- a Juke Joint divebar cabaret with concerts every weekend - All evening shows occur between 9 pm and Midnight! -All shows are smoke-free!! - Tickets range from $5-$25 limited seating first-come, first-served |
Hall of Fame:
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THIS WEEK: Jan 6 to 11th /09
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| Fri 9 Jan 8:30 pm |
FM Hi Low (Mtl) plus Saint Even** Ory No'Man *** |
Combining elements of folk lyricism, reggae esthetic and hip-hop wordplay, Fraser soulfuly sings about our cultural and natural environment.
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| Sat 10 Jan 8:30 pm |
Ken Workman and the Union* and s/g's Greg Brayford and the Flats** John McAlpine*** |
*A true roots-rock experience with a hint of pop, his live show demonstrates dynamics that can reduce a room to silence or fill a dance floor by exploding with a driving beat **Chelsea-based indie rock band. Roots- influenced music with 1960's pop sensibilities, rock and roll. ***Americana Rock - lead singer for the Chislers
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| Sun 11 Jan 4pm |
Elage* and Jokko and s/g Lora Bidner |
* **Afro-beat / Dub / Funk
kids under 12 (and over 75) Free Students and teens (with ID) 1/2 price All AGES Kids under 12 and Over 75 - Free Students and teens (with ID) 1/2 price |
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Next week and beyond |
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| Fri 16 Jan 9.00 pm |
Snailhouse* and Olympic Symphonium** |
*Pop / Lounge / Acoustic **Acoustic / Folk / Pop
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| Sat 17 Jan 9.00 pm |
Bob Wiseman* and Bob Snider** Marianne Dissard*** |
*review from ROCKTIMES in Germany translated via software
Category: Music "Wiseman is a nerve saw." **He's been called a national treasure, a folk hero and one of Canada's best songwriters **Regional Mexican / Glam / Chinese pop
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| Sun Jan 18, 2009 4.00 pm |
Sheesham and Lotus special guest: Mike Evin |
Old-time Rag-time High Steppin' Mountain music Sheesham Crowe: fiddle, bones, harmonica, footstepping, vocals, gourd banjo and jaw-harp hambone. Lotus Wight: banjos, bass harmonica, jaw harp, vocals, gourd banjo, hambone.
kids under 12 (and over 75) Free Students and teens (with ID) 1/2 price All AGES Kids under 12 and Over 75 - Free Students and teens (with ID) 1/2 price |
| Thurs 22 Jan 2009 9.00 pm |
Amos the Transparent * special guests Tim Chaisson and Morning Fold **( PEI) The Human Statues*** |
*“One of the most beautiful, intimate and intricate albums of the year…the album is relentlessly god-like in its songwriting and arrangements.” -Some Velvet Blog ** A stacked crew of some of the best young talented rock musicians in Atlantic Canada they continue to perfect their heart-pounding stage show to rave reviews
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| Fri 23 Jan 8:30 pm |
Basia Bulat* special guest: Leif Vollebekk** |
Pop / Folk / Melodramatic Popular Song ~ "More fun than your very own pony!" ** alt folk
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| Sat 24 Jan 8:30 pm |
Tom Wilson in concert special guest Brent Titcomb** |
Legendary lead singer of Junkhouse
and 1/3rd of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, an all-time
Blacksheep legend and favourite, and one of the best
songwriters Canada has ever produced...warning: politically
incorrect, outrageously outspoken and freekin' hilarious
too. **"The soulful sound of Brent Titcomb was a real crowd pleaser. Armed with his acoustic guitar and the voice of an angel...Titcomb's rapport with the audience was amazing." SEE Magazine, Edmonton
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| Sun 25 Jan 2009 4.00 pm |
Bobby Watt's Annual Robbie Burn's Day Party with Ecosse: | pipes, whisky and haggis!
