Castlemusic / Muskox
Wednesday March 17th, 8pm
The Artel Gallery, 205 Sydenham Street
All Ages / Free

Part of the Apple Crisp Music Festival 2010

Her soothsaying voice is heady like summertime, her sparse arrangements are as icy as February.  Jennifer Castle is returning to Kingston.

The workshop is most suited for ages 9-14 (although all ages are welcome, under 9’s should probably be assisted by a parent). See below for an example of some of the wackiness we will be aspiring to create.

Workshop Host: Josh Lyon, www.akaflk.com, lyon.josh [at] gmail. com (email registration suggested)

A video created by Josh Lyon in collaboration with Entire Cities:

archaeoptepromo - entire cities

entire cities | MySpace Music Videos

An inspiring NFB film my Norman McClaren (Begone All Care, with Oscar Peterson, 1949):

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).”

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.

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]

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.

(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.)

Pick Witherz: Hi, RayJon. Thanks for talking with me.

RayJon Artemis IV: Thank you for thanking me, and for allowing me to allow you to be here.

PW: So tell us about your new album.

RAIV: It’s out in two weeks, and it’s called Roborgasmic Telegram: Funkotronic Lovesauce.

PW: And it’s a concept album?

RAIV: Yeah, it’s all about this futuristic society where robots get deprogrammed and they gotta bone with human beings.

PW: The subject of boning is one you feel strongly about, right?

RAIV: Yeah, I feel like if every world leader boned once a day, there wouldn’t be any more wars related to not getting boned.

PW: And so you’re focused on the future of boning?

RAIV: Yeah. Boning is always gonna be around, and robots are the future. So I’m bringing the future and the eternal together. That’s how I live, actually. In the future. Ask me a question.

PW: Ok, uh… what’s the first single?

RAIV: Head lice. See? I answered the question you’re gonna ask four questions from now.

PW: Which is?

RAIV: What’s your favorite song on the album?

PW: Huh. So the album’s proceeds are dedicated to the Artemis Foundation for Boning Research, is that true?

RAIV: It is. We’re also funding research into boning fatigue and an Anti-Boneless Attack Squad.

PW: Some have accused you of being insensitive to the plight of the boneless. Is that true?

RAIV: Absolutely. I mean, do I endorse violence against those who do not bone? No. But neither do I denounce it, you know?

PW: Back to the album. What would you say is your favourite track on it?

RAIV: Peanut butter.

PW: Your favourite song is “peanut butter”?

RAIV: No, that’s the answer to the question you’re gonna ask five questions from now.

PW: Amazing. So tell us more about robolove, What are these future robots gonna be like?

RAIV: Well, machines now are asexual. You try to have sex with a machine now, no one understands. Not your family, not your friends, not the people who work the Sunday shift at Radio Shack, nobody. But the machines of the future will be b-sexual, because they will BE sexual, you know?

PW: Will these robots be able to conceive?

RAIV: Naw. That’s the beautiful thing, especially if you hate human beings like I do. Nothing but guilt-free boning with no responsibilities. Like the 60’s, without the bad stuff like people dying in Vietnam, but with the good stuff, like people dying in America.

PW: This dying you mentioned- that’s from a war, right? What’s this war gonna be about?

RAIV: This is something I depict on the album. The war’s gonna be about a shortage of robots to bone. The evil corporations that control the world are gonna put everyone in factories, and the most boned 10% of the population will do 85% of the world’s boning. They’ll get overthrown by General Bonekoff, a former soldier in the ElitiBone Army who has a change of heart about his oppression of the unboned.

PW: I heard you’re making this into a movie. Who’s going to star?

RAIV: I talked to Will Smith, but he looked confused. I talked to Colin Farrell, but he looked confused too, but that might’ve been because I was yelling at him across a movie theatre. Tobey Maguire said he’d do it, but he also said he’d almost certainly change his mind. We’re cautiously optimistic.

PW: So who directed your first video?

RAIV: (sighs) Damn it, I already told you! Peanut Butter!

PW: Oh, sorry.

RAIV: I told you, I don’t live in the now, I live in the future. In fact, I’m not even here. I left ten minutes ago.

PW: What? No you didn’t!

(Author’s note: At this point, RayJon evaporated into thin air. At first I was confused. Then I suddenly woke up in my own bed at home, and found RayJon Artemis IV sleeping next to me. He was clutching a jar of peanut butter and a toy robot. In his sleep, he muttered, “People of earth: you have nothing to lose but your chains. You have a world of boning to win.” I breathed a sigh of relief.)

Pick Witherz

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

The Happiness Project Art Exhibit
March 13-20 4pm-7pm: Viewings
March 12 8pm: Reception
108 Charles Street
All Ages / Free

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

Apple Crisp Music Video Club Workshop
Hosted by Josh Lyon and Lenny Epstein
Monday March 15th
The Artel Gallery, 205 Sydenham Street
All Ages / Free

Apple Crisp Music Video Club Screenings
Tuesday March 16th, 8pm
The Artel Gallery, 205 Sydehmam Street
All Ages / Free

Castlemusic / Muskox
Wednesday March 17th, 8pm
The Artel Gallery, 205 Sydenham Street
All Ages / Free

Clues / PS I Love You / False Face / Audiopark
Thursday March 18th, 8pm
The Mansion, 506 Princess Street
All Ages / Free

Modern Fuel & Apple Crisp Present:
Friday Night Flux w/ The Cedar Tavern Singers
Friday March 19th, 7pm
The Baby Grand Theatre, 218 Princess Street
All Ages / $10

Tea for the Voyage w/ Bone Ultimatum
Friday March 19th
10pm: The Mansion
506 Princess Street
19+ / Free

Apple Crisp Arts Presents:
Bands in Love, lead by Dave Clark (Rheostatics) / Tunnel Vision After-Party
Saturday March 20th, 8pm
The Mansion, 506 Princess Street
All Ages / Free

Hooded Fang / Christina Foster / Catherine Maclellan
(Festival Volunteer Appreciation Party)
Thursday March 25th, 8pm
The Mansion, 506 Princess Street
19+ / Free