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Wed Nov 19, 8:30 Big Hall $15
 
(online ticket is $16 plus service charge ...
click on red stub)
(Ticket purchase info) |
The Jimmy Bowskill
Band
Peterborough
The 18-year-old blues
rocker returns to the LMC with his band for a great night of music!!!
Don't miss him. |
Jimmy Bowskill may still be in high school, but
he has proven himself to be one of Canada’s most
prominent mucisians and singers. The 18-year-old
has astounded everyone from The Allman Brothers Band
founder Dickey Betts to ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons and
Canadian icons Colin James and the late Jeff Healey.
His self-titled third
album is evide nce of how this Toronto native is
forging an original blues-rock sound.
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Thu Nov 20, 8pm Front Room
$10
(online ticket is $11 plus service charge...
click on red stub)
(Ticket purchase info)
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Rick Taylor
Bluewater, Ontario
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CD Release Party
Long
regarded as one of Canada’s foremost finger-style
guitarists and songwriters, Rick Taylor is making a
long-awaited return to his native Ontario, after
twenty-three years in Vancouver.
Starting in 1971 with the Mariposa Folk Festival, he
soon became a regular at
many of Canada’s major festivals and venues and was
a stalwart of the early 70’s London folk and roots
music scene. Over the years he has worked with
Leonard Cohen, Colleen Peterson, Stan Rogers, Willie
P Bennett and a host of others.
His
2005 CD release of Clown River; a compilation of
original solo guitar instrumentals caught the
attention of Borealis Records and Rick was invited
to be a featured artist on Six Stings North of the
Border Volume 3, which includes tracks by Harry
Manx, Kevin Breit, Colin Linden and many more.
This is Rick’s first club appearance in London since
moving back to the area .
In
his London Music Club show, Rick will be featuring
songs from his 2008 CD, The Wonky Years; an eclectic
mix of roots, blues, swing, country, rockabilly and
bluegrass. Rick Taylor intoxicates with his high
energy live performances, rich baritone voice,
delicately haunting, well crafted ballads, command
of the blues, and his unforgettable “guitarnastics”.
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Thu Nov 20, 9pm Cellar Lounge
$5 |
Samantha
Hooey, & The Takeoff
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Thu
 Nov
20,
8pm Big Hall
no cover |
"The Spotlight Set"
with
The
Soul Medix
before the Electric
Blues Jam
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... a special one hour performance for
the Great Lakes Blues Society meeting. It's our 7-piece debut - the
original 4 members, plus keys, sax and trumpet!!! You don't want to
miss this one!!! |
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Every Thursday 8pm
Big Hall |
Electric Blues Jam |
 no
cover - All Welcome!!!
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Fri Nov 21, 7pm
Front Room $P.W.Y.C.
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Bliss Express
(8:30), Brendan Glauser (8pm), Siena (7:30) |
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Fri Nov 21, 8pm Cellar
Lounge $10
(online ticket is $11 plus service charge...
click on red stub)
(Ticket purchase info) |
Bernie Gilmore
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Singer-songwriter BERNIE GILMORE returns to the
London Music Club for the launch of his second CD
“OIL BOOM!”. Bernie will be joined by SHAMAN
AYERHART on dobro and mandolin and GERRY FELKER on
bass. “OIL BOOM !“ is a collection of songs and
music written for the “Celebrate 2008” – a
commemoration of 150 years of Canada’s oil heritage.
Bernie’s compositions reflect the joys, struggles
and humour connected with oil discovery and oil boom
in Enniskillen Township in the 1860’s. Bernie’s
song “BLACK GOLD” with haunting chorus “black gold
for miners of oil” describes the passion with which
early oilers worked the mucky soil in search of this
treasure. “Bernie Gilmore has a unique voice
in Canadian music that should be heard by all. The
characters and stories that come alive in his songs
reflect our heritage and culture in an entertaining
way. With His rich baritone voice and his strong
guitar work his shows are not to be missed.” - James
Gordon
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Fri Nov 21, 9pm
Front Room $5
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Stringbone,
Lucas
Stagg, Allison Brown
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String Bone: A
dynamic & moving performer mixing folk, country, pop, blues and
celtic influences into a unique sound. Rootsy, but contemporary,
makes you think like you've heard it before, but can't come up with
anything specific. This time with Dan Henshall on upright bass and
Mary Ashton on violin. Expect other guests. Lucas Stagg
Bio: Rod Nicholson - Scene Magazine: By turns confessional and
narrative, the tunes here are presented in an unadorned performance
and production style that throws their lyrical and melodic content
into sharp relief.
London's Allison
Brown: .....Allison Brown's sweet and powerful singing
expresses her enduring character with a striking honesty.
