[mplpost] GIGS: ON - HUGHSroom Jan 29-Feb 2
Second Avenue
info@secondavenue.ca
Mon Jan 28 17:08:50 2002
Hi,
Here is what's happening at Hugh's Room this week.
Tue Jan 29 - Open Stage w/ host Trevor Mills
8:00pm, no cover
Wed Jan 30 - Ron Hynes
8:30pm, $12adv/$15 w/ special appearance by Nancy White
Thu Jan 31 - Tannis Slimmon CD Release - "Oak Lake"
8:30pm, $10 w/ Andy Maize & Josh Finlayson (The SkyDiggers)
Dave Clark (Rheostatics), Lewis Melville,
Rebecca Campbell & more!
Fri Feb 1 - Eve Goldberg, Trevor Mills, Evalyn Parry
8:30pm, $10
Sat Feb 2 - Wendell Ferguson
8:30pm, $10adv/$12
Hope to see you there!
Lisa Weitz
<http://www.hughsroom.com>
416-531-6604 / <mailto:tickets@hughsroom.com>
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Tue Jan 29 - Open Stage w/ host Trevor Mills
8:00pm, no cover <http://www.hughsroom.com/zopenstage.html>
weekly
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Wed Jan 30 - Ron Hynes w/ special guest Nancy White
8:30pm, $12adv/$15
For those of you who have heard him play enough said. For those of you
that have not yet had the pleasure, Newfoundland born & raised Ron
Hynes is a singer/songwriter who has written songs that have been
covered (Sonny's Dream for one) by Valdy, Susan Aglukark, Mary Black,
Emmylou Harris, Murray Maclaughlin, The Irish Descendants, Prairie
Oyster, John McDermott, and many more. He is a 5x Peoples Choice
winner, 3x East Coast Music Award winner, and a Juno and CCMA award
nominee.
Ron began his career playing the coffeehouse circuit through
the Maritimes and Ontario, and was a founding member of the Wonderful
Grand Band, a musical comedy show featuring a six-piece
traditional/folk/rock band together with various members of Codco.
The group produced 2 albums of original work, 41 half hour TV shows
for the CBC plus specials, and toured the country nonstop during its
six year history...
Check out <http://ron.hynes.net/> for more information about Ron and
real audio clips.
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Nancy White
Canada's Queen of the topical song, Nancy White, is a kind of
anglo-chanteuse whose combination of sweetness and edge made her
the darling of CBC radio freaks during her years writing songs for
"Sunday Morning".
She’s been described as “a combination of Maritimes roots, festive
spirit and irrepressible humour”, although she herself claims to be
the unfriendliest woman ever to have to leave the east coast.
Born in P.E.I., hardened in Toronto, Nancy has been writing songs,
many of them comic and/or political, for many years. But although
she’s probably best known for her massive Sunday Morning output
(fifteen years’ worth), she’s probably best liked for the CD
Momnipotent: Songs for Weary Parents, which drew on her experiences
as a late-life mother of two girls.
Her most recent CD of new material "Gaelic Envy and Other Torch
Songs," moves away from her topical songwriting, and is about half
comedy material and half "straight" material. And now Borealis is
releasing a CD version of her beautiful 1983 album "Unexpected."
Nancy has sung in Nicaragua, Germany and Scotland, but she's had an
almost totally Canadian career. Recent gigs include CBC TV's "Comics"
(all Nancy, with a song by her alter-ego Fiona Freud, Second Lady of
the Guitar), and a concert at a Montreal event called Cohen2000, which
celebrated the life and poetry of Leonard Cohen. There she dazzled the
Cohenistas with, among other things, her underground hit, "Leonard
Cohen's Never Gonna Bring My Groceries In."
Check out <http://www.nancy-white.com/> for more information and
sound clip!
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Thu Jan 31 - Tannis Slimmon CD Release - "Oak Lake"
8:30pm, $10 w/ Andy Maize & Josh Finlayson (The SkyDiggers)
Dave Clark (Rheostatics), Lewis Melville,
Rebecca Campbell & more!
Come celebrate the release of the debut CD, "Oak Lake", by
Prairie-born (& now Guelph-based) roots singer-songwiter, Tannis
Slimmon.
Slimmon is well known on the Canadian music scene for years as a
member of the critically acclaimed Bird Sisters, and the driving
roots/rock trio, Benji.
Folks will also know Slimmon for lending her tremendously soulful,
lyrical voice to some of this country's greatest bands (The
SkyDiggers and The Rheostatics), as well as to the recordings
of some of Canada's finest songwriters (Willie P. Bennett,
James Gordon, Gwen Swick).
Many of these musicians - Andy Maize & Josh Finlayson (SkyDiggers),
Dave Clark (Rheostatics), as well as such notables as Lewis Melville,
Rebecca Campbell and Brodie West - will be joining this talented
songsmith on stage to celebrate this finely crafted disc.
The first set features the songs of Oak Lake (so named for her
Manitoba hometown), and will be a nostalgic, joyful ride back to the
sweet and innocent days of Slimmon's life on the family farm.
The second set offers up a musical jamboree of songs by Finlayson
et al (not to mention a host of other surprise guests!).
A grand time is sure to be had by all!
More information, mp3 and real audio clips are available at:
<http://www.hughsroom.com/ztannisslimmon.html>.
