Friday, September 10th, 2010
7:30pm
$25.00

Like all great and genuine artists, Fred Eaglesmith lets his muse call the tune on his 18th album, Cha Cha Cha. And this time out it’s the big beat of rock’n’roll.

And it is not only rock’n’roll, though that is at the heart of this collection of reflections on the always fertile subject of love by one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriter of our day. With his usual creative panache, Eaglesmith splashes the style with such colors as 1950s movie music, soulful backing vocals, dance rhythms and more.  He reconfigures one of the most potent essences of popular music into something all his own as well as both timeless yet urgently contemporary.

Eaglesmith has followed his muse and the music to wherever it takes him since he left the family farm at age 15 to pursue the hitchhiking and freight-hopping trail of a traveling troubadour. As a result he has forged one of the most distinguished and unique independent careers in popular music from the grassroots upwards, marked by a consistent string of critical superlatives for his work. And now after being a leading light in both the new folk and Americana movements, Eaglesmith stays at the cutting edge of the musical zeitgeist to help spark a rock’n’roll renewal. “I still want to be vibrant and I still want to be on fire and I still have passion,” he asserts. “I don’t ever wanna stay in the ghetto.”

His restless and relentless muse has already earned Eaglesmith a singular and impressive legacy of achievements. Over the years the Juno Award-winning artist has had his music used in films by Martin Scorsese, James Caan and Toby Keith, scored a hit #1 on the bluegrass charts (“Thirty Years of Farming,” recorded by James King), and had his songs included in the curriculum at two colleges. His fans are so devoted that he is the host and centerpiece of a number of music festivals in the U.S. and Canada as well as inspiring the Roots on the Rails rolling music fests and hosting a number of its excursions, plus now in 2010 hitting the high seas with the shipboard Fred Eaglesmith Atlantic Adventure. A popular live attraction in clubs and festivals across North America, Eaglesmith also enjoys fervent followings in Europe and Australia.

Yet for all his plaudits and accomplishments, Eaglesmith continues to stay true to his own populist path as an entertainer. “Yes, I get all these accolades and everything. And we’re cooking eggs in the RV when we’re on tour,” he notes with a wry chuckle. “Which to me is really fantastic, because that makes me loosen up and be able to write the songs. What a great place my life is in now. Alan Jackson is singing my song, and we’re going to start staying in RV parks. I love that. As I get more into the mainstream my lifestyle gets more and more away from it.”

www.fredeaglesmith.com

Saturday, September 11th, 2010
7:30 pm
$25.00

Featuring:  Margot Sampson, Paul Barrett, Georges Hebert, Jeff Goodspeed, DannySutherland, Tom Roach, Lucille Benoit, & Lynda Rosborough.

Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is anAmerican singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffinwrote more than two dozen hits duringthe 1960s, many of which have becomestandards; as a singer, her albumTapestry topped the U.S. album chart for15 weeks in 1971 and remained on thecharts for more than six years.

King was most successful as a performerin the first half of the 1970s, although shewas a successful songwriter long beforeand long after that.  She had her first #1hit as a songwriter with Gerry Goffin.  In1997 she co-wrote "The Reason" withCeline Dion.

Saturday, September 18th, 2010
7:30 pm
Adults $20.00   
Students $15.00

There's nothing predictable about DWIGHT DEON. A charismatic front man who is as diverse and insightful as the music he writes, Dwight combines pop singer/songwriter sensibilities with early "arena rock" roots and churns out a sound that is both familiar and satisfying, yet refreshing and new. His debut full length album “Anthems for the Restless” (Sound Of Pop/FontanaNorth/Universal) is an unforgettable collection of songs, the culmination of which tell a compelling personal and musical journey. A journey that took him from humble beginnings as an east coast lobster fisherman, to the top of Canada's mainstream music & entertainment industry as a former Canadian Idol finalist, in the summer of 2007.

