Showing posts with label Merrickville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Merrickville. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

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.

Monday, February 2, 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!

Friday, November 30, 2007

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!!!

Saturday, November 3, 2007

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!

Friday, June 15, 2007

The Wailin Jennys at the Merrickville Cruise and Shop

Looking good the pretty sistas, don't they?!!!


Wait until you see The Wailin Jennys play and sing

on the 8th of July

in Merrickville, ON,

just a little bit further from Mainstreet Restaurant, where the annual Merrickville Cruise and Shop will enroll.

Friday, April 13, 2007

Lynne Hanson plays her first Harry


Lynne Hanson is on her way to Merrickville to play for the first time (!) at Harry McLean's

Saturday, 21st of APRIL, 9 pm.

Her songwriting and singing and the courage to put up with the Saturday-night-crowd of a small town deserves a full house, so come ye all plentiful, no matter shape and size. The following passage is from her homepage:

"A
stunning collection of roots-based songs coupled with exceptional vocals and an impressive array of musicians. Every year at KVMR-FM, we're asked to choose our Top 5 new releases for air play. Things I Miss will surely be on my list!"
- Dennis Brunnenmeyer, Nevada City Limits, KVMR-FM Radio
LATEST NEWS:
River By My Side from Things I Miss won the Blues Award for the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals (OCFF) 2006 "Songs from the Heart" contest.

Things I Miss was featured on CBC Radio One Fresh Air on Sunday August 6th as one of their favorite new CDs of the month.

THINGS I MISS

now available at CD Baby and in Ottawa at the Ottawa Folklore Centre located at 1111 Bank Street (at Sunnyside).

Good luck in L.A.

I am just writing to send a farewell to Angelina Wrona, who took off from Merrickville, Ontario, Canada to Los Angeles, California, USA today (? latest tomorrow)

TO PRESENT HER ARTWORK

IN TWO GALLERIES

IN L.A..

Wow, that is so cool. I hope you're wearing the blues brothers' shades, have the windows of your rental car zipped down and some Sheryl Crow cranked, having some fun!!!

Here, I found that on yahoo Canada Jan 12 07 - that is about as much as I connect to L.A., except maybe for my (highlight-of-my-career) interview with Billy Bob Thornton and the chitter-chatter of all of the waiting Montreal entertainment journalists, evolving with a speed of bacterial growth) and all the really amazing movies that have been published lately (blood diamonds? tough to stand, but that seems immanent in the yin and yang of truth - watch with friends and discuss after).

They will just adore you there, Angie.

We all can't wait to get you back and hope deep inside of us that we won't. But on the other hand, in these times of modern means of communication, you can probably manage the coming rush on your paintings from your convenient home office.

Then again: the brilliant and the beautiful - who wouldn't join in a stroll on that sidewalk? Off ye go, you bet!

Maybe there's even hope for that car-infested concrete-chaos in the otherwise absolutely beautiful California to make a change. But only if the brilliant get on it and the beautiful are in the tv-campaigns to rehypnotise the population.

Good luck!

Golden Globes going green with eco-friendly party
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood environmentalists are throwing the first "green" Golden Globes awards bash for celebrities next week, complete with organic food, recycled paper decorations and tables made of reclaimed wood.
Wed Jan 10, 06:20 PM EST (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood environmentalists are throwing the first "green" Golden Globes awards bash for celebrities next week, complete with organic food, recycled paper decorations and tables made of reclaimed wood.

The Environmental Media Association (EMA) and entertainment network E! will host the January 15 "Golden Green" party in Beverly Hills to mark the annual movie and television awards ceremony.

Actresses Maggie Gyllenhaal, Eva Longoria, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rachel Weisz and socialite Paris Hilton are among the celebrities scheduled to attend the event in a former department store set to become an eco-friendly apartment building.

"Green living has become a way of life for many of today's celebrities," said Debbie Levin, EMA president. "We are proud to be the first ones to step up and create a party that unites talent and social responsibility."

The party will be set in a landscape of plants and flowers in a bid to promote awareness of green issues, and the group TreePeople will plant one tree for every attendee.

It is one of dozens of parties planned by movie studios and television networks to celebrate the Golden Globe awards. The prizes are handed out annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and seen as indicators of likely Oscar winners next month.

