Bryan Ruckstuhl

While playing guitar and singing in bands in the late 90s, Bryan Ruckstuhl landed a job booking live entertainment at the Elbow Room, a tiny but trendy Ottawa venue that became a launching pad for some of the city's top musicians.

In 2001, Ruckstuhl helped open a new music venue in Canada's capital, Cafe Dekcuf, named after one of his songs. Ruckstuhl himself designed the sign that still hangs on the building today, even though he has since left the venue.

Ruckstuhl was then hired by LiVE 88.5 FM, a new alternative rock station, in 2006 to launch the LiVE 88.5 Big Money Shot, a multi-million dollar talent development program for local artists. He also continued to write songs, but not release them. Three years later, Ruckstuhl got married, the same year he left LiVE 88.5 to pursue his dream of opening a small, private recording studio, Studio 169.

In 2013 Ruckstuhl, who is adopted, became a father. Having grown up without any biological family, this meant the world to him. It also made him start to write/record more.. a lot more. These are some of the songs he's been writing along the way.

Bryan Ruckstuhl’s tracks

• Could Have Beens - Bryan Ruckstuhl (feat. Olenka Reshitnyk) by Bryan Ruckstuhl
• Times Change - Bryan Ruckstuhl by Bryan Ruckstuhl
• The Proposal (say goodbye) - Bryan Ruckstuhl by Bryan Ruckstuhl