nickelodeon Music Club Crescent Heights Community Hall - 1101 - 2nd Street N.W. Mailing address: P. O. Box 63016, Stadium RPO Calgary, AB T2N 4S5 www.thenick.ca 34th Season: Fall 2013 elcome to the 34th anniversary season at the Nick! Tickets We will host some old friends along with some ter- • Our 2013-2014 season’s pass GOLD CARDS are sold rific newcomers and we’ll feature nominees for the out. The Nickelodeon thanks all the returning GOLD WCanadian Music Awards which will be presented in Calgary CARD holders who are supporting the club once again. this fall. The home of the Nickelodeon is the Crescent Heights We also warmly welcome those who have purchased a Community Hall (1101 - 2nd Street NW). Seating is first-come GOLD CARD for the first time. GOLD CARD holders first serve with the following exception: season’s ticket holders who are reminded that your season’s passes are transferable if you arrive early will be given preferential admission from 6:50 - 7:00 cannot attend a performance. P.M. Our ticket capacity is 193 patrons, and 110 are season’s ticket Online Ticket Sales - Updated holders. Concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. with the doors opening at • New Online Vendor for 2013. 7:00 p.m. $25 Advance Tickets for ALL 2013 concerts went on sale SEPTEMBER 13 and ALL January to April 2014 concerts will go on An evening at the Nick begins with an opening act, followed by sale DECEMBER 13 at www.brownpapertickets.com two sets by our featured performer. Breaks between sets allow Advance Ticket Sales At The Nick time for socializing and indulging in an entree, great cakes, Starting at our first club on September 28, and at each club popcorn and other refreshments. • thereafter, Nick patrons may purchase advance tickets for Guitar Raffle! The Nick will once again conduct a raffle for a Bristol BD-16 any of our upcoming fall shows. Dreadnought guitar and wall hanger, generously donated by Mike MacLeod and The Acoustic Guitar. Tickets will be sold throughout the season and our Nick • $25 door tickets are only available if we do not sell out in performers will autograph the guitar. The draw for this one-of-a-kind guitar advance. Any remaining tickets will be sold first come, will be held on April 5th , 2014. All proceeds from the Nickelodeon Guitar first serve at the Crescent Heights Hall on the night of the Raffle will be used to send youth participants to the Foothills Acoustic Music show. Institute camp in May 2014. The Nickelodeon Music Club is a volunteer operated, non-profit Smoke Free / Cell Phone Free Music! The Nick is a non-smoking organization. The Nick wishes to thank its volunteers for the and cell phone free venue. We appreciate the cooperation of our countless number of hours they dedicate. Without the work of our audience and volunteers in abiding by this policy and trust that it volunteers, these special nights would not be possible. keeps the ‘atmosphere’ even more pleasant. https://www.facebook.com/NickelodeonMusicClub The Nickelodeon wishes to thank Calgary Arts Development and the Twitter: @NickMusicClub Alberta Foundation for the Arts for their generous support. We also wish to acknowledge airplay support of our performers on CKUA and CJSW. The Performers Rose Cousins (Nova Scotia) September 28 A Nickelodeon Debut! Rose Cousins’ CD We Have Made A Spark won the 2012 Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year. She has also won two Canadian Folk Music Awards for Best Contemporary Singer. She’s the winner of six East Coast Music Awards, three Nova Scotia Music Awards and three PEI Music Awards. Rooted in authenticity and conviction of voice and the devastating emotions her music evokes, you feel as though Rose Cousins sings for you, about your life. It is that sincerity that leads some to compare Cousins to our most beloved songwriters and yet her passionate delivery is distinctly Rose. From writing songs in a tiny cabin without electricity on a New Hampshire island, to the stage on one of her many international tours; her lone voice reaches out to listeners, all of us surrounded by our own forms of darkness and charges us to have the courage to forge ahead. Steve Pineo (Alberta) First Nick Opener Feb. ‘95 Steve’s songs have been recorded by Paul Brandt and Prairie Oyster. He’s performed with well-known local bands Beautiful Joe, The Co-Dependents and the Joe-Defendants. With Beautiful Joe, Steve appeared on the final episode of The Rita McNeil Show. He performed on a western Canadian tour with Jann Arden and The Huron Carol with Tom Jackson. The Co-Dependents Live Recording Event was #1 at Megatunes for two years. Steve’s solo CD A “Some voices hit you hard from first blush and