{"id":71004,"date":"2021-05-05T09:29:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=71004"},"modified":"2021-05-05T09:29:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:29:08","slug":"scoop-toronto-musician-makes-last-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/05\/05\/scoop-toronto-musician-makes-last-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Toronto Musician Makes His Last Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71006\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/Brentnol_McPherson-funeral.jpg\" alt=\"Brentnol_McPherson-funeral\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Going out with a bang has taken on a whole new meaning at a funeral for Toronto&#8217;s Brentnol McPherson \u2014 aka Bonny Brent or just \u201cCabbage\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Guyanese-Canadian musician played his last beat at his funeral, live-streamed for friends and family at the Covenant Funeral Home in Scarborough last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Surrounded by flowers, McPherson could be seen in a seated position in front of for drum set wearing a bright yellow jacket. Om the drum set was his name and dates &#8220;Bonny Brent, 1952 \u2013 2021.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t9L2PMiMsmM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=4&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u201cToday you are here exclusively at Covenant Funeral Home for the visitation for the late great Brentnol McPherson,\u201d the director Luann Jones announced while sitting beside him. \u201cToday we wanted to do something a little bit different [\u2026] our first staged visitation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe this hasn&#8217;t been done in Canada yet, so again, we&#8217;ve been blazing the trail, making history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Weekend at Bernie\u2019s<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This appears to be the first example of extreme embalming of a musician in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Extreme embalming has become popular in places like Puerto Rico and New Orleans since 2014. The trend was started by boxer Christopher Rivera who was posed at his funeral standing in the corner of a ring.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily\u00a0\u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bowtie.mailbutler.io\/tracking\/hit\/583e6ce0-dfd0-48be-8a33-61256b3c58e3\/a01723d1-1d1d-44ee-9d0c-779ed93a798c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going out with a bang has taken on a whole new meaning at a funeral for Toronto&#8217;s Brentnol McPherson \u2014 aka Bonny Brent or just \u201cCabbage\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":71006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38476,39,45,63],"tags":[39660],"yst_prominent_words":[7070,35636,15503,11829,12213,11079,9962],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/Brentnol_McPherson-funeral.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-ite","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71007,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71004\/revisions\/71007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71004"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=71004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}