by Kelly Babcock
Wednesday, September 2nd, at 9PM, at Jazzmyn's 261 9th Street E come on down to the open mic jam. Our Shotgun Wedding will be hosting the open mic, and guess what?!?!? It's LAUREN JEWELL'S BIRTHDAY!! So come on down and join in on all the fun at a very special open mic extravaganza
Wednesday, September 2nd, at 9PM, at the Avalon Jazz Lounge & Patio, 229 Ninth Street E., it's Alexander's Ragtime Jam. We've got charts. All you need to do is bring an instrument. Come enjoy the Jazz and hospitallity that is Owen Sounds very own Avalon Jazz Lounge & Patio
Thursday, September 3rd, From 7PM til Midnight, at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 6, at 1450 2nd Avenue W, Join an array of the area's finest musicians for the " Power Of Love" Fire Relief Benefit, a musical celebration to raise funds for those impacted by recent fires in Owen Sound. ALL proceeds will be donated to United Way to benefit ...
by Kelly Babcock
Thursday, September 10th, 9PM 'til 11PM, West5 at the Avalon Jazz Lounge & Patio, 229 9th Street E., Come hear jazz standards performed by the area's best youth ensemble. Admission: Pay what you can
Friday, September 11th, from 4PM to 6PM, at The Bleeding Carrot, 945 Main St., join host Kelly Babcock of Hot Black Coffee for the Friday Afternoon Coffee House & Open Mic. Bring your voice, your instrument (guitar, mandolin, and piano available for use), your ears, or all three and either entertain us, enjoy the entertainment, or do both. Admission is free, come enjoy the Bleeding Carrot's hospitality
Friday, September 11th, from 9PM 'til 11PM, at the Avalon Jazz Lounge & Patio, 229 9th Street E., ET Rhino. Put on your dancing shoes, for the ever so popular electric jazz funk band is ...
source: Media Release
The Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library is thrilled to announce that two local artists will jointly hold the position of Owen Sound Poet Laureate for the next term. Rob Rolfe and Larry Jensen have been appointed Owen Sound Poets Laureate 2015 to 2017. "It was very heartening to have five other strong submissions from all over the region," said former Poet Laureate Liz Zetlin. "Larry Jensen and Rob Rolfe have the most impressive combination of experience and vision for the Poet Laureate project," she said.
The Owen Sound Poet Laureate is chosen by the Poet Laureate Advisory Committee. Zetlin, who chairs the three-member committee, said that at first they had some reservations about accepting a joint application. "Having two poets laureate is unprecedented," she said. "We agreed to consider Rob and Larry as a duo only if their combined application reflected something truly unique. And then they blew us away and we had no doubts."
Rolfe and Jensen plan to expand on a collaboration that began about two years ago, developing projects that fuse the spoken word, songs, lyrics and poetry with instrumental music to explore working class stories of Grey-Bruce/Owen Sound, Mudtown and beyond. "We're very pleased because we had an idea of what we wanted to do," said Rolfe.
by Kelly Babcock
Thursday, August 27th, 8:30 'til 10:30 at The Avalon Jazz Lounge, 229 9th St. E., Bobby Dean Blackburn is back, by popular demand! Straight in from County Bruce, the Huron Shore's best known blues man hits the Avalon for an early show. Rumor has it that the great Earl Georgas will be joining Bobby Dean on drums. This is one show you don't want to miss! Admission: Pay what you can
Friday, August 28th, 4PM 'til 6PM at the Bleeding Carrot at 945 Main St. presents the Friday Afternoon Coffee House & Open Mic hosted by Kelly Babcock of Hot Black Coffee. Come on out and take part in the fun, bring your guitar, your banjo, your fiddle, or play our piano. Make some music or present some poetry or just relax with a cup of the Carrot's coffee or a smoothie, and listen ...
By Kelly Babcock, Hub Staff
I busted my back. I broke my truck. I wore out a good pair of gloves, busted a couple of screw gun bits and tore my jeans.
I got up at 3:45AM on Saturday August 15th to start moving stage trailers from storage to the park so that we wouldn't bother anyone, wouldn't inconvenience the commuters on our already construction congested streets this year.
I worked eight and ten hour days to bring things safely across town and then assemble them. I watched as dozens more volunteers did the same things I did, worked the same odd hours I worked, made fast the things that were loose, made do with the things that could have been better, and made right the things that needed repair.
And as things came together and as things got done and as the time grew closer, little by little, the glibly painted timber frames and plywood floors took on the aura of completeness and even the appearance of strength and the look of festival.
And then Summerfolk opened and ...
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