "Follow Me" in the studios of Dave Matheson (of Moxy Fruvous fame).

Fans are anxiously awaiting a new project – and Brian is not going to disappoint. He is has been recording with Juno nominated producer Timothy Abraham (Enter The Haggis, Valery Gore, Peter Katz, Grand Analog, Nine Mile).  A brand new record is forthcoming.

Brian Gordon got his start in music by writing a song called "Promises" for a local church presentation, which soon became the winner of a talent competition, bringing Brian to perform the song live in front of thousands in the stadium of Queen's University. He also performed that same song on the Ontario Place Forum stage, along with a gospel choir. Next, he wrote a song for his high school graduating class, called "Memories of Today". After recording a demo cassette of those two songs (and 3 others), and selling out them much quicker than anticipated, Brian decided to make a go of music.

Brian, along with fellow musician Steve Leitner, joined with other local musicians to form a band that would eventually be known as RISE. Still having some ties to his roots in the church, RISE was a fusion of pseudo-celtic acoustic pop rock, and spiritual overtones - largely songs about searching for meaning, and some about finding it.

After releasing their first CD entitled "becoming" in 1996, Brian Gordon & Jason Bowman (drums) merged with another southern Ontario rock outfit (Lost Coin) members Rick Bailey (guitar) & Jon Hartley (bass). Lost Coin had a harder rock edge than RISE had previously. Brian Gordon remained the primary songwriter, and also co-wrote with Rick Bailey.

As the new RISE outfit, they won first place in an Eclipse Records Bandwarz competition and being placed in track one of the prize compilation CD in 1997. RISE went on to produce 3 more full length CDs. "Stuck" from 1998 was their best selling CD. "Above All The Noise" was released in 2000. "Light Of Day" was released in 2006. The last recording consisted of Brian Gordon, Rick Bailey, Chris Kimmerer (drums/percussion) and Steve Dorrepaal (bass/acoustic guitars).

Over the bands lifespan, they performed hundreds of shows, and toured east to Halifax, and west to Saskatoon in their own private tour bus, performing on Breakfast Television, and appearing in coffee shops, church halls, festivals and college pub stages across the country.

When Brian decided (after years of talking about it) to actually record a solo project, RISE bandmate Rick Bailey helped him record his initial collection of songs. These songs harkened back to the days of his 'pseudo-celtic' roots. "Everywhere's The Sun" was released in November 2008.

Currently, Brian is finishing a new record, and performing gigs around the Toronto area to help support the project.  If you would like to make a donation towards his latest efforts, please click the link below... and THANKS!