Friday September 30 at 8 pm, $5. Jazz with Suzanne Ramsay, vocals, and Mike Stanutz, guitar – originals and “hippy jazz”, a bit folky, a bit jazzy, definitely alt. Sue recently appeared at the Burlington Blues and Jazz Festival. “She is very excited about her new all original CD with Mike Stanutz entitled Dichotomy. It starts from their regular 50’s groove and moves quite quickly into some jazzier and some more alternative 60’s sounds. A soulful place …..a blending of jazz and alternative. We know you’re going to love it.” Listen to Sue here: http://www.suzanne-ramsay.com/music.html
Event, Music-Jazz
Thursday September 29 at 8 pm, $10. Songwriter Fred Magie comes to Artword Artbar to play a concert featuring songs from his album “Window to the World”. True to his acoustic guitar, Fred 
sounds a lot like Neil Young and Ron Sexsmith and was recently nominated for a Hamilton Music Award. http://www.fredmagie.com/
Joining him is Toronto’s Elana Harte. A gifted vocalist, Elana will be showcasing a selection of her original songs. http://www.elanaharte.com/
Event, Music
Tuesday September 27 at 7:30 pm, free. Crime Writers of Canada authors gather for a night celebrating one of our guilty pleasures – Pulp Fiction in several sub-genres: Mystery, Fantasy, Western and Romance. Oh my! Authors reading: Catherine Astolfo, Janet Bolin, Alison Bruce, Melodie Campbell, Gloria Ferris, Ian Hamilton. http://www.crimewriterscanada.com/ Read more…
Event, Literary, Spoken Word
Saturday September 24, at 8 pm, cover pwyc. Singer-songwriter-guitarist Mark McNeil trades songs with Les Smith (of Trickbag), on blues harmonica, guitar, vocals. Come out to a night of great songwriting, fancy guitar work and rip-roaring harmonica playing — with Mark McNeil and Les Smith. With special guest country blues man Mo Kauffey. They’ll play solo and together a collection of roots-based originals and standards. Mark will also give a sneak preview of a new album he’s finishing up. Here’s a cut from it that features Les on harmonica and background vocals. http://soundcloud.com/mcneil-rochard/shiny-things#
Event, Music
Friday September 23 at 8 pm, pwyc. “PoeMagic“, an evening of spoken word, hosted by dub poet Klyde Broox, usually fourth Friday of the month. All genres of spoken word poets welcome.
Contact Klyde at kbroox@porchlight.ca. “Steeped in oral traditions, Broox’s gesture-enabled, dance and song-oriented, performances are consistently pitched to engage, entertain, and invite audiences to experience poetry as social communion. … “
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Event, Literary, Spoken Word
Thursday September 22, at 8 pm, pwyc. Dave Macintosh & Friends, with host Dave MacIntosh on guitar and vocals and his wonderful songs. Also on the bill: Elissa Mielke, Amanda Mead, and James Garfield.
Event, Music
Friday September 30 at 8 pm, $5. Jazz with Suzanne Ramsay, vocals, and Mike Stanutz, guitar – originals and “hippy jazz”, a bit folky, a bit jazzy, definitely alt. Sue recently appeared at the Burlington Blues and Jazz Festival. “She is very excited about her new all original CD with Mike Stanutz entitled Dichotomy. It starts from their regular 50’s groove and moves quite quickly into some jazzier and some more alternative 60’s sounds. A soulful place …..a blending of jazz and alternative. We know you’re going to love it.” Listen to Sue here: http://www.suzanne-ramsay.com/music.html
