The Sounding Board ©
1st Year Anniversary Bash !!!
hosted by
sponsored by
The Sound Exchange
Listen live to Jeff Bishop's "The Stuff Guys"
10:30 to 12 am, February 14, 2008
CJOB 680 AM
The Lounge of Charlie O & Friends
8 pm to 12:15 am
STILL STANDING
WANDA WILSON
THE JONESTOWN ESCAPISTS
RYELEE
Prize Giveaway !!!
MATT MCLEOD
PAEGAN SUNFLOWERS
THE FLEETWOODS
STRAWBERRY QUICK
Prize Giveaway !!!
Door Prize !!! Trivia Question !!! 50/50 Draw !!!
The Open Mic
12:30 to 1:30 am
Tubby's Pizza Restaurant
9:30 pm to 12:15 am
The Speakers' Corner
Spoken Word, Poetry, Comedy
All Ages !!!
hosted by
John Cunningham, Poet & Musician
Shelly Genthon, Poet
Kitty, Poet
Wayne Matthews, Comedian For Fun
Christopher Nause, Painter, Sculptor & Poet
Michael O'Neill, Poet
Rhonda Rogers, Poet
Anthony Van Dijk, Poet
Werner VAN Harder, Wordist
Colin Ward, Poet
Zofia, Poet
The Lounge of Charlie O & Friends
8 pm to 12:15 am
8 to 8:20 pm
Still Standing are Cynthia Hiebert, Paul Bezilla and Courntey Sands.
"Perception Is everything... Deeply influenced by the instrumental and vocal traditions of Appalachia, Still Standing blends folk roots, gospel and bluegrass music into a unique old time sound completely of their own design. The mixture of male and female voices combined with excellent instrumental skills, weaves an evening of joyful fun and harmonic vibration that touches hearts and inspires a sense of well-being.
This trio, all coming from different backgrounds and experiences, is what folk music is all about. It ties us together and makes us happy."
Mitch Podolak, Founder, Home Routes
www.homeroutes.ca
8:25 to 8:45 pm
www.myspace.com/wandawilson
www.manitobamusic.com
www.myspace.com/scottdruming
Independently driven, yet together they drive, waNda wilsoN with Scott Druming have a style that speaks for itself. With the DIY approach to their work, you just never know what these two are going to come up with next. The duo is known to sometimes kick-up a tune that's unrehearsed and unexpected which in any case, shows edge. What kind of music do you ask? Well, to each her/his own. These two are all over the road...
8:50 to 9:10 pm
www.myspace.com/thejonestownescapists
The Jonestown Escapists is a band that was devised as a means of collaboration between two Winnipeg musicians, Chris Kilrea and Steve Hupe.
Chris aka ElectroQutie, known for his tongue-and-cheek musical schtick and Steve for his rock ballads are creating music that entertains audiences wherever they play. Their live show runs the gamut — from humourous lyrical verse to acoustic folk songs. Expect to see them gigging at a Winnipeg venue near you!
9:15 to 9:35 pm
www.myspace.com/ryeleemusic
www.sonicbids.com/ryelee
RyeLee is the female version of Dallas Green/City & Color. The vocal texture combines with the delay effects and gentle stripped-down guitar to create acoustic folk pop played by two girls who find themselves in the middle of the Canadian Prairies. It's Winnipeg. It's winter. They stay inside a lot and play guitar.
Lorrie and Rheanna met half a year ago. Rheanna had just decided to put together her first solo album after being in a band with her two brothers for several years. It was just enough time for Lorrie to add background vocals to two of the songs on the album The Fall set for release in February 2008. They are currently reworking some older material to utilize harmonies more effectively and are excited about their current collaboration.
In December Rheanna and Lorrie, as RyeLee, played their first open mic together at the Lounge of Charlie O and Friends in Winnipeg. Since then, they have played other open mic stages and are looking forward to several upcoming shows.
Some would say Lorrie and Rheanna are obsessed with words. Etymology. Word and phrase origins. Some would say they are tall. They would say they like coffee and crosswords and eating breakfast for all meals.
Songs of aching sadness, longing and a glimmer of hope make RyeLee "music with meat on it's bones".
Ryelee will be accompanied by Neil Goebel on cello. Neil has been playing various instruments including bass and banjo for a few years and recently found that the cello is a great way to sound different — not so much a songwriter but more of an accomplice to most anyone who lets him play.
" I mostly play songs that I've never heard... on stage in front of crowds — seems to work better if I don't know what's coming next."
Neil currently plays electric banjo with alt/folk metal/grass sexy/pajamas band Valsuzie www.myspace.com/valsuzie who are working on their debut album.
9:45 to 10:05 pm
www.myspace.com/thewhitelightmachine
Matt McLeod built The White Light Machine. He produces, composes and performs a wide range of works representing all wavelengths of the spectrum.
From Oxford english dictionary:
WHITE LIGHT= noun, apparently colourless light containing all the wavelengths of the visible spectrum at equal intensity (such as ordinary daylight)
MACHINE = noun, 1- an apparatus using or applying mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task. - (technical) any device that transmits a force or directs its application.
