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01:15 Kim welcome!
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01:15 Kim http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=567&doc_id=146511&
01:15 Kim Thanks for coming!
01:15 Kim I have been in touch with Richard Goodall of the Richard Goodall Gallery of Contemporary Art about the possibility of exhibiting Leonard’s art here during the time of the event. It sounds like it will very likely be possible.

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The Juno Awards have nominated Serena Ryder for “New Artist of the Year”!!

Rhys Fulber has been nominated in the “Producer of the Year” category for his work on the tracks Weak In The Knees and Just Another Day!!

Don’t forget to watch CTV on Sunday, April 6th to see if Serena takes home her award :)

http://www.serenaryder.com/serena.htm

Serena is our subheadliner, a very exciting artist who will be an important part of the Saturday night show.

Serena Ryder is a Canadian singer/songwriter and guitarist who grew up in Millbrook, Ontario, Canada. Her best-known albums include Unlikely Emergency and If Your Memory Serves You Well.

Ranging musically between folk, roots, country, and adult contemporary, Ryder’s three-octave range is powerful and well beyond her years. She studied in the integrated arts program at Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational Institute in Peterborough, and performed solo as well as with many of Peterborough’s bands as a teenager.

12:59 Server tori (~ellement_@S01060004e218e2fd.ed.shawcable.net) has joined the room
12:59 Kim hi!
01:00 Kim Tomorrow is Tori’s birthday and is officially Family Day in the Province of Alberta. Happy birthday eve, Tori!

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Currently it’s tours/hikes every morning except wednesday/monday. The rest goes basically like this for July 23-28, 2008:

Wed - 2pm registration, afternoon - collage-a-thon, evening - karaoke party
Thursday - Ira Nadel lecture afternoon collage-a-thon, evening - poetry event/open mike
Friday - Afternoon - academic talks (Barbour/Mueller), Cohen film show, evening performances Ann Vriend, Vicky Hynes, Karla Anderson, latenight Clinker and Noel Begin sound, light, and video show
Saturday - afternoon - open mike (covers) including Leonard Cohen Ensemble (Adam Mamula), major event at Winspear, latenight DJ and dancing
Sunday - early afternoon - picnic, afternoon - open mike (cohen-esque), evening - DJ and dancing
Monday - survivor’s breakfast and cleanup, Cliff le Jeune performance (volunteer dinner at 6pm)

Both bus tours and walking tours are being organized.

More details and further fine tuning soon!

“Kate Hammett-Vaughan is the real deal, a talent all Canadians should recognize.”
—Geoff Chapman, Toronto Star

Since moving to Vancouver, BC from her home province of Nova Scotia in 1979, Kate Hammett-Vaughan has established a reputation as one of Canada’s most individual and creative jazz vocalists, and one of the West Coast’s most respected teachers of the art of jazz singing.

Hammett-Vaughan’s ease with all manner of material and her improvisational instincts set her apart from many of her contemporaries. Her highly personal and expressive vocal style incorporates the breadth of her musical interests, from straight-ahead soulful ballads to hard-swinging grooves and improvisational adventures. Her approach is fresh and invigorating, paying tribute to the jazz tradition while interacting and exploring, always seeking to express herself in the moment. Equally at home as a front-line performer or as a member of an ensemble, singing straight-ahead swing or participating in free-improv adventures, Hammett-Vaughan makes sure that what she is performing remains accessible to her audience.

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Twenty-six year old Scotland native Roddy Hart’s mature, self-assured voice is in direct contrast to the songwriter’s youthful appearance. While it typically takes most singer/songwriters considerable time to shape their individual voices and their ability to write with a sense of self, Roddy Hart has done so at a noticeably young age and with relatively little live performance or studio time. One could attribute Hart’s remarkably mature songwriting to his propensity for assimilating his rootsy Americana influences, namely Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Kris Kristofferson, the latter of which has embraced the young songwriter and contributed to his debut release, Bookmarks. Although Hart was predestined to become a musician, it was not until after a five-year stint at law school (which resulted in a first class honors degree) did he focus his efforts on song craft. “I never had any intentions of doing anything other than music, but I just wanted to broaden my horizons – I felt I was too young and unqualified to write about things I hadn’t experienced yet,” Hart says. Like a fine wine, Hart waited to uncork his gifts until they had fully matured, a sense of restraint that is apparent in his vocals.

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Tom Rush is a gifted musician and performer, whose shows offer a musical celebration…a journey into the tradition and spectrum of what music has been, can be, and will become.
His distinctive guitar style, wry humor and warm, expressive voice have made him both a legend and a lure to audiences around the world. His shows are filled with the rib-aching laughter of terrific story-telling, the sweet melancholy of ballads and the passion of gritty blues.

Rush’s impact on the American music scene has been profound. He helped shape the folk revival in the ’60s and the renaissance of the ’80s and ’90s, his music having left its stamp on generations of artists. James Taylor told Rolling Stone, “Tom was not only one of my early heroes, but also one of my main influences.” Country music star Garth Brooks has credited Rush with being one of his top five musical influences. Rush has long championed emerging artists. His early recordings introduced the world to the work of Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne and James Taylor, and in more recent years his Club 47 concerts have brought artists such as Nanci Griffith and Shawn Colvin to wider audiences when they were just beginning to build their own reputations.

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12:57 Server tori (~ellement_@S01060004e218e2fd.ed.shawcable.net) has joined the room
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12:57 Kim You met Tom Green!
12:58 tori Hi Kim
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