nickelodeon Music Club Crescent Heights Community Hall - 1101 - 2nd Street N.W. Mailing address: P. O. Box 63016, Stadium RPO Calgary, AB T2N 4S5 30th Season: Winter 2010 elcome to the 30th anniversary season at the Nick! Tickets Thirty years of concerts has meant a lot of exceptional • For up to date information about any of the club dates, please performances. To help us celebrate, we will be bringing call the Nick Hotline at 403.284.5440. Wback many old friends whose songs have delighted us over the years, • Our 2009-2010 season’s pass GOLD CARDS are sold out. along with some very special newcomers. GOLD CARD holders are reminded that your season’s The home of the Nickelodeon is the Crescent Heights Community passes are transferrable if you cannot attend a performance. Hall (1101 - 2nd Street NW). Seating is first come, first served with • 2010-2011 31st Season Nickelodeon GOLD CARDS will the following exception: season’s ticket holders who arrive early will sell for $204.00. Please see the last page for details about be given preferential admission from 7:20 - 7:30 P.M. Our ticket how we will conduct our season ticket sales. capacity is 193 patrons, and 100 are season’s ticket holders. Concerts begin at 8:00 P.M. with the doors opening at 7:30 P.M. Online Ticket Sales • $20 Advance Tickets for ALL January to April 2010 concerts An evening at the Nick begins with an opening act, followed by will go on sale DECEMBER 15 at pumphousetheatres.ca two sets by our featured performer. Breaks between sets allow time for socializing and indulging in an entree, great cakes, • Additional $20 Advance Tickets are also available two weeks popcorn and other refreshments. prior to the show. Tickets will go on sale Sundays at 10:00 a.m. at: Highlander Wine and Spirits (SW corner of 16 Ave. & 19 Guitar Raffle! The Nick is once again conducting a raffle for a Bristol BD-16 St. N.W.) In person cash sales only at this outlet. Dreadnought guitar and wall hanger, generously donated by Mike MacLeod and The Acoustic Guitar. Tickets will be sold throughout the season and our Please - no phone calls. Nick performers will autograph the guitar. The draw for this one-of-a-kind • $20 Door Tickets are only available if we do not sell out in guitar will be held on April 10, 2010. All proceeds from the Nickelodeon advance. Any remaining tickets will be sold first come, first Guitar Raffle will be used to send youth participants to the Foothills Acoustic served at the Crescent Heights Hall on the night of the Music Institute camp in May 2010. An advance draw for two Calgary show. Flames tickets, donated by Nexen, will be held on January 23. Cell Phone Free Music! The Nick is a cell phone free venue. We appre- The Nickelodeon Music Club is a volunteer operated, non-profit ciate the cooperation of our audience and volunteers in abiding by this organization. The Nick wishes to thank its volunteers for the policy and trust that it keeps the ‘atmosphere’ even more pleasant. Coffee countless number of hours they dedicate. Without the work of our and tea drinking patrons are encouraged to bring their own mugs. volunteers, these special nights would not be possible. The Nickelodeon wishes to thank Calgary Arts Development and the 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 Bill Bourne & Madagascar Slim (Alberta / Ontario) JanuAry 9 Bill Bourne, First Nick Headline, Mar. ‘80 Bill and Slim have created a new CD that includes the mystical strains of Malagasy Salegy with Sweetgrass in Sangisangi through to Blue Eyed Moggie, which features Bill playing the Ektar and Slim’s uncontested screaming blues rock guitar style. The spooky Spike Island Raga features Bill on electric slide and scat vocal, while Slim’s beautiful nylon string guitar touch floats effortlessly. Randriamananjara Radofa Besata Jean Longin, known to us as Madagascar Slim, combines the influences of Salegy, Madagascar dance music, with the guitar mastery of Jimi Hendrix and B.B. King. Bill Bourne’s roots in the blues go very deep indeed as have his legendary collaborations with Alan MacLeod, Shannon Johnson, Eivor Palsdottir and most recently, Bop Ensemble. With 12 Juno Award Nominations and 6 Juno Award wins between them, Bill and Slim love to rock out as much as they love to paint beautiful musical pictures with their free and fluid song interpretations. Kate Reid (British Columbia) A Nickelodeon Debut! Kate Reid’s latest CD, I’m Just Warming Up showcases a whip smart wordsmith with a knack for candid story-telling and songwriting that is charged with humour and social-political commentary. A straight shooter but definitely not straight, she is as charming as she is in-your-face and is one of the most original, incisive and entertaining songwriters to appear on the scene in a long “Bourne flows with this almost indescribable soul infused with a time. Taken together with her charismatic stage presence and comical banter lonesome strain of blues... This man