Reminder: 2 Discover shows this week

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Discover Entertainment

proudly presents

An evening with legendary groove-rockers from Toronto

The Burt Neilson Band

Thursday February 24th

The Waldorf Hotel

1489 East Hastings

(1 block West of Commercial drive)

$7.00 admission @ the door

2 sets beginning at 10:00 pm

Formed in 1996 in frosty Thunder Bay, Ontario, BURT NEILSON BAND is a four-piece group simply in love with music. Consisting of bass, drums, guitar, keyboards and vocals, BNB thrives on live performances filled with creativity and spontaneity. The band, in their seven year career, have toured Canada coast to coast thirteen times, played over six hundred shows, had four successful independent releases, and secured an army of loyal and devoted fans.

With an original lineup of seven, BNB have refined their sound over the years to be more focused, clean and in tune with the moment. Mike Filipowitsch (guitar/vocals), Jeff Heisholt (keyboards/vocals), Jeremy Little (bass/vocals) and Gavin Maguire (drums/vocals) do their best to create music from the heart, drawing heavily from their backgrounds of rock n’ roll, funk, country and life.

The road has been good to Burt Neilson Band. They’ve been lucky enough to play across Canada and the USA, logging countless hours of van time and stage experience. From their beginnings in Northern Ontario, the band quickly branched out to spread their music to as many people as possible. One cross country tour suddenly turned into a dozen and before they knew it, BNB found themselves veterans of the highway and leaders of a new resurgence of independent Canadian touring bands. Consistently selling out rooms across the country and basically living on the road became the norm for Burt Neilson. So in 2002 the band decided to take a year off, settle down and get ready for another long stretch of writing, performing and recording. The band emerged from hibernation in early 2003 and are back at it again in full force, having recently received the “COCA – 2003 Indie Band of the Year” award.

Burt Neilson Band first entered the recording studio in 1997. Although throughout their years they have encouraged the taping and trading of their live shows, 1998 saw the release of the self-titled ‘Burt Neilson Band’. Recorded in Thunder Bay, the CD featured 10 of the band’s first compositions and went on to sell out of many pressings. BNB followed that with 2000’s ‘Orange Shag Carpet’, which featured more mature writing and showcased the musical growth of the band. 2001 brought the release of ‘Five Alive’, a live CD recorded while on tour in Ontario that March. It featured one song from each previous release as well as six new originals and clocked in at 74 minutes. The band released their fourth CD, “By the Door” in February 2004, and are currently on the road promoting it as well as preparing new material for their next release.

In the eight years that Burt Neilson Band has been playing together, the band is currently more excited to be doing what they do than ever before. They’ve rediscovered themselves and look forward to a busy, prosperous and fun-filled year as well as many more years to come.

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An evening with Maximum Jazz recording artists

Springer & Ducommun

with special guests

Vancouver party favourites

Davis Trading

Friday February 25th

The Fairview Pub

898 West Broadway

$8.00 admission @ the door

Springer & Ducommun

Laid back and funky, and definitely not just jazz! Vancouver-based guitarist Chris Springer and keyboardist Craig Ducommun compose, arrange and produce all their own music. Last year they toured Canada twice, and their groovy mix of jazz, funk, Latin, and electronica was a hit at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Check their cool Maximum Jazz CD's 'Two Weeks from Everywhere' & 'A New Country'... with Brad Ferguson - bass, John Raham - drums, Dave Say - saxophones and Jamie Havorka - trumpet.

Songwriters Chris Springer & Craig Ducommun have been wowing Vancouver's musical audience for better than a decade now. From their early days in bands like 'Crazy Fingers' & 'The Harvesters' to the more recent, more polished and more finely-tuned sounds of their current project, these 2 musicians (and frequent collaborators) represent some of the best in Vancouver's musical history, present... and surely the future too.

Davis Trading

Bursting with raw energy and passionate about getting the crowd on to the dance floor, Vancouver's Davis Trading mixes elements of pop, funk, hip hop and roots. With Gabe Davis - vocals/guitar, Marc Labrie - bass/guitar, Jory Groberman - guitar/bass/vocals and Micah Groberman - drums/percussion.