2- an efficient and well-organized group of powerful people, eg "the party machine".
3- a person who acts with the mechanical efficiency of a machine.
4- verb, make or operate on a machine.
10:10 to 10:30 pm
www.myspace.com/paegansunflowers
The Paegan Sunflowers are a two-piece ensemble consisting of members Jordan Tschmier and Maciej Haczkur.
Formed in the summer of 2007, the duo has has built up a repertoire of over 20 songs and has been playing to appreciative audiences at open mics around Winnipeg. Beautiful harmonies and tight arrangements are quickly becoming a Paegan Sunflower trademark and are reminiscent of the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young days of old!
In the studio, Jordan and Maciej like to experiment with different instruments and styles and are in constant pursuit of new and unique sounds. Their debut album is nearing completion and is set for release this spring with a second CD to follow later in the year.
10:35 to 10:55 pm
11 to 11:20 pm
www.myspace.com/dendacott
www.myspace.com/SixStringSamurai
www.myspace.com/loisgillespie
Strawberry Quick was formed recently when singer songwriter Lois Gillespie asked her friend Donna Endacott to sing harmony on some tunes. It was so much fun they decided a third voice might round things out nicely and asked Simon Davis to lend his vocals to the mix.
They discovered a shared enthusiasm for old country, gospel, bluegrass, sweet pickin' and serious musical mayhem. This trio takes inspiration from an eclectic blend of genres and styles resulting in a refreshing and unique sound.
11:30 to 11:50 pm
Quietly contemplating the completion of his album, Michael Ledda is an artist who takes his future seriously. Determined to show you a thing or two about soulful interludes, he embraces personal challenges with an intensity that is openly reflected in the art he wants to share with you. His life is filled with both music and visual art — with passions heavy on the acoustic guitar and visions captured on canvas.
Born and raised in Winnipeg, Michael trained at the Winnipeg Art Gallery at a young age. He is always singing. There seems to be no other way for this father of two.
He's expecting to host an art exhibit with live music later this year where he will be presenting his latest collection for silent auction to fund the production of his musical work. The Show will be called "Dreams of the Future".
11:55 pm to 12:15 am
Bill Klysh, formerly the bass player for Winnipeg bands Lesterhazy and The Meaning of Fish, is a prolific songwriter who performs his own brand of acoustic music. While he dabbles in different styles, his major influences are melodic pop rock bands such as the Beatles, Crowded House, Fleetwood Mac, U2 and Squeeze.
His first CD The Linus Link was produced by Lloyd Peterson of Private Ear Recording and released in 2003.
Having accomplished his life-long goal of recording 'his own pop rock album', Bill took a few years off to raise a family and has just recently begun work on a new project The Acoustic Pop of a Melody Junkie which he hopes to release sometime in 2008.
Bill's new songs and latest performances demonstrate significant growth as a musician. He continually strives to create the 'perfect pop song' while producing a body of work that is both meaningful and fun to perform.
Tubby's Pizza Restaurant
9:30 pm to 12:15 am
Host of 'The Speakers' Corner'
Since 1980, Paul Cameron Miller has established himself as a multi-disciplinary inventive force who enjoys far reaching influence as an artist and teacher.
Through his physicality and command of dialects, Miller brings presence and colour to his theatrical resume.
His guitar playing has elicited comparisons with some of the world's best. He has developed techniques that raise the bar considerably. His two full-length albums were released to critical acclaim while introducing him to a new audience as the visual artist who designed the covers.
Cameron, as he prefers to be called, has been a painter since childhood with his first commission bestowed at the age of six. He has exhibited numerous times with works selling in collections from Toronto to Vancouver and Phoenix to the Dakotas. He has been a Canada Council for The Arts recipient and has published prints and posters of several of his pastels and watercolours.
As a published poet, his lyrical verse can transport an audience or reader down a path of darkness one moment and to a virtual eden the next. He has travelled to Chicago and Ottawa as a member of the Winnipeg Poetry Slam team. Cameron is also a two-time finalist of the Writers' Collective (Adult) Poetry Contest, having had his latest entry, a piece called 'Cello', published on December 31, 2007 in the Winnipeg Free Press.
For the past two decades, he has been teaching music, primarily guitar, and has inspired hundreds of young players. Some, like John K. Samson and Stephan Carroll of the Weakerthans, have moved on to international recognition.
John Cunningham is a regular reviewer for Prairie Fire and Contemporary Verse 2, as well as Jacket magazine in Australia. He has also published in Border Crossings, Zygote, Winnipeg Free Press, CBC Radio 990, and Estates & Trusts Quarterly.
A former musician and lawyer, he is now devoting his time to the writing process working on poetry, reviews, interviews, poetics essays, and has recently begun writing, after conducting several months of research into the history of the northern interlake — a novel.
Shelly Genthon was born on January 29, 1962 in St. Boniface, Manitoba ... a birth date shared with the likes of W.C. Fields, Tom Selleck, Heather Graham (Hoo-Huh!), Oprah (not "Uma") Winfrey (damn!).