The EMA, created in 1989, aims to tap the power of the entertainment industry to educate people about environmental issues.

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Featured Communities

* Burritt's Rapids
Secret beauty. Best General Store ever. Has got ice cream. Also the only store in town. Laundry for three quarters in the back of Michael's Restaurant (opulent baklava!) at the locks.
* Kars
Marina with boat repair. Sport airport towards North Gower. Boat launch at the park. Oh, ah, yes, there is also a gas station and a telephone booth. Life like it used to be.

The Kemptville Creek at Curry Park. photo M.Molthan
* Kemptville
Boomtown central, as North Grenville shows fastest community growth in Ontario. Docking before downtown bridge on the creek, just like the old steamers did. Boat launch at Curry Park. Beer store, newly expanded LCBO, supermarkets and Lebanese food in the mall - very skilled and fresh local cuisine at The Branch Restaurant (families: join in the music during the legendary open stage every last Sunday of the month). Independent, Food Basics, Canadian Tire.
* Manotick (Ojibway for "Island in the River")
Marina. First community south of Ottawa. Two miles south of Long Island lock. Nine holes at Manotick Golf Club. Supermarkets, LCBO and beer store downtown. Banks: TD Canada Trust, RBC Royal.
* Merrickville
Marinas on each side of the locks. Home made chili-chocolate ice cream (seen the movie?! parlez à Serge!) and best lattes up- and down stream at Brewed Awakenings (now also have a branch in Kemptville). Organic ingredients and dishes will be served in the soon to open Serendipity on Mainstreet, next to the Mainstreet Restaurant. La dolce vita for homesick immigrants and other demanding palates in the new Italian restaurant The Locks, a little further down the road, or if you just need some international ingredients, go to Mrs. McGarrigle's Fine Foods (at least 20 different chocolate bars not to mention all the oils, vinegars and mustards!). Highest gay population amongst Ontario villages (do you ever wonder how these statistics come about? I mean, would you really answer a questionnaire asking your sexual preferences?!). Lots of artists, artisans, stores. Banks: RBC Royal. Post office on St Lawrence St. Free Internet, wifi and a probably pretty crazy bunch of regulars at Harry McLean's Pub in the Baldachin Inn (make sure to catch a Saturday night here. Everything is possible after David climbs on something to light up the red stage light). Combined LCBO-Beer store. Food store/supermarket on Saint Lawrence Street.
* Perth
Who the heck was Stewart and what did he do in the park? Live music in numerous cosy pubs and bars with lots of patios and terraces on Gore Street. Home of Brock Zeman and Keith Glass (Prairie Oyster) - both seen last summer on (or in?) various stages during Stewart Park Festival, the former looking kindalike sobering out on an innocent Sunday morning under a tree. But maybe all that turns out to be just an artefact in the delusional regard of the publisher`s envious eye - who knows. Banks: Bank of Montreal BMO, CIBC, RBC Royal Bank, Scotiabank, TD Canada Trust. Exquisit coffee and dessert in the Old Mill.
* Port Elmsley
* Rideau Ferry
* Smiths Falls
Free Internet at public library (81, Beckwith Street North, 90-second-walk from TD branch). Nine holes at Donneybrooke and Smiths Falls Golf Club. Nice patio on the river at Do Little's Pub and Eatery - don't let the Comfort Inn scare you, but give in to your chocolate cravings at the Hershey factory. Banks: BMO Bank of Montreal, CIBC, RBC Royal Bank, Scotiabank, TD Canada Trust. Post office near police station, Beer store, LCBO, Independent, Food Basics, Canadian Tire.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Rainmaker in Merrickville

Thursday, March 15th it's premiere time again in Merrickville:

Directed by Annette and produced by her husband Richard Huton, the group presents a piece for spring that might just come with a couple of analogies for a small town:

"The Rainmaker", by Richard Nash, features what can happen when somebody new is generous in promising the long missed precipitations for an area in a terrible drought.

SHOWS:
March 15th, 16th, 17th, at 8.00 pm
March 18th at 2.00 pm
Merrickville Community Center on Read St


Tickets here:
Brewed Awakenings, Mrs. McGarrigle's Fine Foods, Hair Krew (all Merrickville)

Info or reservations here: T 613 269 3817