January 17
Stereophonic All Ages Show
7pm

El Ron Maltan and the Dice (Sackville, NB)
A group of Sackville’s most talented musicians combine together to form this town’s most exciting new musical project.
www.myspace.com/elronmaltan

Calm Down It’s Monday (Sackville, NB)
Made up of two talented songwriters in their own right, Calm Down It’s Monday are a classic Sackville guitar-drums duo. Julie Doiron and Fred Squire share a penchant for writing poignant songs that sound right at home on a Sackville stage.
www.myspace.com/calmdownitsmonday

The Superfantastics (Halifax, NS)
Halifax's charmingest pop duo continue to win fans in the Maritimes and abroad. In 2008, they released Choose Your Destination, a new EP that grabbed the attention of music critics across the country.
www.myspace.com/thesuperfantastics

West Ave. (Sackville, NB)
One of the great success stories of the Sackville public school system, West Ave. have been surprising and delighting audiences since they broke onto the scene a few years back, all while gathering speed to take the world by storm. www.myspace.com/eunevatsew

Gown
Gown is the solo project of a previously isolated individual. It has been a long journey outward, including a European Tour culminating in a Bark Haze gig with Pete Nolan and Thurston Moore at ATP. He has released a solo LP on Ecstatic Yod called "Sacred Mountains". 3 Lobed has recently put out an LP called "For The Maples" which features a full band(Sunburned Hand Of The Man), which along with his CD-R and cassette releases has drawn attention from The Wire, Dusted, 200lb Underground, and Arthur, amongst others. Some have compared Gown's music to The Dead C, Ash Castles On The Ghost Sand, Charalambides, and Loren Mazzacane, heady company indeed. http://radio3.cbc.ca/bands/Gown/

Tradition
Tradition is primarily the work of James Klassen, the conscience of Toronto and ex-Belleville. "We’ve never put out a record like this I don’t think, it is possibly the most earnest and direct release we’ve ever done. Also, possibly one of the prettiest." - Blocks Recording Club- www.traditionisforlovers.com

Omon Ra
Omon Ra is the creative love child between the eternal minds of cosmorganisms Zachary Fairbrother and Daniel Miller. The aural specter of their Star Child has melted the being time of space and stared upon the pointless vibrations of THE DARK MATTER. With this knowledge they combine the desperate elements of the GODHEAD; mad science and magick are coalesced to mutate and transform vibration, noise, silence, and dance into alchemetic sound. They have no use (or interest) in measurements of any kind, time, space, matter, it is all the same and they know sound (silence) emulates and reverberates from the same source; whether it is from the most remote regions of space or the tiniest particle that resides on the outer most tip of your fingernail, it has arrived.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=242105061

Geoff Burner
I want to drag klezmer music kicking and screaming back into the bars. That’s the goal of Vancouver singer-songwriter-accordion player Geoff Berner.
www.myspace.com/geoffberner

Jay Cocker and Pat LePoidevin
8pm 7 Lorne Street
concert at 7 Lorne Street

Jay Cocker
"If you're searching for a reason to respect Alberta right now, maybe this experimental pop record is it." Lorraine Carpenter "the Montreal Mirror"
http://www.jaycrocker.com/

Pat Lepoidevin
Lately, Pat's music speaks of childhood experiences and animals that are frequently seen in forested areas... Using a looper pedal, Pat now enjoys mixing the practice chanter, bagpipes, vocals, guitar, and whistles of sorts to create a fresh and satisfying sound.
www.myspace.com/patlepoidevin

B.A. Johnson and Horses
8pm 7 Lorne Street
concert at 7 Lorne Street

"B.A. Johnston is a fat lazy chud who lives with his mother in Hamilton, Ontario. He only leaves the house to play shows, work as a fry cook, and to go on sporadic dates that his mom gets for him at her hair salon. He plays sad weird songs about deep frying, pirates, poutine and love on his trurty keyboards and guitar. He also has some cool dance moves and stuff. He has released 3 albums and has spent the last 8 years touring the country on the bus."
http://www.justfriends.ca/ba/

Horses
passionate working class rock from cape breton transplants, along the lines of the constantines, clash and springsteen.

www.myspace.com/horsesrunwildtonight  

Weird Weather & Construction + Destruction, and the stolen minks
afternoon, all ages variety show

Weird Weather is an experimental folk project structured around the songs of Nick Ferrio. His songs have been described as haunting and jovial.

www.myspace.com/weirdweather

Construction and Destruction are David Trenaman and Colleen Collins. They have recently finished recording their second album, The Volume Wars, fairly warm on the heels of Homebodies (--their first)... They live in, work out of, and build onto an old house by the sea in Port Greville, Nova Scotia, where they're as interested in tearing it up as building it slowly...

www.myspace.com/davidtrenaman

The Stolen Minks are a Garage band from Halifax, and they got that TMI.