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| Sat 31 Jan 2009 8:30 pm |
USWM ( United Steelworkers of Montreal) plus Darling DeMaes** |
THE UNITED STEEL WORKERS OF MONTREAL, having laid their claim to a plot of musicdom just east of Alt-Country, forged themselves a unique sound that has been described as "rousing, old style cowboy punk with an urban edge" **Indie / Rock / Acoustic ~ "dark tales sung sweet"
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| Sun 1 Feb 4:00 pm |
Mark Berubé and the Patriotic Few and s/g's Paisley Jura** |
*…it’s a cerebral kind of cabaret-coloured, full-band folk that the multi-instrumentalist is peddling, and hopefully selling. The man is all atmosphere and feeling, and could comfortably stand toe-to-toe with the David Grays and Hawksley Workmans of the world. - THE HOUR (Montreal) **Halifax-born, Toronto-raised Paisley Jura combines city sophistication with country charm in her elegant pop. Fronting her band playing a 200-year-old Italian double bass, Paisley Jura is quickly garnering a following with her gossamer vocals, memorable melodies and thought-provoking lyrics. All AGES SUNDAY MATINEE kids under 12 (and over 75) Free Students and teens (with ID) 1/2 price All AGES Kids under 12 and Over 75 - Free Students and teens (with ID) 1/2 price
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| Thurs 5 Feb 8:30 pm |
That 1 Guy special guest: Wax Mannequin** |
( surprise hit of Bluesfest 2008 ) "When That 1 Guy is in town, his grooves are so bombastic they rattle china cabinets and dissolve kidney stones well into the next zip code. " Judah Gold, Relix Magazine **The songs sound like jokes at first, but they are serious. It's kind of an extreme form of joke that pushes through funny and becomes serious all over again -- but serious in a loud, dizzy, brand new way
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| Fri 6 Feb 8.30 pm |
IDOW presents: Rose Cousins with s/gs special guests: Ron Leary** tba*** |
Folk / Bluegrass "2008 ECMA Female Recording of the Year" ** gaining recognition as one of Canada's most important emerging roots artists ***Winner of the CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award and the Grand Prize Winner of Toronto's IndieWeek - intensely powerful live show.
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| Sat 7 Feb 4:00 PM pm |
IDOW presents: Amelia Curran with s/g tba** and Erin Costelo*** |
SATURDAY MATINEE Rock / Roots Music / Alternative **Davis' creativity is as fluid as her sexuality and as eclectic as her work. She writes and loves from the same place - her hopeful heart. ***Jazz / Experimental / Pop
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| Sat 7 Feb 8:30 pm |
Six Shooter Records and blacksheep present: NQ Arbuckle with s/g Ron Leary and surprise mystery guest *** |
blacksheep favorite The loping rhythms are drenched in tasty cowboy guitar licks and create an urban wild west sound. The songs are lyrical and gritty and are snapshots of sweetness and loss seen through a few bottles of beer. **(The Guthries, The Heavy Blinkers, Reels) ~ "Play her when you have company and absolutely everyone will ask you who the singer is. Some will say she sounds like a female Leonard Cohen." Monday Magazine, BC ***In 1998 he formed The Killers with friends Julien Beillard (Woodenstars) and Tim Kingsbury (Arcade Fire).
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| Sun 8 Feb 4pm |
Lindsay Ferguson* with special guests Tanya Davis and Don Brownrigg |
*Pop / Rock / Soul
"LINDSAY FERGUSON Best New Artist 2008 OttawaXpress" **With regards to his musical style, it has been described as "roots-rock with hints of folk wrapped up in a pop package". ***"...takes the listener in instantly and, like a good novel, keeps you captivated from beginning to end. Acoustic based, the songs don't try too hard and aren't intimidating in any way - it's just beautiful, truthfully written music." (The Telegram, St. John's, NL)
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| Sun 8 Feb 8.00 pm |
Jeremy Fisher* and s/g Hannah Georgas** |
*Acoustic / Breakbeat / Folk Plus Catchy hooks "She Runs Guns, Everyone wants Guns...." **Indie / Pop / Alternative ~ Hannah recently won The Music BC Songbird West Singer/Songwriter Competition for 2008 and her debut EP "The Beat Stuff" is due for nation-wide release early in the new year.
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| Thurs 12 Feb 8:30 pm |
Divine Brown* special guest Sean Jones** |
*a swooning return to a time of slow dancing and doo wop has cemented Divine’s reputation as one of the country’s strongest urban talents.
indi soul over rock - a voice so sweet it can make even the angels weep.
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| Fri 13 Feb 2009 9.00 pm |
Geoff Berner with s/g Forest City Lovers** |
Other / Folk / Punk Our favorite whiskey drinking rabbi! **soft, sweet Indie rock sounds are dreamy and filled with lovely lyrics, melodies and harmonies ~ SarahBrideau.com
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| Sat 14 Feb 8:30 pm |
Jenn Grant cd release, plus Jon and Roy** |
Pop / Folk / Indie **Folk / Roots
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| Sun 15 Feb 2009 4 pm pm |
Glen Nuotio* Pacifika |
*(Newfoundland / Ontario / Finland) "..gentle and bombastic
songs… Nuotio gives
every word and note a cinematic sheen, virtually drawing a
shield between
audience and performer." Daniel Sylvester - EXCLAIM! Concert
Reviews **from Vancouver, absolutely anybody will be thrilled to discover this supercool jazzy latin r&b/pop featuring Silvana Kane, who reminds of Bebel Gilberto and Juana Molina! first Alex Cuba... next: Pacifika!