Framing melodies with well crafted, subtle guitar accompaniment,
her collection of roots classics matched with her own original
repertoire links the present to the past and glimpses the future
with a unique vision.
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Every Friday 9pm Big Hall
($2 cover LMC mbrs. free) |
Acoustyle Open
Mic
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 All Welcome!!! |
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Sat Nov 22, 8:30 Front Room $7
(online ticket is $8 plus service charge...
click on red stub)
(Ticket purchase info) |
Adam Crossley
 Toronto
'wsg
Jamie Beswick
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Meet Adam Crossley,
an acclaimed singer, songwriter and producer. With
comparisons to Coldplay, Sting and Ryan Adams,
Crossley’s melodic voice & thoughtful lyrics are
gaining recognition and anticipation is building for
the release of his first solo record.
In 2005, he began collaborating with producer Asher
Lenz, a well accomplished Canadian music, TV and
film composer, whose credits include co-writing
Andrea Bocelli’s song “Go Where Love Goes”. The
duo was enlisted to work with acclaimed recording
artist, Josh Groban. Their song, “So She
Dances” is featured on Groban’s latest record
“Awake” and it was also this song that Groban
performed on The Oprah Winfrey Show in
November 2006. Additionally, Crossley’s song
“Prisoner” attracted the attention of producers at
NBC’s Law & Order, who featured the track in
the opening teaser of a November 2006 episode of
Law & Order. Reminiscent of artists
such as Norah Jones and Nick Drake, Adam Crossley’s
new album has an enduring sound that is laid-back
and slow burning.
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Sat Nov 22, Big Hall 7p m
$10 adv. / $12 @ door
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'The Viking S wimmers of
1926 Arts Collective
Presents: The White Album
Tribute Show'... 'all 30
songs' will be preformed !!!
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Come
celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Beatles
revolution-ary 1968 double "White Album" here @ the LMC...
performed by a wide variety of performers... will keep you singing,
humming and dancing throughout the evening!!!
Don't miss this once-in-forty-years celebration!!!
The one-and-only Beatles' White Album!!!
click here for full
performance line-up
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Sat Nov 22 9pm doors,
music @ 10pm Cellar Lounge $5
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Los Synco Latin Groove |
Great latin grooves in the Cellar Lounge on a Saturday night... don't
miss it!!!
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Wed Nov 26 8:30 Big
Hall $8 adv./ $10 @ door
(online ticket is $9 plus service charge...
click on red stub)
(Ticket purchase info) |
Sunparlour Players Toronto
wsg
Donnie Ivey
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Sunparlour Players..No question...a MUST SEE! These guys are so intense
while playing kick drums, dobros, banjos, etc. And they sell preserves
with their CDs! Honestly, this is ragtime, footstomp meets Arcade Fire
plus the intense-strained face of Joe Cocker mid-grunt." CBC-Radio 3 -
June, 2007. **an eclectic melange of blues, jazz,
funk, rock, and even
a subtle note of country.
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Every Thursday 8pm
Big Hall |
Electric Blues Jam |
no
cover - All Welcome!!!
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Thu Nov 27, 9pm Front Room $7
(online ticket is $8 plus service charge...
click on red stub)
(Ticket purchase info)
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Ron Leary w/ The CFL
Sessions & Henry Svec
(The Boy From E.T.)
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"exquisite songwriting, which melds rustic
sensibilities with coffeehouse poetics and indie
rock inspirations." Windsor Star
"Ron Leary has crafted a debut album....that
wins on all fronts."Real Detroit Weekly
From
the mind and voice behind Peter Mansbridge and the
CBCs comes a musical docudrama virtually without
precedent. In The Boy from ET’s _Lives the Part_,
Henry A. Svec takes on the role of Henry Thomas, the
actor who has appeared in such films as ET, Cloak
and Dagger, Legends of the Fall, and Gangs of New
York. Not widely known is the fact that Henry Thomas
is Canadian (from Tillsonburg, Ontario), that
Stompin’ Tom is his uncle, that he is a committed
Québécois Separatist, that he wrote many of Broken
Social Scene’s songs, and that he has co-written
poetry with French actor Gerard Depardieu. Listen to
Henry tell these and other true stories as he plays
the songs that record in detail an impossibly
fascinating life.
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Thu Nov 27, 9pm Cellar Lounge $5
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Ciipher &
Paula Perri
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Highly touted for their creative sound and unique
vocals, Ciipher has the ability to not only
captivate people with their musical prowess but
leave them coming back for more with their satiable
riffs, driving bass and percussion. Musical
influences include Tool, Queens of the Stoneage with
a little taste of blues. They probably fall under
the category "alternative" only because there's
really no genre that defines their music.
