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Fall 2018 Our 39Th Season www.thenick.ca Crescent Heights Community Hall • 1101 - 2nd Street N.W. Mailing address: P.O. Box 64244, Thorncliffe PO, Calgary, AB T2K 6J7 Fall 2018 our 39th Season elcome to our 39th anniversary season at the Season’s Passes Nickelodeon! We are bringing back some old friends we’ve not seen for a long time and we have some ter- • There are a limited number of 2018–2019 season pass GOLD Wrific newcomers. Great fun will be had! CARDS still available. Send a query to [email protected] for up-to-date information. The home of the Nick is the Crescent Heights Community Hall (1101 - 2nd Street NW). Seating is first-come first serve with the The Nickelodeon thanks all the returning GOLD CARD hold- following exception: season’s ticket holders who arrive early ers for supporting the club once again. We also warmly welcome those who have purchased a GOLD CARD for the will be given preferential admission from 6:50–7:00 P.M. Our ticket capacity is 193 patrons, and up to 110 are season’s ticket first time. GOLD CARD holders are reminded that your season’s passes are transferable if you cannot attend a holders (we are not sold out yet). Concerts begin at 7:30 P.M. performance. with the doors opening at 7:00 P.M. Online Ticket Sales An evening at the Nick begins with an opening act, followed by two sets by our featured performer. Breaks between sets allow • ALL 2018 concerts will go on sale September 7 and all time for socializing and indulging in great cakes, popcorn and January to April 2019 concerts will go on sale December 15 at other refreshments. www.brownpapertickets.com. Tickets are $25; service charges are applicable. Guitar Raffle! The Nick will once again conduct a raffle for a guitar, generously donated by Mike MacLeod and The Acoustic • Tickets are available at the door only if we are not sold out in Guitar. Tickets will be sold throughout the season and our Nick advance. Any remaining tickets will be sold first come, first performers will autograph the guitar. The draw for this one- serve at the Crescent Heights Hall on the night of the show. of-a-kind guitar will be held on April 6, 2019. Once again, this year proceeds from the Nickelodeon Guitar Raffle will support The Nickelodeon Music Club is a volunteer operated, non-profit ArtsCan Circle, a registered charity dedicated to linking creative organization. The Nick wishes to thank its volunteers for the artists with Indigenous youth at risk. countless number of hours they dedicate. Without their work, these special nights would not be possible. Ringtone Free Music! We appreciate the cooperation of patrons and volunteers in silencing their cell phone ringtones and minimizing phone use while at the club to ensure everyone’s Social Media enjoyment of our performances. Facebook: NickelodeonMusicClub The Nickelodeon wishes to thank Calgary Arts Development, the Twitter: @NickMusicClub Alberta Foundation for the Arts and SOCAN Foundation for their generous support. We also wish to acknowledge airplay support Instagram: thenickfolk of our performers on CKUA and CJSW. The Performers Trent Se vern (Ontario) September 29 First Nick Headline October 2015 Canadian folk trio Trent Severn sing contemporary songs about our nation’s people and places with humour, humanity and heart. Their trademark vocal blend and stripped down approach to modern life in Canada has landed hundreds of festival and series appearances and the honour of singing an original arrangement of Oh Canada on Parliament Hill for the Canada Day flag-raising. Comprised of Dayna Manning (guitar/banjo), Emm Gryner (bass), and Lindsay Schindler (fiddle), Trent Severn is a two-time Canadian Folk Music Award nominated group, and the members have four Juno nominations among them. They are known for their collaborations with musicians and non-musicians alike, including the RCAF Snowbirds, The Rheostatics, and Wiarton Willie to name a few. They are lucky enough to count Astronaut Chris Hadfield and legendary Guess Who frontman Burton Cummings as fans. Trent Severn can’t help but connect people and lift them up in the process. Mark Perry (British Columbia) First Nick opener Oct ‘02 Mark Perry has just released his 11th album, Right Here. Born in Smithers BC, his music and stories take you on a journey through his love of rural Canada; With songs that extol the virtuous beauty from the triumphs of playing hockey on frozen lakes, to the excitement of “of Canada’s natural landscape, odes to the a spring thaw when rivers rise and bluebirds return and you’re finally peda- colourfully unique characters of the nation’s ling your bike again. He also tells the tougher stories of our collective past past and present, and a true passion for & present: the