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Burlington and Tebey

Tebey Ottoh: That changes this weekend when Tebey returns to Burlington to perform for the first time at the Sound of Music Festival. "This is a big one," Tebey says about the show he and his band will play at 8 p.m, according to Hamilton Spectator. Saturday on the OLG Stage in Spencer Smith Park. "It really coming home. So it hard to believe that he never played a major show in Burlington, the city in which he was raised, played high school football and got his start in music. I've never played in Burlington before. "All the people I grew up with are in Burlington," he says on the phone from Nashville. "I went to high school there. Tebey has also found success writing songs for other people. And a lot of people I grew up with have never seen me play." Tebey — his full name is Tebey Ottoh — is currently riding high on the Canadian country charts with a song called "When the Buzz Wears Off." It the latest in a string of radio hits he had in the past three years, including a countrified version of Swedish DJ Avicii "Wake Me Up," which reached No. 5. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.