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Every Friday 9pm Big Hall
($2 cover LMC mbrs. free) |
Acoustyle Open
Mic
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All Welcome!!! |
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Fri Nov 28, 9pm Front Room $7 |
Jarod Parlee wsg
Jim MacDonald
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Sat Nov 29, 7pm Big Hall, $15
adv. / $19 @ door
(online ticket is $16 plus service charge...
click on red stub)
(Ticket purchase info) |
 George
Harrison Remembrance Concert
hosted by:
Yuri George Jan Pool &
The McCartney Years
... and many, many more!
more info at:
www.themccartneyyears.net
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He was the quiet
Beatle, the private Beatle, and perhaps the most
adventurous, introspective and enigmatic of the Fab
Four who broke onto the world rock 'n' roll stage in
the early 1960s. After recovering from lung and
throat cancer, after surviving a brutal knife attack
by an intruder at his home in England, Harrison
finally succumbed to brain cancer on November 29,
2001 at the age of 58.
His credits with The Beatles include the songs,
"Taxman", "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something," the
latter described by Frank Sinatra as the greatest
love song of all time.
Fronted by London rocker Yuri George Jan Pool, an
all-star band featuring the finest musicians from
London including all the members of the nationally
acclaimed production The McCartney Years will
perform George Harrison's finest hits in a 3-hour
"Concert For George".
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Sat Nov
29,
10pm Cellar Lounge $5 |
Rockabilly
Show CD Release for Los Avispas,
with Snow-Heel Slim & The Boogie Infection |
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Sun
 Nov
30,
2 till 5 $3 |
Home
County Folk League OPEN STAGE |
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Sun
Nov
30,
2:30pm $12 Big Hall
(online ticket is $13 plus service charge...
click on red stub)
(Ticket purchase info) |
Matt Andersen
New Brunswick
&
Mike Stevens Sarnia
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New
Brunswick's Matt Andersen has a larger than
life showmanship that has been earning him a
fervent and steadfast audience wherever he
graces the stage. Matt's sprawling blues, roots
and rock musical hybrid with his sorrowing and
soulful voice has sparked a phenomenal buzz on
Canada’s East Coast and that grass roots word of
mouth cannot be contained any longer!
As a solo
entertainer, and with countless world famous
musicians, Mike's journey has taken him across
the globe. With a history taking him to the
deepest roots of traditional bluegrass, Mike has
been a regular at the Grand Ole Opry with the
likes of Jim and Jesse, The Carter Family and
Bill Monroe, to name a few.
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Every Thursday 8pm
Big Hall |
Electric Blues Jam |
no
cover - All Welcome!!!
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Wed Dec
3, 8pm Big Hall $12 adv. / $15 @ door
(online ticket is $13 plus service charge...
click on red stub)
(Ticket purchase info) |
Royal Wood
Toronto
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BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!! Royal Wood
is a Canadian pop music singer-songwriter, based in Toronto, Ontario.
His classic pop style has drawn comparisons to Hawksley Workman, Ron
Sexsmith, Randy Newman and Rufus Wainwright.
His first full length
album “Tall Tales” was something he considered “over the
top pop”. However his second release A Good Enough
Day is melancholic pop-folk with elegant melodies,
accentuated use of strings and guitars, and a sparse use
of other instrumentation.
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Fri Dec
5, 7pm Big Hall $7 |
Sarah Loucks &
Pat Robitaille
  Windsor |
As a songwriter, Sarah hands us tangible
evidence that she has talent to sustain her efforts and ambitions. Her
lyrics are honest and descriptive. Sarah’s rich vocal ability will lead
you to believe that she is well-seasoned beyond her years.
Pat has opened doors, with the
help of a few valued friends along the way, that people continue to
knock on their whole lives. He's had a few pats on the back from
respectable artists along the way, too, including Peter Frampton, Sam
Roberts, Matthew Good, The Beach Boys & Bob Rock. |
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Fri Dec
5, 9pm Front Room $8 |
Richard
 Laviolette
Guelph
wsg
Jenny Omnichord
of the Barnitzvah Brothers
 Guelph |
HISTORY - hey. i live
in guelph, on. i have been for a while i guess, just long enough that i
miss it when i'm gone. i live here and i spend time with folks i enjoy
spending time with and we get up to things. i release some music on
burnt oak and we set up shows and we get up to things.
