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What's going on? Where shall I wow with my deadly-awesome costume? Suggestions anyone?

Phil's gonna be okay. Phil's gonna be okay. Phil's gonna be okay. C'mon Phil, be okay.

In. I'll probably catch some of those Tuesday Steve & Paulie shows too. Good music, good bar, good times!

I think this will be my first time at Danforth Music Hall!

Yep.

No. The worst Bluesfest ever was the year after the stage collapse. For the record, Air Supply was fantastic this year. As were The Hip.

I've been to a lot of shows, but I've never arrived via crow.

AC$DC

Was I small? I'm usually small from far away.

October 17th. Amex presale is on now.

Wait - who's birthday is it? Aw fuckit. Happy Birthday.

Could you send me an email? I can't find your email address and your message box on this message board seems to be full. It's my first initial and my last name followed by sympatico dot ca.

...but is Harper obviously wearing lipstick in this video? http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-conservative-anti-drug-1.3187024

John and Lucas are performing separately. Whether either all be playing solo or otherwise is still up in the air.

That was lots of fun, thanks to all involved. Now when can we have a Freeway Band reunion?

I thought it was Magmaball. Isn't it supposed to be some sort of rock festival? Whatever, I've already got tickets so I suppose I'll still go.

Yep. Just like what happened to John Scofield.

It's rare that Irene's offers advance ticket sales so unfortunately tickets will be available at the door only.

Instruments For Africa benefit concert and silent auction Featuring John Kadlecik w/ special guest Lucas Haneman Saturday, September 5, 2015 Irene’s Pub 885 Bank Street Ottawa $10/9pm/19+ www.instrumentsforafrica.com www.johnkmusic.net www.lucashaneman.com irenespub.ca International touring artist John Kadlecik and local guitar phenom Lucas Haneman will showcase their talents at Irene’s Pub to raise funds for Instruments For Africa’s upcoming shipment to Zambia. The night of music will be accompanied by a silent auction, featuring items from local merchants and memorabilia signed by artists including Daniel Lanois, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin and others. American singer and guitarist John Kadlecik made a name for himself performing the music of Jerry Garcia in the world’s premier Grateful Dead tribute act, Dark Star Orchestra. In 2009 he was recruited by Grateful Dead founding members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir for their most popular post-GD project, Furthur, and with his musical heroes transformed into musical partners Kadlecik spent the next five years on an endless tour of sold-out arena and festival dates helping to continue the legacy of the Grateful Dead. Making his home in Washington, DC, Kadlecik keeps himself busy with a myriad of projects. In addition to performing solo concerts and working with performers like Melvin Seals, Kadlecik is currently touring with the Golden Gate Wingmen, a jamband supergroup that includes Kadlecik, Jeff Chimenti, Jay Lane, and Reed Mathis. The IFA benefit concert at Irene’s will land between two standout shows for John Kadlecik: an appearance at the Peach Festival in Scranton, PA just a couple of weeks before and a set at the Lock’n Festival in Arrington, VA the following week. Kadlecik will be in Italy in October to take part in the annual REX benefit Experimental Residency. While it’s easy to classify Lucas Haneman as a new sensation on the Ottawa scene, in reality the 28-year-old has been playing around Ottawa for almost two decades. While in high school he received the CBC Rising Star Award at the 2005 Ottawa International Jazz festival. In 2010 he graduated from Concordia University with a BFA in Jazz Studies where he received the prestigious Oscar Peterson scholarship. In his short career Haneman has toured across Canada sharing the stage with a host of artists, including Curtis Fuller, David Newman, Guido Basso, Jeff Healey, James Cotton, Sloan, Don Ross, Terry Kelly and David Usher. In March Haneman was honoured with an invitation to London, England to perform at the international Visually Impaired Musicians Live conference. Instruments For Africa is an Ottawa-based Not-For-Profit that collects musical instruments and accessories here in Canada and donates them to schools and community groups in select African countries. In the last two years IFA has donated hundreds of musical instruments to fifteen schools and organisations in three countries. IFA founder and local musician Todd Snelgrove will be leaving for Zambia on September 23rd to distribute another 100 trumpets, flutes, trombones, guitars, clarinets, and keyboards to five schools throughout the country. The goal of this benefit concert is to cover all costs related to the shipping and distribution of the instruments.

Agreed (as usual). Dude is a really good guitar player and he is no stranger to jamming. It's weird that an audience known to accept such a variety of sonic experiences within a rock band context (drums/space, country music, occasional extremely questionable vocals, barbershop, vacuum solos, etc) can dismiss things out of hand before they hear them*. And it's not like this is a court-ordered sentence or anything...Bobby, Billy, and Mickey CHOSE to play with this guy. How can people not have any faith whatsoever in the musical opinions of their musical heroes? *I did this in the early 90's with Nirvana; heard the first ten seconds of Smells Like Teen Spirit and had the band pegged as talentless hacks. Never went to see them live and only realized Kurt's genius after he was dead. I'm not gonna let that happen again.

Do you think the poseter had anything to do with that?

Thanks! It was a great birthday . -phorbesie

Well, that would be great, thanks so much for the offer. Please send me an email and I will send you the deets! tsnelgrove at sympatico period ca Rockin'!

Have a great time tonight (and tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day...)! You are awesome! Hmmm hmm hmmm hmmm hmmm.

Unfortunately I don't have a budget at all, hence DB is my current front runner. I'm very much hoping I get much more than I pay for.