legacy of our Japanese internment camps, the sinking of a telling stories about their home and native passenger ferry in the middle of the night, or the tragedy of First Nations land, Trent Severn has become an important people who go missing from our communities. emotional and cultural touchstone, Music Life Magazine “ Laura Love (Washington) October 27 First Nick Headline April 1994 After taking nearly a decade off, to live off-grid, grow her own food, and raise her daughter, Laura exploded back onto the 2017 festival scene. With her stellar guitarist, Terry Hunt, she showcased a whole new batch of songs that left audiences leaping to their feet, mid-set. She has expanded her story-rich, socially conscious repertoire to include field hollers, civil rights era songs and gospel music into her deep catalogue of original songs. Media have struggled to define this inimitable musician’s colorful style, which embraces bits of the blues, bluegrass, jazz, folk, gospel, reggae, and country. Laura has sometimes called her music “folk-funk,” “Afro-celtic,” or “hip-alachian.” Regardless of how she is described, Laura has an indisputable and uncanny knack for enthralling audiences from all walks of life, from octogenarians who line up to hear straight-ahead bluegrass to the pierced-and-tattooed set to their middle-aged parents. Shaye Zadravec with Tim Leacock (Alberta) A Nickelodeon Debut! Shaye has released a debut EP, Norway. She sings with an ease and comfort that washes over the listener. She’s not a singer-songwriter, she’s an inter- (Laura Love) will shake the world. The preter, a singer of songs. Her talent as a vocal interpreter is apparent on “clincher is her live show…She’s that rare her pleasing cover of Dear Elvis, a song by Cris Cuddy. The gentle tribute to artist who can slip from sensitive folk to hip- The King takes on an extra resonance with a female voice, especially one as hop without skipping a beat. Utne Reader easy on the ear as Zadravec’s. Shaye will be backed by Tim Leacock, a famil- ” iar face at the Nick, having backed Tom Phillips, Tim Buckley and Catherine MacLellan among many others. Lennie Gallant (Prince Edward Island) November 10 First Nick Headline March 1997 Lennie Gallant has recorded eleven albums which have won him a host of awards and nom- inations from the JUNOs, East Coast Music Awards, and Les Prix Eloizes. He was recently honored with the Canadian Folk Music Award for Artist of the Year. He is the 2017 East Coast Music Awards Entertainer of the Year and also won the 2017 ECMA Folk Recording of the Year for his live album, Searching For Abegweit. His album, When We Get There was nominated for a Juno Award and went up to the International Space Station with Canadian astronaut Julie Payette. Inducted into the Order of Canada it was said: “Songs like Peter’s Dream, Island Clay, Man of Steel and The Hope for Next Year, articulate the feelings of many caught up in desperate situations beyond their control, and at the same time celebrate the beauty of lifestyle and landscape with their strong poetry and stirring narratives.” Robbie Bankes (Alberta/Norway) First Nick opener Apr ’13 with Ida Red Robbie Bankes’ debut LP Foothills was nominated for Young Performer of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards. The Nordic Canadiana song- writer and scholar of folk music spends half his time in his native Calgary, Compelling melodies and acoustic Alberta and the other in Rauland, Norway where he studies folk music at “arrangements that focus the listener’s the University of South East Norway. He carries with him a mature musical attention on some of the finest narrative voice in every sense. With a deep respect and understanding of musical lyrics this prolific songsmith has written… traditions, his modern approach combines the lushness of Fleet Foxes and Toronto Star ” a haunting delivery reminiscent of Sam Amidon, while achieving a distinct sound rarely found on first recordings. www.thenick.ca Laila Biali (New York) November 24 A Nickelodeon Debut! Laila has won National Jazz Awards as SOCAN Composer of the Year and Keyboardist of the Year. Tracing Light, received a JUNO nomination for Best Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. She has played some of the world’s most prestigious venues like Tokyo’s Cotton Club and Carnegie Hall. She’s toured with Grammy award winners Paula Cole and Suzanne Vega and recorded with Sting. Laila Biali is an eclectic-but-focused album. Choice covers include Randy Newman’s I Think It’s Going to Rain Today, Coldplay’s Yellow and the album closer, David Bowie’s Let’s Dance. It’s catchy and sophisticated, where melodies take thrilling left turns and pre-chor- uses give way to instrumental interludes.
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