His Great Grandfather was referred to as "Le Gros" by the Cree of the Moose Lake area as he was a fur trader with the Hudson's Bay Company (he was 6'6" and 300 pounds – no fat!) and a renowned Metis fiddler.
Shelly loves hockey, single malts (Balvenie Double Wood or any Islay will do) and Partagas (will accept Cohiba or Bolivars as suitable substitutes), preferably Torpedoes!!!
His favourite reads are Mordecaei Richler, Margaret Lawrence and Dave Bidini (sometimes Niall Ferguson if he has the time).
His poets of choice these days are Garrison Keelor, Pablo Neruda, Leonard Cohen & Sinead O'Connor (God she's so perfect...)
As for music, he loves it all!!! Currently he's listening to Pat Metheny, Grinderman, Bruce Cockburn (great poet in his own right), Tangerine Dream, Lou Reed and Elliot Brood (Feist is cool and hot – how could this be?)
Turn-ons? Truth, sincerity, women (he hasn't given up yet).
Turn-offs? The non real money makers: computer $ shifters, traders, banks real estate agents and all forms of government (with the exception of course of traffic division cops – we need more of 'em to collect tax revenue), Replican$ (Republicans).
Shelly is a Metis anarchist at heart. He tends to follow the Groucho Marx credo...
"I would never join any association that would have me as one of its members."
Heroes? Steven Fletcher (he never quits), Stanley Knowles, Abe Lincoln and Bobby Orr!!!
Favourite actors? Mickey Rourke, Harry Dean Stanton, Wilhem Dafoe and Merryl Streep.
Favourite movies? How much time to you have? Harold and Maude, Thief, 2001 – A Space Odyssey, Scent of a Woman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Big Blue, Snatch, Crash (the 'real' one), Marathon Man and The Sting.
Had enough?
What I think, where I went to school, if I’m straight, gay, male, female, white, black, red or yellow, where I live or what I look like, is insignificant. There won't be any long-winded explanations of what my work is about, or some bullshit ramble of how I’m trying to reflect this or that.
It is not important.
What is important is what you get out of it — it’s your choice to decide if you agree, disagree, like or dislike my work. You don’t need some yahoo art snob telling you how little you know about art and why you should like something.
How you respond to art, no matter what the discipline, is very personal. If you choose to get personal with my work, all the power to you.
Kitty
Alternative Art for Alternative Minds
Christopher performed at the 1st Annual Earth Day Celebration and Fundraiser for JUST Community Market and the Organic Food Council of Manitoba in 2007. He has also read at The Sounding Board open mic.
His MO...
Michael O'Neill was born. He lives.
Rhonda likes words. She loves using her verbal ballet to dance above the things that most take for granted.
Her training and experience fronting rock bands now allows her sensual and honeyed hush to fall onto the ears and enter the mind in a way that cannot be described. Enjoy.
Anthony van Dijk was born in Nova Scotia. He is the second youngest of seven children. After several moves in Ontario and Saskatchewan, he settled in Le Pas Manitoba and now resides in Winnipeg.
As a young man, he was intrigued by the written word and began writing poetry in high school. Over the years he continued writing but decided to apply pen and ink to composing lyrics.
He is currently promoting his lyrics and developing melodies.
. Metaphoric Dream published in www.poetry.com
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Metaphoric Dream selected as 1 of 32 entries for professionally read CD
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3 songs submitted to www.songoftheyear.com which received 'Honourable Mention'
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Personal Latitude published in North Roots Magazine
(VAN / VANA)
Born in Winnipeg's Women's Pavilion in 1953, and always too square (or straight) to have any friends his own age, I started hangin' out – at da library, when I was 13.
I 'tink it was 1966, (Sorry – vernacular is fun), I loved reading, as did/do my parents (Mom's still with us) and I was a dictionary geek.
• Every 5 years I have read through the dictionary to find the new words, or see the words that have fallen out of use, 'til 2006 when I created my own dictionary of Van-isms and now I use these words for political rant, trying to make the nonsense make sense.
Like my Dad would have wanted me to. I write because of a wonderful woman (in fact many wonderful women), in my life, at 'my' beginning 15/16 years my English teacher was Sharon Engbrecht, and she was a person, and not just a position at Hugh John Macdonald, she was interested in her 'kids' developing, to the point that one class day she brought a tape deck in to school and played Simon and Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence" for us, and I became mesmerized by the pictures in their words. I still am!
"... and the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls", if you know anything about tenement life, • read slums – even here *.
She was inspirational. She was killed, last year ('07), along with her daughter in a devastating car accident, and I only heard about it well after the fact, (SO), she is one of the many important women in my life, to whom I now dedicate myself to making the world a better place, or to scream my head off (... on paper), TRYING!
For my mother TINA, for my daughter KASSARA, for MY world filled with Sisters.
Colin Ward is in his early fifties. Married. No kids.
One corgi. He has lived in Winnipeg since 1978.
Colin teaches bridge and creative writing online.
I was once mute.
To my surprise, one day
I started writing poetry in English
my second language
I found my voice