After the TV show, Dwight returned home a changed man and got to work on new material. Though he was an experienced and accomplished musician and performer, before the TV show, Dwight now felt huge amounts of pressure from fans and the industry to deliver something significant. It was a project who's scope was way bigger than anything he'd ever tackled before, and it took the generosity and kindness of his former recording arts teacher, Terry Pulliam (Sloan, Buck 65), to get him focused on the task at hand. Seeing the need for a real creative sanctuary, Terry offered up his studio (Sound Market Recording) for several months so that Deon could write and record without any distractions.

What ensued was a grueling recording schedule, filled with long days and nights, an almost obsessive compulsive attention to detail and countless hours of re-writes, in order to achieve the sonic and artistic watermark Deon had set for himself and the band. Joined by his friends and band mates, Adam Driscoll (Electric Violin), Aran Hill (bass) and Q. (Drums), Dwight was able to put together a timeless, memorable and heartfelt album that took him back to his roots as an east coast pop-rocker, far removed from the spotlight of mainstream hype. This time, he was making it on his own terms.

Deon’s debut single, Volume, was released to radio stations across Canada in August 2009, and hit #6 on the East Coast Countdown and #66 on Mediabase’s National Active Rock Charts and his second single "What I Am", released to radio in April 2010, recently hit #3 on The East Coast Countdown and has received extensive airplay, nation-wide.

With the support of a world-wide publishing deal with Sound of Pop/OLE, an east coast fall tour currently in the works, Deon and Co. are set to unveil “Anthems For The Restless” to their audience at large. It was released on October 27th through Sound of Pop/Fontana North/Universal Music Canada and has already been well received by fans and critics alike.

http://www.dwightdeon.com

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
7:30 pm
$20.00

Matthew Barber is an acclaimed singer-songwriter hailing from Toronto, Canada. A fixture on the Canadian music scene over the last five years, Barber has released three records and an e.p. and toured extensively across Canada and abroad, making inroads into Europe, Australia and now the United States. His sound is largely influenced by the tradition of folk-rock and country singer-songwriters like Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Hank Williams, Leonard Cohen and Bruce Springsteen, but also by years of immersion in contemporary indie-rock as a college radio d.j. The one constant in Barber's songwriting is his knack for a memorable hook (perhaps owing to his enduring love of the Beatles), and in this way he has carved out a unique sound that often defies categorization.

Barber burst onto the scene in 2003 with the release of his much-loved indie-debut Means and Ends and attracted the attention of Warner Music Canada. He subsequently released the e.p The Story of Your Life (2004) and his major-label debut Sweet Nothing (2005) on Warner and saw commercial success with the singles 'We're Gonna Play' (2004), and especially 'Soft One' (2005) which has remained a staple at Canadian radio since it's release. All this time Barber toured back and forth across Canada, mostly with his band The Union Dues but often as a solo performer as well. Notable long-time members of the Union Dues include bass-player Julian Brown who went on to record and tour with Feist and Apostle of Hustle; drummer Joel Stouffer who now plays in the U.K.-based Dragonette; bass-player Matt McQuaid who now plays with electro-rockers Holy Fuck; and drummer Kieran Adams who still plays with Barber as well as with Sarah Harmer, among others. Highlights of this period include national tours with The Joel Plaskett Emergency and Matt Mays and El Torpedo, and solo tours with the likes of Chris Isaak and Buck 65. Sweet Nothing was picked up by Rounder Records in Europe in 2007 and Barber had the opportunity to tour solo throughout Ireland, the UK, Netherlands and Germany.

True Believer is the latest release from Toronto-based singer-songwriter Matthew Barber. For this, his fourth full-length album and follow-up to the internationally acclaimed and Juno-nominated record Ghost Notes (2008, Outside Music), Barber enlisted producer Howie Beck (Hayden, Jason Collett) to man the helm. The result has been an artistic alchemy that takes Barber’s trademark melodies to new heights.

www.matthewbarber.com