Archive for March, 2011

Get out for a great cause! YYC Music 4 Japan wants young Calgarians to help make a difference for Japan in their time of crisis. A fundraiser concert will be held on Saturday, April 9th at The Den on the UofC campus. The night will feature music from Transit and DJ Blair Van Riesen and a raffle draw for prizes from Source Snowboards and Shreds Snow and Skate Shop.

Tickets are a minimum $10 donation at the door and all proceeds will go to the Red Cross for Japan relief.

Find out more about YYC Music 4 Japan on Facebook and Twitter.

What would it sound like if the whole world clapped their hands at the same time? Would it one deafening boom that would shake through our ears and into our heads? Or would it be an irregular rhythm with claps coming in waves chopping at the shores of our tolerance.

What if the world’s hearts were to beat to the same tempo? Would our inspiration be drawn from similar places, or would our love last longer?

Everyone is brought into this world with a different beat, a different bounce in their step, that makes us as human unpredictable and powerful.

If everyone was to pound to the same drum, everything would be much too easy, the fragility of love would be lost without the inconsistency. We hold onto what we can because we never know what the next clap is going to bring in the beat, or the next note will bring in a song.

Beth Branches is that irregularity that holds a power and strength in her music, but with a quiver of fragility that makes her song writing both sacred, and endearing. She sings of lost love, but watching her, and listening to her, you learn all too well that she’s already made a second step and moved on as a talented woman of song.

SHOT AT THE DARK (though located in Los Angeles at the moment) is proud to present Beth Branches, in a three part stroll through the beautiful streets in California:

Thank you all so much for watching. Thank you for all the support.

Thank you to Beth for being a part of the show.

Thank you to Novel Cafe for the connections.

SHOT AT THE DARK is produced by Nicole Irene Dyck, Justin Huculak, Reuben Bullock, and Brock Mitchell.

These two amazing artists will be making their way to the Ironwood!! Come on down CGY!

Sarah Macdougall has been a touring internationally for years with her dynamite songs, blistering guitar chops and astounding voice earning rave reviews and topping major music writers top ten album of the year lists as a songwriter, all the while producing and engineering her own albums. 24 hrs Vancouver called her ‘one of the most promising exports out of Sweden since Abba’ and her album Across the Atlantic (2009) got four star reviews in such notable publications as Q magazine, the Irish Times, No Depression, and many more. Her songs have been chosen for onboard entertainment on Lufthansa airplanes, on TV shows, and she’s been a semi-finalist on the International Songwriting competition with her song Crow’s Lament. She has performed on the Bob Harris show in the UK, has played Canadian and International Festivals, performed with Mary Gauthier, Todd Snider, and Po’Girl among others. Sarah is currently working on her new album, which is scheduled for release in the summer of 2011. (Copperspine Records 2011)

Gordie Tentrees is from the cold and rustic Yukon Territory and writes like a doppelganger of the preeminent Texas storytellers on his third album, Mercy or Sin.  “Alfred” leads off the record, a darkly poignant acoustic tale that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Guy Clark album. (“Walks with a hitch, right side hip, reads a dirt palm, right before he spits, thinks on the rain, hollers for the end, Alfred is old his blood ain’t thin.”) But don’t settle in for a languid country/folk songwriter album, because he brings on resophonic guitar and stomp board on a roaring “No Integrity Man.” He was selected by CBC’s Song Quest in 2009 as one of Canada’s top songwriters and hosted the prestigous SOCANsongwriters circle at the 2009 Western Canadian Music Awards. The song “Mercy or Sin” was a finalist in the 2009 International Songwriting Competition out of 15 000 entries. (www.tentress.ca)

The Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) returns to the Plaza from April 11th to the 17th for another year of genre busting films.  CUFF isn’t your ordinary film fest.  There’s the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat Cereal Cartoon Party, a Ship In and Ship Out documentary screening of the legendary punk/ska/funk heroes Fishbone, as well as the highly anticipated premiere of the Canadian hillbilly gore comedy Tucker and Dale Vs Evil.

Tickets are going fast, but there’s still time to get yours, just go to www.calgaryundergroundfilm.org to see the schedule and full line up of films.

Corbis is holding a casting call to look for people for our next photo shoot in the first week of May as well as for all our future photo shoots.

Corbis is looking for people of all ages, races and body types (including plus size models) who live in Calgary or surrounding area. No experience is necessary.

Date: Friday, April 1, 2011
Time: anytime between 3:30pm – 7:00pm (it will only take a few minutes & no
appointment is necessary)
Location: Evergreen Theatre (Lower Level, Community Arts Building, Currie
Barracks) – 2633 Hochwald Ave. S.W.

Wardrobe: Nice casual. Women should have natural makeup and hair.

Chow Down in Cowtown is an (almost!) weekly account of Calgary’s most awesome eats from Ceci n’est pas un food blog.

Last Monday, I had the honour of being invited to a media event put on by Taste to rub elbows with media types, catch up with old friends and meet new ones, and of course, taste some great eats from their new menu!

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The contest is still open!

Calgary is Awesome and 7FAM have teamed up to give away one pair of men’s and one pair of women’s jeans to our lucky readers!

Show us why you deserve a new pair of 7′s by sending us a photo of you wearing your worst pair of jeans. We want to see the most offensive, ripped-up, disastrous pair of pants that you got. One lucky guy and girl will be chosen to throw away their lame duds for a new pair of 7FAM jeans (retail value $200).

Ruberto Ostberg Gallery
2108 18th Street NW
Saturday March 26, 2011
5:00 – 9:00PM

These guys make some cool stuff. Learn more about Bee Kingdom at www.beekingdom.ca.

The three girls (Erin, Lisa and Katie) who make up clubclub are putting together a community cookbook and “anyone who likes food” is welcome to submit recipes! Send up to three of your favourite recipes to clubclub [at] hotmail.ca. If your recipe gets picked, you’ll be invited to an “epic potluck” this summer, and of course, get to see your recipe in typewritten, coil-bound print.