kids under 12 (and over 75) Free Students and teens (with ID) 1/2 price All AGES Kids under 12 and Over 75 - Free Students and teens (with ID) 1/2 price |
| Thurs 19 Feb 8:30 pm |
Jill Barber | Double Juno Nominee "Jill Barber is a real songwriter... a damn good songwriter." ~Kris Kristofferson "Delightfully distinctive, bravely unclassifiable, sexy and vulnerable... For All Time is a little masterpiece." (**** 4 stars) The Toronto Star
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| Fri 20 Feb 8:30 pm |
Jill Barber | Double Juno Nominee "Jill Barber is a real songwriter... a damn good songwriter." ~Kris Kristofferson "Delightfully distinctive, bravely unclassifiable, sexy and vulnerable... For All Time is a little masterpiece." (**** 4 stars) The Toronto Star
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| Sat 21 Feb 8:30 pm |
Strung: featuring Doug Cox* April Verch** Tony McManus*** |
*From Doug's home on Vancouver Island the composer, multi-instrumentalist and music programmer has carved-out a diverse career as a recording artist and session and touring musician. **When you see twenty-seven year old April Verch perform, the first thing that strikes you is the pure energy that infuses her fiddle playing and stepdancing. ***In little over ten years as a professional musician Tony McManus has come to be recognised throughout the world as the leading guitarist in Celtic Music
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| Sun 22 Feb 4 pm |
Rob Lutes* special guests tba** and tba |
*“He will soon be counted amongst the ranks of the best in the industry, a rare talent that keeps getting better with each project released” says Hello Darlin’ Productions promoter Matt Large. **Folkk / Roots Music ***Devoted equally to lyrical craft, innovative musicianship, and engaging performances, dozen years of writing, composing, and touring have cemented her position in hearts and playlists across the world.
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| Thurs 26 Feb 8:30 pm |
Kevin Breit* with s/g CR Avery |
*2007 JUNO AWARD WINNER; Instrumental Album of the Year, "Run Neil Run" by Sisters Euclid. **Blues / Classical / Hip Hop
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| Fri 27 Feb 8:30 pm |
Lucie Idlout* CD Release s/g and Flecton Big Sky** Rolf Klausener |
A one-woman revolution in Canadian music, taking the old blues wraiths and wrestling them into fierce new shapes. - Globe and Mail (National Paper)
**Neo-soul / Psychedelic / Roots Music (Joined onstage by Rolf Klausener of the Acorn!!)
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| Sat 28 Feb 8:30 pm |
Brock Zeman and s/g's The Country Boys |
"he's got fistfuls of ferociously good songs and he's not afraid to use 'em. In many ways, he reminds me of a kid Fred Eaglesmith: great stories, fine melodies, a wicked sense of humour." ~ lucy
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| Thurs 5 March 8:30 pm |
Jon Davis* CD Launch, with special guests The Brothers Farr Eric James PLUS The Shamrocks |
*"It's not often you encounter a musician that can write, sing and play really well. Jon Davis does all three now and is poised to become an artist of consequence in the very near future" - Bill Garrett, Borealis Records **Blues / Folk / Soul
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| Fri 6 March 8:30 pm |
The Balconies* and Love Machine |
*Totally Dance-able pop. BIO: The Balconies was formed in December 2007 by Jacquie Neville (Jetplanes of Abraham), Liam Jaeger (For the Mathematics), and Steve Neville.
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| Sat 7 March, 8:30 pm |
The Strawbs in Concert, (electric version) | The legendary British supergroup returns! More about the Strawbs
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| Thurs 12 March 8:30 pm |
Stephen Fearing * and s/g Catherine MacLellan ** |
Folk Rock / Other / Acoustic "He who lives by the song, dies by the road." **Folk / Acoustic / Indie ~ Prince Edward Island
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| Fri 13 March 8.30 pm |
Kelly Joe Phelps | original country-blues and folk music infused with what The Washington Post calls “poignancy, passion and spirituality
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| Sat March 14, 2009 8:30 pm |
Tom Russell | Folk / Americana / Country "One day the greatness of Tom Russell will surely be fully recognised and if the big names populating this powerhouse collection help make it come sooner, then we should all celebrate." (Colin Irwin -Mojo, October 2007)
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| Sun 15 March 4:00pm |
Annual St Patrick's Day Stomp with The Doggers!! with s/g opening act Tyler Kealey** |
aka - the McLaughlin brothers with a couple of Sullivan's and a Kealey. **fabulous local multi-instrumentalist with silky-smooth voice ... featuring Irish Stew, Bacardi and Cola, Guinness, and Venosta girls step- dancing on the tables .... children under 10 (with helmets) and partyers over 75 - free 200+ people crawled away from last year's party...you should be one of them!!
