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Two that stick out immediately for me are: 1) Vishwa Mohan Bhatt - the man, the legend, the creator of the mohan veena. 2) Kinobe - I saw this guy and his band play in Kampala, Uganda 2 years ago, and they put on an excellent show. He plays a kora, or something like it. (I am in no way affiliated with Small World Music by the way ) 21 perfomances - 11 days - 10 Venues - $50 All Access (Promotional price only available between now & Labour day weekend ... Does not include admission to K'naan on October 1) The Festival: Concert Schedule Thursday, September 23 Funkabelly feat. Nomadica @ Lula Lounge, 9:00 (Gypsy funk & bellydance) Friday, September 24 Darbazi @ Mazzoleni Auditorium, 8:00 (Georgian chior) + Quarteto Olinda @ Lula Lounge, 10:00 (Brazilian “forró de rabecaâ€) Saturday, September 25 Vishwa Mohan Bhatt & Pooran Maharaj @ Betty Oliphant Theatre, 7:00 (Indian classical music & dance) Sunday, September 26 Small World on the Street @ Queen’s Park, 1-6:00 featuring: Steve Oda (sarod) w. Vineet Vyas (tabla) (Indian classical music) Tich Maredza Quartet (Zimbabwean music) Njacko Backo (Drums & songs from Cameroon) beatmap (world funk) Joanna Moon (French Gypsy & Flamenco) People Project (Border-crossing grooves) Tuesday, September 28 Mahala Rai Banda @ Opera House, 9:00 (Romainian brass band) Wednesday, September 29 Kinobe @ Lula Lounge, 9:00 (Ugandan Vanguard) Thursday, September 30 Carmen Souza @ Lula Lounge, 9:00 (Acoustic Afro-soul) Friday, October 1 K'naan @ Kool House, 9:00 (Somolian hip hop) **Not included in $50 All Access Pass + Elito Reve y su Charangon @ The Courthouse, 9:00 (Cuban salsa) Saturday, October 2 Sashar Zarif Dance Company celebrates Nuit Blanche @ The Great Hall, 8:00 (Persian dance) Sunday, October 3 Global Soul @ Isabel Bader Theatre, 8:00 feturing: Azalea Ray (India / Pakistan – vocal - Qawwali devotional) Jani Lauzon (First Nations – vocal - Canadian roots) Amchok Gompo (Tibet – vocal / lute / flute - Buddhist chant and song) Alan Gasser (Music Director – vocal – Georgian music & hymnody) George Koller (bass / dilruba / vocal - kirtan - yoga chant) Njacko Backo - (Cameroon – African ritual drumming)

Whoops! Funny no one caught on til you did though Rev. Have a good one tonight.

Good to hear they are on their A-game, that is VERY exciting! I'm sure last night's gathering in Port Dover with the Hawk, Garth, etc was a big night, hopefully they are back to full strength this evening. Definitely my favourite Canadian band to see perform live.

The show in the Hammer is the same night as Marco Benevento in Toronto. :dazed:

Anyone here going to be seeing The Sadies tonight in the Hammer? Just wondering what the crowds are like in Hamilton these days, and if getting advanced tickets is advisable. I'm passing on the Toronto Island show tomorrow in favour of this methinks - save some money and I'm more interested in seeing The Sadies in front of 180 people (?) tonight than both bands in front of 37,500 people (?) tomorrow.

Tonight.. Anyone here going?

Ha! Most requested by the artists themselves I take it? After all, I did give Joel Plaskett a good smashing to the shin with a guitar amp when he wasn't looking. He found it to be a humbling experience if I recall correctly - he apologized to ME about it! I still have a funny picture of you Sean gazing at Travis Good from side stage during one of the workshops (with the Sadies, Amy Milan, Charlotte Cornfield, etc). I will get that to you some day. Say hi to Sonny Ochs for me if she is back again this year.

This was the boss of a friend of mine (who basically runs Iggy's twitter feed among lots of other things). Sad indeed.

Just looked at the schedule -- looks really f'n good! Hope y'all have a great weekend.

GTs?

Check out Horse Feathers if you get a chance! They were excellent at the Hillside Festival this year during their own set as well as the backing band during the Gospel Hour Sunday set. They're from Oregon, so likely won't be back around here for quite a while.

