A note about Stephen Wise

SAT, Feb 14th, VALENTINE'S DAY
Baldachin Ballroom (no live entertainment in the pub)

As a courtesy of Ascendant Productions we will be giving away two tickets for free to the first caller @ 613 269 3448 (message) mentioning the Stephen Wise concert in Merrickville. Tickets cost $ 20 and can be picked up @ Harry McLean's Pub in Merrickville.

The versatile musician and singer is known not only by his cooperation with

STEVIE WONDER (more fanfares)

but also by his spiritual activities back home in Pennsylvania. Check out his music here:

From the home page
The Stephen Wise Orchestra is one of the most soul satisfying bands in the private events industry throughout the Delaware Valley, Greater Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. They play at weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs, corporate events and other private parties.

This is a star quality band to have at any party… Harold Katz (Former owner of Philadelphia 76ers)

Stephen Wise is a smooth, seasoned and successful bandleader and lead vocalist. Stephen’s charismatic style coupled with the musical talent of he and the band exudes has satisfied literally hundreds of clients. The band sings and plays the best timeless music of the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and current music. From classic soul, reggae, funk, disco, classic rock, R&B, jazz standards and more, the band performs at the highest level to keep the dance floor bumpin’ with eloquence and class. He has worked with major artists like Stevie Wonder, Patti Labelle, Teena Marie, Boyz II Men, and The Roots, to name a few. Many of his band mates have likewise worked with major artists like Pharrell, Lauryn Hill, Common, Jill Scott and Regina Belle. The Stephen Wise Orchestra knows how to bring your party to that crescendo that your guests will talk about for years to come. This band is hot like FIRE!

The band is excited to be playing at The Baldachin Ballroom In Merrickville for a Valentines Dance February 14th 2009.

2 free tickets to Stephen Wise @ the Baldachin Ballroom on Valentine's

U think your town is hibernating, but it's buzzing under the snow:

1. Tonight (as every first Monday of the month) is the open stage @ Harry McLean's Pub, 111 ST Lawrence @ Main in Merrickville, ON, Tel 613 269 4223;
Inn keeper David Ellis is hosting this jam, all are welcome 2 join in or come up with their own performances. PA is there, please byo instruments!

2. Wednesday, FEB 4th, singer songwriter Gale-Marie Edmunds will be celebrating her birthday with an acoustic Jam @ the same place, word is, that lots of fellow AQUARIANS (B-ware!) will help her partying a bit but other signs are of course welcome as well!

3. On SAT, Feb 7th, the Doherty Brothers will be live in the pub (same place), while Linda Girard's Smoky Undertones from Kemptville will be playing in the Dining Room;

and (sudden fanfares here):

4. Stephen Wise's NewPhunk will be coming 2 Merrickville on

SAT, Feb 14th, VALENTINE'S DAY
Baldachin Ballroom (no live entertainment in the pub)

As a courtesy of Ascendant Productions we will be giving away two tickets for free to the first caller @ 613 269 3448 (message) mentioning the Stephen Wise concert in Merrickville. Tickets cost $ 20 and can be picked up @ Harry McLean's Pub in Merrickville.

The versatile musician and singer is known not only by his cooperation with

STEVIE WONDER (more fanfares)

but also by his spiritual activities back home in Pennsylvania. Check out his music here:
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/7143179/a/Next+Page+Featuring+Stephen+Wise.htm

The concert will be the start to an entire series out of the cooperation between a local promoter, LiveTourArtists, the new Barrymore's management in Ottawa and the Baldachin in Merrickville. Check in soon for more info and updates on the the next concerts!

BarKanada 2.edition airs SAT, Jan 3rd 2009, 11am EST, @ tonkuhle.de

Hello again, and a very happy (and, hmmmmh, what would be most spectacular - more reasonable?) new year -

I'd like to update u a little bit:

1.
The second edition of BarKanada is scheduled to air
SAT, 3rd of January 2009, 11am-12pm EST - tune in live on the internet @

tonkuhle. de (click on "Livestream" in the right menu column)

2. I found out, that Tonkuhle artists should be receiving royalties because of German GEMA paying out entitlement depending on how much played on Tonkuhle via fm - all they need is the playlist, and that I provide... for now u can look up those details here:
rideauguide. blogspot. com

Wer hat, der kann:

Part D und E sind der schoenste Teil der Sendung. Das Lied veraenderte voellig seinen Charakter waehrend sich diese Violine hineinschleicht, absolut zeitgleich mit Lovelace, seinen Dank sagend fuer die zahlreichen Briefe ins Gefaengnis und wie die Unterstuetzung seinen Geist erheiterte.

Ich haette das nicht geplant: das Klangstueck von Tanya Tagak Gillis (vermutlich schlimme Ausprache ihres Namens) verlieh meiner Lovelace Quote eine Dynamik, die mich an einigen Stellen staunen liess. Schwierig, sich als Autor zu sehen. Fuehlt sich eher an als waere ich in der Ausfuehrung taetig, ziemlich krank ... :)

Zur Hoelle mit den Manuskripten - es lebe die Intuition!

Alright, I know this is Canada:

D and E are the most beautiful parts of this' month's edition. The song changed completely as soon as this violin (or viola?) was sneaking in, on the same split second as Lovelace is saying his thanx for all the letters to prison and how they uplift his spirit.

I couldn't have planned it: Tanya Tagak (probably overwhelmed with the pronunciation of that name) Gillis' sound piece gave my quote some dynamics that stunned me at times. Impossible to think I authored that. Feels more like I'm channeling something, pretty sick ...

2 hell with the manuscripts - long live intuition!