this is one of them.” Exclaim! Perfectly Good Friendship won a 2001 Prairie Music Award for Outstanding Roots Recording. Steve Pineo’s Blue Monday Trio Volume One-Hardwired for the Blues was released in 2011. Sultans of String (Ontario) October 12 Sultans of String celebrate the release of Symphony! a CD that brings the glorious sound of a full orchestra A Nickelodeon Debut! to their feisty world-jazz compositions. The Sultans are Chris McKhool-violin, Kevin Laliberte-guitar, Eddie Paton-second guitar, Drew Birston-bass and Alberto Suarez-percussion. The Sultans of String were nominated for a 2010 Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year and 2012 Canadian Folk Music Awards for Instrumental Group of the Year, World Group of the Year and Pushing The Boundaries. In 2008 and 2009, they were first place winners in the instrumental category in the International Songwriting Competition. Known for dizzying roots music jams, poly-rhythms and revved up riffs, Sultans of String can’t be pinned down. Sable Island meets the Silk Road, with detours through the Gypsy-Jazz coffeehouses of Eastern Europe, an East Coast Kitchen Party, then over to the majestic Arctic and vibrant streets of Havana. Magnolia Buckskin (Alberta) First Nick Opener Nov. ‘08, Kathy First Opener Nov. ‘83 Magnolia Buckskin released their self-titled debut CD in 2010, offering bohemian cowgirl and gospel-touched, folk roots music. Kathy Cook is a sultry-voiced, multi-instrumentalist inspired by her love of Celtic, folk, roots and country music. Natasha Platt is known for her powerful vocals, her unforgettable melodies and “Energetic and exciting music from a band with her ability to engage an audience. Emily Triggs’ honest, authentic vocals win talent to burn…the very epitome of world music: no fans everywhere she sings her alt-county music. Corry Ulan brings quirky and boundaries, no rules…the sort of band and music that humorous songs performed on banjo and bass. Magnolia Buckskin are four would rip up any festival in the country!” Maverick sublime voices playing refreshing originals that will elevate your soul into the Music Magazine, UK rafters of the nearest saloon. Roy Forbes (British Columbia) October 26 1st Nick headline, Sept. ‘83 A legendary singer, songwriter and guitar player, Roy Forbes has over forty years of touring behind him. From the early days of small coffeehouses and opening act slots with artists like John Lee Hooker, Supertramp, The Earl Scruggs Review and Santana to eventually selling out his own shows and headlining most of the major folk music festivals in Canada, Roy has developed into one of Canada’s best loved acoustic performers. Roy has made a bunch of solo albums plus two with UHF, the “once-in-a-while” group he shares with Shari Ulrich and Bill Henderson. His first album Kid Full of Dreams earned a 1976 Juno nomination and 1998’s Crazy Old Moon got another Juno nomination and won a West Coast Music Award - one of several he’s won over the years. A compelling live performer, Roy’s extraordinary songs have been recorded and performed by many different artists. Chloe Albert (Alberta) First Nick Opener Apr. ‘09 Chloe’s debut CD, Dedicated State won a 2008 Canadian Folk Music Award for Emerging Artist of the Year. She earned a 2nd place prize for her song Honey Bee at the Calgary Folk Music Festival Songwriting Contest. Nashville’s East Side Music Festival songwriting contest, selected her as a top three finalist for her “It has never been anything less than a major pleasure to listen to soulful ballad Tightrope. She sang and played percussion on The Engadine Sessions: new songs by Forbes, a craft-conscious writer who remains one of the Come To The Mountain with Suzie Vinnick, Cara Luft, Kat Danser, Cori Brewster truest troubadours in the Canadian mosaic.” The Toronto Star and Karla Anderson. This spring, Chloe released her sophomore CDDream Catcher and charted #1 on CKUA Radio and #1 on Halifax’s CKDU radio. www.thenick.ca Canadian Folk Music Award Nominees! (from all across Canada) November 9 The mission of the Canadian Folk Music Awards is to celebrate and promote Canadian folk music in 1st Ever Nickleoden Event! all its forms. Until their creation in 2005, no awards existed to celebrate the breadth and depth of folk music in Canada. Awards such as the Junos, East Coast Music Awards or the Western Canada Music Awards have a few categories that apply to folk and roots music but they offer only a restricted view of the genre. The judging process is similar to that of the two-stage elimination model used by the Junos via a randomly selected jury drawn from our community. The Nick is a sponsor for the Best Contemporary Album CFMA.