"Jenny Omnichord" is a solo
side-project of 23 year-old Jenny Mitchell, vocalist, song-writer and
multi-instrumentalist for Guelph, Ontario’s noted young indie band The
Barmitzvah Brothers. In fact, it was the purchase of an omnichord in
Jenny’s father’s thrift store 8 years ago that set her along this path,
its carnivalesque, slightly Hebraic sounds leading two young gentile
girls to pick the somewhat ironic "Barmitzvah Brothers" as the name for
their band. |
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Every Friday 9pm Big Hall
($2 cover LMC mbrs. free) |
Acoustyle Open
Mic
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All Welcome!!! |
Sat
 Dec 6, 7pm Big Hall $10 |
The Boneyard Man |
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Sat
Dec 6, 8:30pm Front Room $5 |
Michal Hasek
 Toronto |
Michal Hasek is returning to London
four decades after being a regular at Smale's Pace and the HUB at UWO.
He has enjoyed a career both as a solo act specializing in free-form
blues and as leader of the band Sundog, a mostly acoustic country-folk
outfit that specialized in vivid story songs and pointed commentary. He
has played on 3 continents and worked with a diverse range of musicians
from T-Bone Walker to Christine Newland (LSO). Hasek is still playing,
still writing and still recording. He has released three albums of
self-penned songs interspersed with blues standards: two in the 70's one
in ‘99. He has a new CD recorded ready for release later 2008. Lately he
has been playing Ontario festivals and clubs with occasional shows
outside the city. He now resides in Toronto with his musical family.
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Sat
Dec 6, 10pm Cellar Lounge $5 |
Jane Carmichael w/
Josh Geddis
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Jane Carmichael is a local
singer/songwriter who will be performing tracks off her debut album, One
Sided. |
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Every Thursday 8pm
Big Hall |
Electric Blues Jam |
no
cover - All Welcome!!!
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Thu Dec 11, 9pm $t.b.a.
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Turn
On The Waterworks
 Stratford
&
Darrelle London
 London
/ Toronto |
Turn on the Waterworks is a
progressive folk duo featuring Stratford, ON brothers Nate and Brent
Meidinger. Their brand of music is unique, with extraordinary attention
paid to instrumentation and the complimentary relationship between two
guitars. The resulting songs are highly atmospheric - a landscape of
peaceful, transcendent melodies. The band's debut full length album,
entitled "The Nature of the Beast", can be ordered online via myspace or
obtaine at one of their live performances.
Darrelle
London is rapidly making her mark on the Canadian indie music scene
with her quirky, catchy piano pop/folk mix. Her true passions are
writing and performing music. Darrelle is classically trained in voice
and piano and has been developing her own fresh brand of piano-pop since
she was thirteen. |
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Fri Dec 12, 9pm Front
Room $10
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There's
nothing out there that sounds like The Good Lovelies -
and that sound is just beautiful...
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Fri Dec 12, 9pm $10 |
Evalyn
Parry &
Tanya Davis
Halifax
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Songwriter, poet and ironic
social commentator evalyn parry is gifted with a sharp pen, a quirky
musical sensibility and a wicked sense of humour. “Equally funny and
dangerous” (CBC Radio), “parry breathes new life into the folk
tradition with her politics, passion and poetry” (Penguin Eggs).
Evalyn’s outspoken, personal and political creations hold out a powerful
vision of social change, while her irreverent wit holds nothing sacred. |
Sat Dec 13,
10pm Cellar Lounge
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The
Cool Mothers
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The
Cool Mothers meld the music spectrum into their own genre. Elements of
funk, soul and jazz come together with the intensity of punk creating a
music that is truly unique and memorable. The Cool Mothers are all
veterans of the local music scene and wield their instruments with the
confidence and joy de vivre of golden gods descended to earth. The band
is currently applying the finishing touches to their debut album “Fall
to Earth,” which is a modern tale of lost innocence, suffering and
redemption. |
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Every Friday 9pm Big Hall
($2 cover LMC mbrs. free) |
Acoustyle Open
Mic
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All Welcome!!! |
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Wed Dec 17,
8:30 Big Hall $12 adv. / $15 door
(online ticket is $13 plus service charge...
click on red stub)
(Ticket purchase info) |
Danny Michel
Guelph
 wsg
Jen Grant
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In the
last year alone, Danny has independently released a DVD/CD (landing him
a Juno nomination for
DVD of the year), produced 4 albums for other artists,
recorded a show for CBC radio, spent 2 months on the road with Stuart
McLean as the Vinyl Cafe's musical guest and somehow, in the midst of
all that, managed to make his best album
yet: Feather, Fur & Fin. Don't miss this
great performer!!! |
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Sat Dec 20, 9pm Big Hall
$5 |
The MacNificents w/ special
guests The Whiskey Sinners
and
opening act Sara Westbrook. |
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Wed Dec 31, 9pm Big Hall
$5
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New Year's Party
w/ the great music of The Comos |
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Every Friday:
Acoustyle Open Mic
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