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Nick 2019 Fall Newsletter 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 2019 our 40th Season elcome to our 40th anniversary season… we are Season’s Passes celebrating by bringing back old friends who have a long history with the Nick along with some terrific • There are a limited number of 2019–2020 season pass GOLD Wnewcomers. 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 • ALL 2019 concerts will go on sale September 1 and all allow time for socializing and indulging in great cakes, popcorn January to April 2020 concerts will go on sale December 15 at and 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 4, 2020. 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 Tri-Continental (Alberta/B.C./Ontario) September 28 First Nick Headline (Bill) March 1981, (Lester) Formed in 1999, Tri-Continental is a one-of-a-kind blues / folk / world music mélange that March 2005, (Slim) January 2010 builds on artistic respect and a deep passion for, and knowledge of the blues. Bill Bourne, Lester Quitzau and Madagascar Slim present a truly unique and critically acclaimed sound that is soulful and present, intense and atmospheric. Individually and collectively, Tri-Continental has received four Juno awards and 10 nominations, a 2018 Album of the Year nomination for Dust Dance at the international Folk Music Awards and 2019 Western Canadian Music Awards nomination for Roots Group / Duo of the Year. Something very special and magical happens when Bourne, the grand improvisor, Quitzau, kidnapper of the blues, and Madagascar Slim, promotor of the Malagasy blues take the stage. Sharing and curiosity leads them on fascinat- ing musical explorations resulting in their infectious sound where world, Celtic, Latin, folk, flamenco, blues and African rhythms fuse into one. Kevin Cook (Alberta) First Nick opener Mar ‘02 From greasy blues to country soul this western Canadian roots artist deliv- ers the real thing. An accomplished guitarist with a signature dusty voice, the real gold is in his lyrics. Cook’s tales of dark beauty tempered with an The thing that makes Tri-Continental so offbeat sense of humour will captivate you. Hard to pigeon-hole, his influ- “ceaselessly compelling is just how damn ences range from Hank Williams to J.J. Cale and everything in between. cohesive the band sounds no matter how He cut his musical teeth in Alberta’s rough and tumble honky-tonks and many musical genres and influences it’s blues bars playing for cowboys, lumberjacks and bikers. In Cook’s words pulling into its brew. Heather Kitching – Roots “It grows a thick hide on you.” His newest CD eventually is being released Music Canada “ this September. The Sojourners (British Columbia) October 12 A Nickelodeon Debut! Formative years spent singing in the churches of Texas, (Marcus Mosely), Louisiana, (Will Sanders) and Michigan, (Khari McClellan) give The Sojourners’ sound an authentic edge that only comes from experience. This is real gospel, blessed with a soul that can’t be faked. Brought together by blues icon Jim Byrnes, from the moment they stepped up to the micro- phone and began singing, they realized that they had something very special going on. When Byrnes dubbed them The Sojourners, the name stuck. This is not music that strives to be polite. In the Sojourners’ universe, echoes of doo wop, R&B, country and blues weave together to create a unique sound that has all but vanished from today’s world. This is gospel music that can take a punch and remain standing. Singing praise music the Sojourners sound just as at home in a road house bar as they do in a revival tent. Ellen Braun (Alberta) A Nickelodeon Debut! Ellen Braun performs both as a solo act and with her band, Trundled. Her song Inchoate, made it to the top 100 in CBC’s 2018 Searchlight. Seized in the embrace of the Rockies, Ellen’s lyrical canvas has stretched to allow The Sojourners draw on influences from her to fervently capture the hearts of audiences as they follow her artistic “the gospel, soul, blues, r&b and country odyssey. Ellen writes songs one wants to both curl up with and spread out traditions, throw them in their own melting in. There’s a warmth and honesty to her storytelling that follows a hard pot, and emerge with a unique sound. worn path carved by Northern songwriters. Her music evokes a beautiful Blues & Rhythm ” and vast landscape with all of its dark truths and hopefulness. Pharis and Jason Romero (British Columbia) October 26 First Nick Headline February 2014 Their heartbreakingly harmonic live show is an ever-evolving and never-ending quest for good songs and beautiful sounds. Pharis & Jason Romero have a classic story. Some scratchy old records and a custom banjo led to their meeting in 2007, and they quickly knew they were in for the long haul. They’ve since released six records and toured across North America and Europe. Their 2015 CD A Wanderer I’ll Stay won a 2016 Juno Award, a Western Canadian Music Award, and was nominated for an International Folk Music Award and four Canadian Folk Music Awards. Their newest CD, Sweet Old Religion, won a 2019 Roots and Traditional Juno Award as well as 2018 Canadian Folk Music Awards for Traditional Singer and Vocal Ensemble of the year. Light, love and time lead the themes, with the duo at the forefront in their most beautiful, grainy, honest and sweet record yet. Madeleine Roger (Manitoba) A Nickelodeon Debut! It is Madeleine Roger’s artistry as a songwriter that can silence a room, uniting her magnetic voice with vivid lyricism and a maturity beyond her years. A former thespian and a lifelong traveler, she is prone to absorb- There’s something ancient and aching ing stories and questioning the way that things are, creating songs with “about the Romeros, a sound that feels like imaginative melodies and honesty that bares truths about being alive. a reverberation from the past, even as the Her debut album Cottonwood combines the elegant storytelling of folk songs are a perfect antidote to this sped-up, traditions with the grounded vibe of roots music. The album portrays her modern world. Sweet Old Religion is reflections on femininity and equality, the majesty of the wilderness, and particularly good medicine. ” No Depression the beautiful awkwardness of trying to love another person. www.thenick.ca David Francey (Ontario) November 9 First Nick Headline January 2000 David Francey is a Scottish-born Canadian carpenter-turned-songwriter. He grew to under- stand the people while working for decades in Toronto train yards, the Yukon bush, and as a carpenter in the Eastern Townships, all the while writing poetry, setting it to melodies in his head and singing it to himself as he worked. A truly authentic folk singer, Francey is a docu- mentarian of the working person who never imagined earning a living from his music. But when he was in his 40s, his wife, artist Beth Girdler, encouraged him to share his songs and sing in public. His first album Torn Screen Door came out in 1999. Since then, he has released eleven albums and won three Juno Awards. In concert David is a singer and a storyteller.
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