Was just taking a gander at Steve Earle's website and noticed a bunch of dates in small/medium sized Ontario towns: Oct 15 Old Roxy Theatre - Mount Forest, ON Oct 16 Starlight Club - Kitchener, ON Oct 17 The Studio at Hamilton Place - Hamilton, ON Oct 19 The Grand Theatre - Kingston, ON, Oct 20 The Academy Theatre - Lindsay, ON, Oct 21 Aultsville Theatre - Cornwall, ON All dates solo acoustic, with Mike Plume. http://steveearle.com/tour.html

Gross.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/17386/189061 My Morning Jacket Hit the Studio Band recording follow-up to 'Evil Urges' in Louisville, Kentucky church By Patrick Doyle Aug 05, 2010 2:46 PM EDT Last weekend, Jim James played a stunning acoustic set at the Newport Folk Festival and showed up onstage with both the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and folk legend John Prine. Backstage, the My Morning Jacket frontman told Rolling Stone the band is currently recording the follow-up to 2008's Evil Urges in their hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. "We've got five songs done," he says. "We've worked a couple weeks. We're going to do another month. It'll probably be out mid-next year — probably May." James says that he is co-producing the album with Tucker Martine, who produced the Decemberists' The Crane Wife and Hazards of Love discs. "We're recording it in a church in Louisville," he says. "We've never made a record in Louisville before." James calls Evil Urges, which was recorded in Colorado and New York, "the hardest record we've ever made." The new sessions sound more upbeat. "I'm really excited," he says. "It's all live, so the vibe is really, really good, really wholesome. There's something about it. We've done stuff mostly live but then you do some overdubs, some vocals, or whatever. But we're trying to do everything other than maybe strings live. There's just something old and dirty about it." Since Evil Urges, the band has been busy with various side projects. James released George Harrison tribute EP Tribute To and appeared on the Monsters of Folk. Guitarist Carl Broemel will release his second solo album All Birds Say on August 31st. My Morning Jacket will play all five of their albums during a five-night stand in October at New York's Terminal 5. In late August, they will support Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for three dates in Massachusetts and New Jersey. "I'm looking forward to it," says James. "It'd be awesome if we get to play with him."

That is good thinking/planning though. Cool! Was Terry Gilliam's influence at all evident?

I have just now remembered about the webcast of the Arcade Fire concert at MSG, directed by Terry Gilliam, which was last night. DAMNIT! Did anyone see it? How was it? Link?

How was the show Jaimoe?

Double your fun on Saturday with the Tiger Cats playing a block away at the legendary Ivor Wynne Stadium (after Lee Harvey Osmond).

Check out Braids if you can. They were one of the surprise top notch acts at Hillside (according to me) this year. I'd love to make it to Sappy Fest one day - seems like a consistently great lineup.

It was great to return to Hillside festival this year after five years away - now I really remember why I keep referring to it as the best festival I've ever been to. They have almost everything down perfectly, really a model for all other festivals in Canada to learn from. My highlights and observations: - Paul Niehaus on the pedal steel guitar during the Calexico set... So very beautiful! - the Saturday afternoon Colossal Jam: members of Los Lobos, Calexico, Sarah Harmer, Jason Collett. Great show. - Sunday Morning Gospel Session: Sarah Harmer, Horse Feathers, The Good Lovelies, Be Good Tanyas, Ben Whiteley (Flashlight Radio, etc), Morgan O'Kane, Sam Doores - Braids - Awesome new band #1. Young quadruplet from Montreal. - Horse Feathers - Awesome new band #2. From Portland, Oregon. Don't miss them at Ottawa Folk Festival on Aug 14! - I missed Shane Koyczan and the Short Story Long but I heard that his/their set at the Lake Stage was insane. This is the slam poet guy who did the poem during the opening ceremonies to the Olympics. - Gord Downie & The Country of Miracles + Julie Doiron did a small set on the Island stage and a big set on the main stage on Sunday. During both sets, Dave Clark (drummer, also drummer from the Rheostatics, etc) consistently cracked the audience up and provided a relieving contrast to Downie's somewhat more serious and tense and strange (but captivating as always) stage presence. - Good to see you Eric and Anne, though briefly. - As usual, unfortunately, once again I missed the Lee Harvey Osmond set. - Sorely missed from the festival lineup: The Sadies, Kevin Breit.