was put on this earth to play between songs, Kate puts on a show that leaves audience members shedding music.” - Crossroads Magazine - Tucson, AZ tears of recognition one minute and rolling in the aisles with laughter the next. Christine Lavin (New York) (The Nick’s 30th Birthday Party) JanuAry 23 First Nick Headline, Jan. ‘89 Christine Lavin’s witty songs, hilarious on-stage presentation and irreverent attitude have enlivened the folk scene for more than 20 years. Abundantly clever to unabashedly fond of a good laugh, she has become the wry musical voice of the post-Boomer, pre-Gen X generation. Her song Amoeba Hop received the stamp of approval from The International Society of Protistologists. Christine also hosts knitting circles backstage prior to each performance. With album titles like Good Thing He Can’t Read My Mind, What Was I Thinking? and Getting in Touch With my Inner Bitch, Christine has continued her exploration of the perils of romance. Her latest CD Cold Pizza For Breakfast: A Mem-Wha?? was released in 2009. Over the years, Ms. Lavin has developed a reputation as an especially charming live performer. Christine interacts with her audience, often teasing them in her charmingly self-effacing manner and they in turn help her present some great performances. Trina Nestibo (Alberta) A Nickelodeon Debut! Trina Nestibo’s debut CD, Someday: So Far offers spirited music that infuses flavours of rock, soul, country and blues to create a sound that is truly her own. She writes meaningful songs about real life and experiences, drawing on her prairie roots, love for simple pleasures and flat-out appreciation for life. Gritty. Ethereal. Soulful. ““Lavin knows how to keep her audience guessing, Trina’s signature voice is truly an instrument unto itself. At home on the stage, this thinking and laughing at the same time.” no-nonsense woman captures listeners instantly with her heartfelt honesty, story- - Washington Post telling, and contagious energy. Trina accompanies herself skillfully on acoustic guitar, squeezebox and piano, with her bare feet stomping every step of the way. The Amos Garrett Jazz Trio (Alberta) February 6 Amos, First Nick Headline, Jan. ‘06 Amos recorded with Anne Murray and gave the world Snowbird, played the classic solo on Keith, 1st Nick Opener with Clan Terra, Feb. ‘02 Maria Muldaur’s Midnight at the Oasis and was a member of Paul Butterfield’s legendary band Better Days. He won a Juno Award for The Return of the Formerly Brothers with the late Doug Sahm and pianist Gene Taylor. Amos has a wicked dry sense of humour and understated guitar licks that sound simple but need 40 years of hard work to pull off with the class that he always delivers. His latest CD is Get Way Back - A Tribute to Percy Mayfield. The Amos Garrett Jazz Trio offers small group, bop-tinged jazz, with guitarist Keith Smith, inspired by the likes of Charlie Hayden and Bill Frizell with a bit of Kenny Wheeler thrown in, and Greg Carroll on stand-up bass. Amos calls his Jazz Trio “a very melodic guitar extravaganza, Monk, Miles, and very accessible.” The Stray Dawgs (Alberta) Al, 1st Nick Opener with North Wind Mar. ‘82 The Stray Dawgs are Al LaMonaca on guitar, Bruce Leinan on violin and fiddle (they’re really two different instruments), ‘Tess Bassie on string bass and Brad Lindberg on 5-string banjo. They have an eclectic focus, depending on who’s available. Primarily a bluegrass band, when the banjo player is awol, “one of the most lyrical and original guitarists playing as is typical of banjoists, the remaining players have been known to slip into today...his single note solos and melodic figures are so western swing, and even gypsy jazz! Featuring plenty of hardcore traditional distinctive that it is virtually impossible to mistake bluegrass, some twists on contemporary country stringband tunes, and with a them for anyone else’s.” Guitar Player Magazine few originals thrown in, The Stray Dawgs bring a fresh take to a familiar sound. www.thenick.ca Nick Hotline 403.284.5440 3 in 1 night! (Ontario / Ontario / Alberta) February 20 Tannis Slimmon Jory Nash Steve Pineo First Nick, Apr. ‘04 First Nick, Mar. ‘06 First Nick, Feb. ‘95 “....one of the most beautiful “This man has a voice of “He sings well, plays guitar voices I have had the velvet” like he sleeps with the thing, pleasure to listen to” Mary Beth Carty, and writes excellent songs.” David Francey Penguin Eggs Magazine Mike Ross/Edmonton Sun With roots in the ever-burgeoning music scene in A love of traditional Appalachian balladry and the Guitarist and songwriter Steve Pineo has performed Guelph, Ontario, and with a passion for lyrical vocal sounds of acoustic instruments steered Jory towards with a number of well-known local bands including harmonies, Tannis Slimmon has been singing, train songs, work songs, gospel, bluegrass, and other The Alien Rebels, Beautiful Joe, the Co-Dependents songwriting, recording and touring for over 25 years.