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Recording the neighbourhood

Posted Sunday, March 7th, 2010 | Comment?

Recording a gang of neighbourhood kids for a new version of “The Gertrudes”, by The Gertrudes. Thanks to all the singers and their families! Next week: a recording session with the Queen’s symphony orchestra.

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Royal Wood and Melissa McClelland at Live Wire

Posted Saturday, March 6th, 2010 | Comment?
Royal Wood with special guest Melissa McClelland
Sat. March 27 8 pm
Octave Theatre - 711 Dalton Ave. Kingston
Tickets $20 in advance and $25 at the door (if available). On sale now at Brian’s Record Option (613 542-2452 for phone orders), Renaissance Music and Tara Foods.
www.livewiremusicseries.ca www.royalwood.ca  www.melissamcclelland.com
Royal Wood’s music has been featured on several TV and movie soundtracks; including the HBO series Regenisis, the CBC series This is Wonderland, the CTV movie Playing House, the film The End of Silence starring Sarah Harmer, and the Warner Music Canada soundtrack to the Food Network’s The Surreal Gourmet (with other artists including Feist, Tom Waits, The Flaming Lips, Moby, Aretha Franklin) and more. ”Wood is on his way to establishing himself alongside the Canadian royalty of artists such as Sexsmith and Wainwright. ” - EXCLAIM MAGAZINE

Melissa McClelland - “It is the timelessness and sheer beauty of McClelland’s voice that holds our hand throughout her spectacular 2009 release “Victoria Day”, courting us with the colour of its countries. Beyond the vintage guitar tones and retro feel of the album, it is Melissa’s classic, ageless, brazenly genre-flouting voice that enraptures. Her impressive on-stage backing vocal history attests to this pure talent; Melissa has been invited to sing with Jesse Cook, Sarah McLachlan, and Luke Doucet, and was the single guest vocal appearance on Blue Rodeo’s lauded Live at Massey Hall (2008).”

 

 

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Clues Playing at The Apple Crisp Music Festival on March 18

Posted Friday, March 5th, 2010 | 1 Comment

An eclectic mish-mash of styles and moods, Clues, (from Montreal), feature the long-time-coming post-Unicorns outfit of Alden Penner, multi-instrumentalists Ben Borden (Les Automates de Maxime de la Rochefoucauld), Lisa Gamble (Gambletron, Evangelista, Hrsta) and Nick Scribner (Chaotic Insurrection Ensemble) centered around the one-time Arcade Fire drummer Brendan Reed. They will be joined by Kingston’s Audiopark, False Face and PS I Love You on Thursday March 18th (8pm @ The Mansion), as part of The Apple Crisp Music Festival.  Free admission.

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The Mansion is always looking for local bands to play!!

Posted Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 | Comment?

It’s been a year of presenting music seven nights a week in our fine live music venue and it is more apparent than ever that local bands combined with touring bands makes for a good mix.  For out-of-towners looking to build a fan base it’s a great opportunity to meet some Kingston musician kin and for local bands looking to play out of town it is a good chance to build those connections.  Please contact us at mansionbooker@gmail.com with your schemes, and dreams.  We can do all ages shows and also have the wine cellar available for shows too.

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Happy Here: The Happiness Project in the House

Posted Monday, March 1st, 2010 | Comment?

More information about The Happiness Project in Kingston, part of the Apple Crisp Music Festival 2010:

Friday March 12 to Saturday March 20th: Daily Exhibits from 4pm - 7pm
#108 Charles Street, Kingston ON

Concert: The Happiness Project (Charles Spearin) w/ The Gertrudes
Saturday March 13th, 7:30pm
Chalmers United Church, 212 Barrie Street
All Ages / Free

The Happiness Project is created to bring art, sound, and a lightness of spirit right into the neighbourhood. This installation creates a space for neighbours from near and far to walk through the doors of a local home and feel truly happy and lightened. The project is based on Charles Spearin’s (of Broken Social Scene and Do Make Say Think) album The Happiness Project, which is a collection of sound recordings of his neighbours’ musings on happiness set to beautiful musical orchestration. Each room in the house is originally designed by an individual or team of artists to reflect and interpret one of the tracks from album. The exhibit features Kingston, Montreal and Toronto based artists.

Come & visit the house.

Presenting rooms created by:
Don Maynard | Jon Claytor | Nicole Aline Legault l Josh Lyon | Marney McDiarmid + Annie Clifford | Jeff Barbeau + Vince Perez | Arron Gibson

Happiness Project Press Release [pdf]

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April 10: Old Man Luedecke @ The Mansion

Posted Monday, March 1st, 2010 | Comment?

Old Man Luedecke w/ Rueben deGroot

Saturday April 10th, 2pm
@ The Mansion (506 Princess Street)
Adults $10 / Students $5 / Children FREE

Old Man Luedecke, is one of Canada’s best loved and most intriguing roots singer-songwriters. “An original, he is a musical singularity to be savoured and shared”, says the Vancouver Folk Festival. His memorable melodies, poetic sense and easy charisma appeal to anyone searching for new growth from old roots.

Rueben deGroot writes country songs for jazz bands.  Six Questions for Rueben deGroot.

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RayJon Artemis IV: The Apple Crisp Interview

Posted Saturday, February 27th, 2010 | Comment?

(If there’s a leading light in the local R&B scene, it’s the Limestone Lothario himself, RayJon Artemis IV. After three platinum albums, four double-platinum singles, and five triple-platinum heart attacks, Mr. Artemis has earned his place in the Kingston pop pantheon.  We were fortunate enough to sit down with Artemis a few weeks before the release of his new album.)

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March 12-20: Apple Crisp Music Festival 2010… Full Program!

Posted Thursday, February 25th, 2010 | Comment?

Holy smokes, just look at all this!  Join us for a full week (+) of concerts and happenings — the full program:

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CFRC Feb 11 fundraiser: the residue

Posted Thursday, February 18th, 2010 | Comment?

Clips from Music Maul, False Face (grand finale with Carlyn Bezic and Michael Davidge, on a Sonic Youth number) and PS I Love You.

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CR Avery & the Legal Tender String Quartet at the Mansion, Friday Feb 19 8pm (all-ages) & 10:30

Posted Monday, February 15th, 2010 | Comment?

Whether performing to thousands at the Royal Albert Hall or the lucky few who made it inside the packed past capacity speakeasy, C.R. Avery is a unique, raw and dynamic performer. His genius lies in many genres - blues, hip-hop, spoken word and rock & roll. He is a one-man band, but one for this generation; with the rare ability to sing poetic verse while beatboxing simultaneously with pounding the piano and adding harmonica like a plot twist. A multi-talented front man for his Legal Tender String Quartet that will appear with him at the Mansion.