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| Fri 20 March 8:30 pm |
Enter the Haggis | Celtic Pop jam-band
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| Sat 21 March 8:30 pm |
Roxanne Potvin* with s/g Treasa Levasseur** |
Blues / Roots Music / R'n B - blacksheep favorite
** music that seeps into your soul with lines that linger long and don't let go until the last note is sung. Leveraging the muscle of Muscle Shoals, the mojo of Motown and the blues from Chicago,
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| Thurs 2 April 8:30 pm |
Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart* special guest: Pascale Goodrich-Black** |
Folk / Americana / Acoustic (tennessee) ** Her songs combine well-crafted lyrics with acoustically driven music and create haunting and memorable stories.
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| Fri 3 April 8:30 pm |
Thw Burning Hell* with s.gs The Fembots** |
*Indie / Folk Rock / Melodramatic Popular Song "Moments of macabre comedy weave their way in and out of nearly every song on Happy Birthday… the kind of album we'll be throwing on the stereo as the end times draw near and we crowd into our bomb shelters to eat granola bars and have a good laugh over everything that's gone wrong with the world." ** songs written and performed on power tools, toys and broken down thrift store instruments. Unique, post-industrial folk songs using tape loops and reel-to-reel machines mixed with often frantic live performances. ChartAttack, Jan. '08
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| Sat 4 April 8:30 pm |
MonkeyJunk | R&B / Soul / Roots Music "swamp boogie R&B, bedroom funk, lethal love songs" featuring Tony D, Steve Marriner, Matt Sobb...smoking hot blues
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| Sun 5 April 4:00 pm |
MonkeyJunk | R&B / Soul / Roots Music "swamp boogie R&B, bedroom funk, lethal love songs" featuring Tony D, Steve Marriner, Matt Sobb...smoking hot blues
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| Sat 18 April 2009 9.00 pm |
Paul Reddick* | Blues / Roots Music / Folk Rock singer/songwriter and harmonica player in the roots music tradition exploring the blues, country/folk music and creating landscapes of longing and love.
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| Tues 21 April 8:30 pm |
The Handsome Family* |
Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing...Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice — GREIL MARCUS
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| Fri 24 April 8:30pm |
Carolyn Mark* and Cousin Harley ** |
presented by National Arts Centre's BC Scene 2009 *Country / Folk / Roots Music **Rockabilly / Blues / Western Swing
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| Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:30 pm |
Eliza Gilkyson | Folk / Americana / Folk Rock
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| 14 May 8:30 pm |
Kevin Kane* and Two Twenty Two** |
*( Grapes of Wrath) - quiet, artful song-writing and sparse acoustic arrangements. **Indie / Acoustic / Folk Rock
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| Thurs 4th June 8:30 pm |
Romi Mayes CD Release Show | Country / Bluegrass / Roots Music
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| Sat 6 June 8:30pm |
Dala* The Undesirables** |
*accoustic pop darlings featured on Stuart McLean's Vinyl Caf?. **Roots Music / Blues / Folk
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| June 24 8:30 pm |
Fred Eaglesmith | Fred Head's - Rejoice!!!! (Los Angeles) Award-winning singer-songwriter Fred Eaglesmith inspires comparisons to icons like Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springsteen, tops the roots music charts, and boasts devoted fans that include a slew of his fellow songwriters. High-profile tastemakers in the know, fellow musicians like Toby Keith and The Cowboy Junkies as well as film folks like Martin Scorsese and James Caan, to name a few consider him one of the stellar musical and lyrical talents of our day.
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| Tuesdays 7.30 pm |
MAY 15 - 08 - parked till fall- Free Indie Movie Nights are Back |
featuring indie film makers and Invisible Cinema, NFB and documentary films. Free Popcorn TOO Come out and see some neat stuff |
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Afternoon Confirmed!! |
Evening Sold Out!!  blacksheep favoritesSmoke Free Advanced Tix at Compact Music Bank and Third or Bank at Gloucester (613) 233-8922 All AGES SUNDAY MATINEE kids under 12 (and over 75) Free Students and teens (with ID) 1/2 price All AGES Kids under 12 and Over 75 - Free Students and teens (with ID) 1/2 price Smoke Free drop by or call (819) 459-3228
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general info or questions
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notre client?le francophone peut nous rejoindre au 819-459-3228
PLEASE NOTE
- Reservations are for admission only (not seats!)
- Advance tickets must be picked up in person before the show
Most Sunday Matinees ~ are "all ages" events
Most Sunday Matinees ~ Teens / students receive 2 for 1 admission
Most Sunday Matinees ~ free for kids 12 and under - 75 and over