Thanx 4 reading and try listening 2 it - cinema for your mind is a fascinating thing ...

In terms of time management for this year I'd have only one comment:
All we're still debating is, how 2 soften up the changes. If we act now, maybe they're gonna be easier 2 survive.

New nukes will be a disaster for an economically fragile period not to speak of the relatively irreversible and permanent damage and its "bonus" features which come with the highly radioactive and hot waste, vising its capabilities as potential material for A-bombs, and, actually at the beginning of that most decadent way of getting wasted, the mining of Uranium.

Show the government where ever u can: Profit has its reasonable and crucial limits.

Oh what a wonderful place this could be, if we made it one.

Ok, back 2 work!
Thanx 4 letting me waste ur time

Maren Molthan
barKanada@gmail.com
tonkuhle. de
rideauguide. blogspot. com

playlist
Steve Marriner Shake It Upside Down (total about 2 min) Going Up 2007
Meredith Luce Great Lake Swimmers Neck Of The Woods 2008
Black Cats (about 2 min) October 2007
Snow Country (live) Neck Of The Woods 2008
Chickadee (live) Neck Of The Woods 2008
Neck Of The Woods (live) Neck Of The Woods 2008
Terry Tufts Awake Ye Drowsie Sleeper The Better Fight 2005
Tanya Tagaq Gillis Fire Ikuma with Mike Patton AUK/BLOOD 2008
Terry Tufts Embracing The Addiction The Better Fight 2005
Jack De Keyzer That's The Only Time Blues Thing 2007
PEACEWORK Takes My Blues Away Choices 2007
Blue Rodeo Try Greatest Hits 2001
Molly Johnson Rain Lucky 2008
Steve Marriner Shake It Upside Down Going Up 2007

Internet:
http://www.thebranchrestaurant.ca/
http://baldachin.com

PEACEWORK release - a lot of fun!

PEACEWORK and Bova Sound - good vibrations!

fltr:
Phillip Shaw Bova
Scott Arena
Philip Victor Bova
Maren Molthan


PEACEWORK - all together now!

fltr:
Tanya Barkhouse
Peter Woods
Phillip Shaw Bova
Scott Arena
Philip Victor Bova
Maren Molthan
Eric Hasnick (hiding)
Gale Edmunds


SHINE!

vltr:
Tanya Barkhouse
Gale Edmunds


all photos by Gord Glaze (www.commeleon.com) - he went home to get the camera and shot tons of fantastic photos, thanx so much, Gord!!!

PEACEWORK: Independent soul formation releases debut CD in Merrickville

Are you ready? Love and Peace Maren & Scott


myspace.com/peacework maren@peaceworkband.ca scott@peaceworkband.ca


Press release:

PEACEWORK: Independent soul formation releases debut CD in Merrickville

SAT 17th November 2007
doors open 8 pm

baldachin inn ballroom (www.baldachin.com)
111 st lawrence @ main
merrickville
613 269 4223

tickets @ harry mclean's pub (same address) or from the band $ 20 includes admission and cd at door

There are ten songs on the album "choices" - containing brand new material, Scott points out: "Just To Be With You" is a song that I wrote for Maren, when we were visiting her family in Germany earlier this year. It was awesome to present it only three days later on a huge Berlin outdoor stage where one of her friends put us up to play for the Green Party on a worker's day celebration (bits and pieces of that experience soon on myspace). There were easily 10 000 people

PEACEWORK Marianenplatz, Berlin, Germany

gathering - it is then when you realize that people can make a difference every day, with your choices where to shop, how to travel or commute, how to work, what to eat - everything is connected. And that is how we got our band motto, every step counts!"

Maren Molthan and Scott Arena founded the band PEACEWORK three years ago. They both play guitar and sing. The CD contains entirely original material, groovy songs with a message. "Have It All", first on the cd, is a typical example, explains Maren: "I was listening to CBC when George W got reelected, and just felt devastated, he would have another four years to ruin the country some more... so many people left the government that day, and I remember all those applications for Canadian residency or even citizenship coming in from down there - three hours and a heated discussion later, the song was basically written - we have too much at stake to let foolish marionettes in politics carry out the monstrous ways of unsustainable neo-economics. To write that song was our way to speak out against the arrogance!"



In addition to the ten audio files that can be played on cd players, the artists threw in two movies, all songs in mp3 format and the lyrics of the songs in pdf - included on the data part of the cd - a part that windows and mac computers will be able to read. "It was kind of important for both of us, to have something physical like a cd, but we sure are fascinated with the digital market - maybe we'll do the next album on a USB-drive, like the Barenaked Ladies. We like the idea of reusing things and giving the consumer a "choice" ... that word is just everywhere", smile the musicians.

Very proud are the two song writers to have the Phils from Bova Sound, Ottawa, play drums and bass. They are a father and son team and also produced the PEACEWORK cd (and Scott's first with his former band Free Souls). Phillip Victor Bova (bass) and Philip Shaw Bova (drums) are also known for their superb analog guitar and mic preamps, regularly sold from their company Sage to the band members of Tom Petty and other successful Rock'n Rollers.

Furthermore will the band receive reinforcement in form of hot and holy back vocals by two local female singers known from gigs in the area with the formation Uncommon Ground.


A message from the band:
Yo!

we've got two songs up from our brand new cd (check CD Baby and itunes etc. after the release) -

Listen for free and come out to the release in Merrickville - nice break from the big city, as there are tons of lovely b&b's right in town, and with the various arts and artisan stores you might get some x-mas shopping done at the same time.

Think twice: Your dollar is going to make a big difference in a Canadian community instead of going to a big corporation!

PEACE OUT, everybody!