HURRAY FOR EVERYBODY!!!...TONIGHT AT PJC

[kc]

Pepper Jack Cafe Concert

Thurs Jan 27th

Time: 8pm

Nonie Crete Band in Concert @ The Pepper Jack Cafe

Where's it at:

38 King William, Hamilton

(905)525-6666

http://www.pepperjackcafe.com

cost: $8.00

The Nonie Crete Band

Nonie Crete, Eugene Rea & Tom Leighton

Nonie Crete: has toured folk festivals and house concerts from east to west in Canada and in the U.S. In Ireland Nonie was featured on BBC and performed along with Clannad and! Altan at a concert in Donegal . The response to her music was overwhelming and included such heartwarming praise as that from the mother of internationally reknowned artist Enya. She told Nonie she was moved to tears by the song 'Let it Rain' that was inspired by Nonie's own mother.

Now Nonie can add the blues to her repertoire as one of the "Ladies of the Grand River" with such great musicians as Marg Stowe, Silvia Wright, Christine Bird, Maureen Brown and Cheryl Lescom. The Grand Ladies went on to get a standing ovation at the Blues, Brews and BBQs Festival in Kitchener this past summer of Aug 7th 2004 and where publically asked back for the next one.

Nonie recently opened for the Boys of Alabama at the Oakville Centre of the Arts:

Oakville Today Review

"Warm, with lots of anecdotes about her folks whom she clearly adored, Nonie Crete was a great opener for the Boys and would be welcome any time to the Oakville stage."

http://www.noniecrete.com

Eugene Rea: cousin to the famous Tommy Sands and Sands family, plays guitar, tenor banjo, mandolin and bousouki and has played with various groups including Crubeen, Atlantic Bridge, The Mourne Ramblers, Dhu Varryn, The Rea Brothers, and Eugene and Andrea Rea, and recorded a number of albums. Eugene has recorded 5 albums to date:- "Houl Yer Whisht - On Boyne's Red Shore", "Houl Yer Whisht - The Muttonburn Stream", Eugene and Andrea Rea, "The Murphy Family - Here we are Amongst You", and Rathlin;

http://www.reastudios.com

Tom Leighton: a featured musician on Nonie's 'Girl in a Crazy World' cd and has performed with Nonie many times in concert. Tom's superb harmony and arranging skills, and the stories and images co! me vividly to life. Tom sometimes plays FOUR instruments AT ONCE; left hand pumping the accordion and bass, the right hand thumping the drum, while his feet deftly work the pedals of the keyboards.

Tom is also musical partners with the very talented Mark Haines.

http://www.haines-leighton.com

Starting the concert off is the very talented Greg Quill

GREG QUILL

The award-winning singer-songwriter and founder of the seminal Australian roots band Country Radio, which scored hits with "Gypsy Queen", "Wintersong", "Fleetwood Plain" and "She Do It To Me" in his homeland in the 1970s, Greg has headlined at the Sydney Opera House, and shared stages with many musical icons of the era, including Fairport Convention, Elton John, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Santana, J.J. Cale and Stephen Stills, among others. In Canada, first as a solo artist on the prestigious Elektra label, then heading up the formidable Toronto-based country-rock outfit, Southern Cross, Greg continued playing through the mid-1980s, before embarking on a career in arts journalism with The Toronto Star. Three! years ago he teamed up again with Country Radio songwriting partner Kerryn Tolhurst, a roots music producer and session guitarist in New York, to write and record the CD “so rudely interrupted”, which was released in Australia in April 2003 during a tour ! of their homeland, their first performances together there in 30 years. Greg and Kerryn headlined more than a dozen concerts, including the Port Fairy Folk Festival and the Brunswick Music Festival in Victoria. True North Records released “so rudely interrupted” in Canada in October 2003. Greg plays regularly in and around Toronto solo, in a duo with bassist Dennis Pinhorn, and with his band The Usual Suspects, featuring accordionist Denis Keldie and fiddler Anne Lindsay. He has appeared at Summerfolk 2004, twice at Winterfolk, as well as at The Flying Cloud Folk Club, Graffiti’s, The Staircase Café Theatre in Hamilton, Lee’s Palace with Paul Kelly, and at twice at Hugh’s Room with Guy Davis and Colin Hay.

http://www.gregquill.com

[Lazlo]

So? Is it good?

[kc]

Maybe not as good as your first hit of crack in the morning, but still pretty good.