www.myspace.com/stolenminks

Timber/Timbre and The Weather Station
Friday May 15th, 8pm
7 Lorne Street

Gothic / Rockabilly / Blues
www.myspace.com/timbertimbre

Other / Folk / Experimental
www.myspace.com/theweatherstationband

The Famines (edmonton) + Creeping Nobodies (loud rock)
concert at 7 Lorne Street

The Famines (German pop / Black Metal / Post punk)
Some of this is a lie: the Famines were founded by Raymond E. Biesinger (ex-Vertical Struts) in August 1967 and performed just once as a four-piece rock band, at Electric Garden in Covent Garden, London, before immediately breaking up in disarray. Biesinger retained the services of percussionist Garrett Heath Kruger (ex-Wolfnote) and the duo began producing eccentric, pastoral, and folk-tinged ditties steeped in Tolkienian mythology, with spiritual homages to Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran thrown into the mix for good measure.
www.thefamines.ca

The Creeping Nobodies
are alternative experimental punk!

www.myspace.com/thecreepingnobodies

Attack in Black
Shotgun Jimmie
7 Lorne Street (All Ages)

www.myspace.com/attackinblack

www.myspace.com/jimjimers

Septmeber 2, 2009

Calm Down It's Monday
Cousins
Construction & Destruction
All ages concert at 8pm
$5 cover

Calm Down It's Monday, led by charismatic songwriter Dick Morello of Fred Squire fame, will get the evening started with their usual blend of groove infused blues rock. This local crew is sure to keep it steady, solid and full of moxie

Cousins are charming critical ears with their pure and honest vocals, musical spirit and fun, casual stage presence. A performance you'll certainly want to be at, so you can say "I saw them when..."

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Construction & Destruction are no strangers to Sackville's shores. Playing a wide assortment of songs while rotating through multiple instruments, these genre-hopping artists can simultaneously melt your heart and brain, while spiritually motivating you to pull out that decrepit linoleum in your kitchen.

September 23, 2009

Hot Panda (Edmonton)
Wind Whistles (Vancouver) + Paper Tiger (Holland)
All Ages Concert @ 8pm
$5 Cover

When you get compared, in the same breath, to everything from Daniel Johnson to the Talking Heads, you know you have a sound that's hard to pin down. Since their formation during the particularly chilly winter of 2006, the members of Hot Panda) have yet to sit down and have the discussion that goes: "So, what should we sound like?". The result is a swath of tunes that sound like anything and everything.
http://www.myspace.com/hotttpanda

"The Wind Whistles have the stamina of a Grizzly bear", wrote one reviewer of their previous album 'Window Sills'. Fittingly enough, The Wind Whistles are coming out with their new thematic full length titled 'Animals are people too'. Because, you know, people are animals. Too?
http://www.myspace.com/thewindwhistles

Two Dutch lads in their late twenties, who form the tight singer songwriter unit PaperTiger. Self described as sounding like "boiling water", they actually have legitimate strong yet subtle tunes.
http://www.myspace.com/papertigerholland

http://www.papertiger.nl/
(Official website under construction)

Hot Panda
Photos taken by
Graham Ereaux

Al Tuck (Halifax)
Ron Leary (Windsor)
Concert @ 8pm

Now with five albums, his songs have been covered by Nova Scotian artists such as Joel Plaskett, Matt Mays, Buck 65, Amelia Curran and Erin Costelo. "One of North America's least-known exceptional songwriters" (Stanton Swihart, All Music Guide).

http://www.myspace.com/altucknoaction

"Exquisite songwriting, which melds rustic sensibilities with coffeehouse poetics and indie rock inspirations.", as described by the Windsor star. He offers the best of storytelling with his indie-pop and alt-country sound.

http://www.myspace.com/ronleary

The Good Lovelies (Toronto)
Concert @ 8pm

Anything but a stereoptypical all girl band, the Good Lovelies offer catchy melodies full of wit, charm, and a pile of instruments.

http://www.goodlovelies.com/

Carolyn Mark (Victoria)
Concert @ 8pm

"Some things are just meant to be. Birds are born to fly, politicians were born to lie, big fat guys with giant beards were born to ride their machines without getting hassled by the man, and Carolyn Mark was born to make music."-Andrew Pearson, Mint Records
http://www.carolynmark.com/

Emm Gryner
Share
Concert @ 8pm

Emotional and deeply personal, her music ranges from pop to haunting melodies that always let the artist express herself.
http://www.emmgryner.com/

Musically diverse, trying everything from bossa nova to country folk, Share composes as music lovers making music.
http://www.myspace.com/andrewsisk

Shotgun Jimmie (Sackville)
BA Johnson (Hamilton)
Concert @ 8pm

As local talent of Sackville he may have traveled across Canada to deliver his sound of but this quirky sometimes off kilter artist is a great part of this town.
http://www.myspace.com/jimjimers

He's played in laundromats, laundry rooms, stag and does, church halls, legions, bars, bookstores, vegan cafes and other hell holes across this country. His music is nerd rock at its highest point, dork lullabys and loser anthems.
http://www.myspace.com/bajohnston