RIP Ben Keith (1937-2010) http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/07/ben-keith-neil-youngs-steel-guitarist-19352010.html Ben Keith, the veteran steel guitarist who played on Patsy Cline’s 1961 hit “I Fall to Pieces†before befriending Neil Young and going on to play on more than a dozen of the Canadian rocker's albums, has died. He was 73. He died of a heart attack, director Jonathan Demme said Tuesday. Demme, who directed Young’s concert films “Neil Young Trunk Show†from earlier this year and 2006’s “Heart of Gold,†said Keith had been staying at Young’s ranch in Northern California, working on new projects with his longtime collaborator. Keith was featured prominently in both. In “Neil Young Trunk Show,†shot in Pennsylvania at a stop on Young’s 2007-2008 concert tour, Young said a key reason he chose to tour with Keith, bassist Rick Rosas and Crazy Horse drummer Ralph Molina, rather than convening the full, hard-rocking Crazy Horse trio, was that “I can do more variety this way, because Ben plays so many instruments.†Demme called Keith “an elegant, beautiful dude, and obviously a genius. He could play every instrument. He was literally the bandleader on any of that stuff… Neil has all the confidence in the world, but with Ben on board, there were no limits. Neil has a fair measure of the greatness of his music, but he knew he was even better when Ben was there.†Most recently, Keith had been touring with Young’s wife, Pegi, in support of her second solo album, “Foul Deeds,†for a handful of West Coast performances in June. He also had played earlier this year with Neil Young on his first totally acoustic tour in several years. Keith met Young in 1971 in Nashville, where the rocker was working on what would become his commercial breakthrough album, “Harvest.†Keith came to the recording studio at the invitation of drummer Tim Drummond, whom Young had asked to find a steel player for the sessions. When Keith arrived, “I didn’t know who anyone was, so I asked, ‘Who’s that guy over there?’ †and was told “That’s Neil Young.†“I came in and quietly set up my guitar -- they had already started playing -- and started playing,†Keith recalled in a 2006 interview. “We did five songs that were on the 'Harvest' record, just one right after the other, before I even said hello to him." Young, in a 2005 interview, remembered that "When we did ‘Old Man’ and talked about what he could play, I said, 'Try to play those single notes and make it sound doubled. Just ride those babies all the way through there, that's a great sound.' " That sound Keith came up with became a signature of Young’s folk and country-slanted material. Their association continued through Young’s albums “Tonight’s the Night,†“Comes a Time,†“Harvest Moon,†“Greendale†and “Chrome Dreams II,†among others. He also was featured as an actor, in the role of Grandpa Green, in Young’s film of the stage production of the “Greendale†concept album. Keith, who was born in 1937, became a popular session player in Nashville for years, both before and after connecting with Young. He also played live or in the studio with artists including Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Ringo Starr and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Keith also produced singer-songwriter Jewel’s 1995 debut album, “Pieces of You,†which has sold more than 12 million copies in the U.S., according to the Recording Industry Assn. of America. Among his own recordings, Keith released “Seven Gates†in 1994, a holiday collection in which he accompanied such high-profile friends as Johnny Cash, songwriter J.J. Cale and Neil and Pegi Young. Information on Keith’s survivors and funeral services were not immediately available. A full obituary will appear in Wednesday’s paper. -- Randy Lewis

Hey! Been away from the board here all day and thanks for all the input. Yes we did a full inspection before rental and carefully marked down every little scratch. The new scratches were identified upon our return and indeed we are responsible. I wasn't there for this part (my GF returned the car, and its on her name). My concern is with the $600 price tag. They claim to have scoped out two estimates, but do not have these on paper (hence I believe this to be BS). However in arguing this with the company, they argue that: 1) they already are not charging us for the "down time", or for the time that the car is not on the road because it is in for repairs... they claim that this is in the contract; 2) they are not obliged to obtain two estimates - although they did get two anyway (although this is suspect to me). We have insurance provided through credit card. The insurance company requires a list of stuff to make the claim: rental agreement, damage report, etc. All I'm worried about at this point is if the car rental company tries to get away with not providing us a detailed invoice for the repairs - needed for the insurance.

Hey all, We booked a car for this past weekend with Discount, a company that royally sucks. At pick up time on Friday, they didn't have a car for me (or the other 5 customers there who had reserved cars), so we were shuttled over to a small independent operation. We had their car for the weekend. I wasn't there when my girlfriend returned the car this morning, but apparently there were some scratches on the front bumper (which neither of us ever knew about -- likely from driving the car across a field for camping at Hillside). They estimated the cost to fix it to be approx $200. They just called back to let us know this is going to cost $600. I don't trust them and want to verify that this is the true cost, but not sure how to follow up. Anyone here ever been in a similar situation? Thanks..

WINNER! I phoned Hillside to inquire, and was told that in fact they decided to NOT mail out any tickets for this year's festival, but that they will all be available for pick up at the gate. This, despite the fact that my email receipt/confirmation says that tickets will be mailed. I've just emailed the festival with a follow-up so that I can have this in writing. What about everyone else - did you NOT receive physical tickets, like me (apparently)?