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Fri Feb 1 - Eve Goldberg, Trevor Mills, Evalyn Parry
8:30pm, $10
Join three exceptional singer/songwriters for an evening of great
music, great harmonies, and great laughs as Evalyn Parry, Trevor
Mills and Eve Goldberg put on a "rootsy hoot"! The night will
feature a solo set by each performer, followed by a song-swappin',
harmony singin' round robin with all three.
Eve Goldberg is known for her remarkable, clear voice and solid
guitar style; her repertoire spans folk, country, bluegrass, old
time, swing, blues and gospel music. CBC Radio listeners will
recognize her instrumental tune "Watermelon Sorbet" as the opening
theme to the popular national daily show "Richardson's Roundup".
Evalyn Parry weaves together the personal, the political, the poetic
and the hilarious in her compelling combination of music and spoken
word. Described by critics as "melding honesty, conviction and
street-smart coolness", Evalyn's highly original work captures the
human experience with "relevance, intensity and wit".
Great hst of our open stage, bass and guitarist Trevor Mills puts
his heart and soul into his live performances, which always
include a perfect mix of the funny and the serious, the whimsical and
the timeless, leaving his audiences wanting more.
In addition to performing their own unique material, Evalyn, Eve and
Trevor share a love for the traditional folk music they were brought
up singing. So come on out and join in the rootsy hoot!
More information and some real audio clips are available at:
<http://www.hughsroom.com/zfeb1.html>.
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Sat Feb 2 - Wendell Ferguson
8:30pm, $10adv/$12
Wendell Ferguson's songwriting comes from unique perspective, and
for several reasons. He has spent his entire adult life as a
guitarist-for-hire for some of the best in the business. He has
travelled the globe and accompanied a veritable who's who in both
the country field (George Fox, The Dixie Chicks, Tommy Hunter)
and the folk arena (Gordon Lightfoot, Quartette, James Keelaghan,
Bob Snider, Cindy Church, Katherine Wheatley).
Wendell started to find his own writer's voice back around '92 when
he put together the contemporary band "Coda The West", and wrote
or co-wrote most of the act's material. Five top 40 hits garnered
him a Juno nomination in '95 and won him and 'Coda' the Canadian
Country Music Association's "Band of the Year" for '94, '95, & '97.
He has also won "Guitarist of the Year" for the last five years running.
In 1999, Ferguson released his own CD, "I Pick Therefore I
Jam" to rave reviews.
The album was nominated in the C.C.M.A.'s "Vocal Collaboration of the
Year" category for a duet with Prairie Oyster's Russell deCarle. It
was also listed in RPM's Top 100 Albums of 1999 and Country Music
News' "Best of the Year".
Hear these great tunes for yourself this Saturday night!
<http://www.wendellferguson.com/>
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CONCERT CALENDAR
Wed Feb 6 - Mernie (Maryem & Ernie Tollar)
$10/$6 unwaged
Thu Feb 7 - Harry Manx
[presented by Fiddles & Frets]
$12adv/$14
Fri Feb 8 - Hmura
Sat Feb 9/10 - The Nearness of You - Songs of Hoagy Carmichael
w/ Cindy Church, Joe Koller, Joe Sealy
$18adv/$20
Wed Feb 13 - Betty & The Bobs
$10
Thu Feb 14 - Mose Scarlett
$15
Fri Feb 15 - David Bradstreet CD Release
$15
Sat Feb 16 - Jian Ghomeshi (from Moxy Fruvous)
$10
Wed Feb 20 - The Undertakin Daddies
$10
Thu Feb 21 - James Gordon
$15
Fri Feb 22 - Connie Kaldor
$18adv/$20
Sat Feb 23 - Brigham Phillips Big Band w/ guest vocalist John
McDermott - featuring Mike Murley
Sat Mar 2 - Lucy Kaplansky
$16adv/$18
[presented by the Flying Cloud Folk Club]
Sun Mar 3 - James Keelaghan CD Release
[presented by the Flying Cloud Folk Club]
$18adv/$20
2 shows: 2pm, 8:30pm
Fri Mar 8 - Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped In Tradition
Sat Mar 9 - (post) International Women's Day celebration
...stay tuned for details!
Wed Mar 13 - Rodney Brown CD Release / Ian Tamblyn CD Release
$12adv/$15
Thu Mar 21 - Sons of Maxwell
Fri Mar 22 - Jory Nash CD Release
$12
Sat Mar 23 - Stephen Fearing CD Release
Thu Mar 28 - Oh Susanna
[presented by CPReal Productions]
$14adv/$16
Wed Apr 3 - Fairport Convention
Direct from the UK - 35th Anniversary Tour!
$45 adv
$55 after Mar 1
Thu Apr 4 - Anne Lindsay
Fri Apr 5 - Entourloupe
Thu Apr 11 - Mark Haines & Tom Leighton
Fri Apr 12 - The Wyrd Sisters
Fri Apr 19 - Bobby Watt CD Release
Fri Apr 26 - Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart
[presented by Richard Flohil]
$17.50adv/$20
Sat Apr 27 - Susan Werner
$15adv/$17.50
Sun Apr 28 - Matt Haimovitz
Wed May 1 - The Travellers
Wed May 9- - Jazz Fringe Festival
Sat May 11
Wed May 15 - Jimmy LaFave
$15adv/$17.50
Thu May 16 - The Laws CD Release
[presented by Fiddles & Frets Music)
Fri May 17 - Aengus Finnan /
Scott Cameron Smith CD Release, "Easy Street"
Thu May 23 - Marianne Girard
Fri May 31 - Swamperella
Thu June 6 - The Bill Hilly Band
Thu Aug 15 - Christine Lavin
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