From news-drm at lists.deeprootsmusic.ca Sun Apr 18 06:40:48 2010 From: news-drm at lists.deeprootsmusic.ca (News and announcements about the Deep Roots Music Cooperative) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:40:48 -0300 Subject: [Deep Roots News] Deep Roots News - April 17, 2010 Message-ID: <24F2B5D2234349B8B68BB46AD9E2988C@LISALaptop> Deep Roots News April 17, 2010 In this issue: * Volunteer Expo * Office on Main Street and HELP! * Volunteers * Embroidered DRMC logo looks great on jackets and more! * Car Share * Ryan Cook sings Hank William ? Union Street, May 1st * Steve Poltz CD release ? Al Whittle Theatre, May 12th * Thom Swift House Concert ? Mike Aube?s - May 14th * Deep Roots Newsletter - next deadline Volunteer Expo Deep Roots Music Cooperative participated in the Volunteer Expo organized by the Valley Volunteer Coalition on April 13 at Kingstec. We believe the exposure of the Cooperative and Festival was very positive. The folks staffing the 40 booths outnumbered the visitors, but these people are active in the community and supportive of many efforts, certainly including ours. Office on Main Street and HELP! The office downstairs at The Box of Delights is coming together. It is the first time we have had a space months before the festival and time to empty the boxes and think about DRMC issues before we are overwhelmed by the festival. As I have sorted through the boxes and computer files, I see a variety of ways hands on help would be appreciated. 1. We have a DIY cabinet that is very useful but has never been painted. It looks rather sad but could have a renewed life with a coat of paint. 2. We have ? of the window space at The Box of Delights. It would be great to have a volunteer to take on the task of changing the display each week from June 1 to the festival. 3. Last year in Parrsboro I visited an exhibition on the 25th year of the Ship?s Company Theatre. They have a volunteer who has collected info on the theatre since its inception and prepared wonderful scrapbooks. It would be great to have someone with an archivist?s bent to put this info together. 4. It would be great to have someone help mounting posters on foam board. If anyone wants to offer their hands, please email office at deeprootsmusic.ca Volunteers Why do people help out at our festival? Because you get a great feeling to be part of such a production. Adrenaline courses through our bodies to solve problems, enjoy music, and generally be proud of being part of a great event. Mounting the Deep Roots Music Festival is only possible through the efforts of its volunteers and we have many who return year after year. But at some point volunteers move on. This year we are looking for new folks to be trained to take over the kitchen operation and billeting. (Our incumbent for billeting has handled this for every festival!) With the maturation of the festival, procedures are in place and (in theory) the job becomes more routine. If you are interested, please check out the website ( http://www.deeprootsmusic.ca) and apply. Embroidered DRMC logo looks great on jackets and more! Our fundraising group is planning to make more fleeces to sell at Deep Roots Music Festival this year - did you see them last year? We sold polar fleece or cotton hoodies, jackets and vests (second hand but not showing any signs of wear) embroidered with the DRMC guitar logo. We also want to offer to have our logo embroidered on items of your choice, for a reasonable fee. (Li has a DRMC towel, housecoat, flannelette shirt and baseball cap!!) If you have something you want us to send out when we send our festival order for embroidering, let us know. So - Search Frenchy's, search your closets! Help us find this year's stock for festival swag, or just get something embroidered for yourself. If you have a suitable polar fleece or cotton hoodie, jacket or vest to donate, or some other item you think would look great with the DRMC logo, please let us know by emailing office at deeprootsmusic.ca. Car Share If you are interested in investigating Car Share for Wolfville and area please email: wolfville.carshare at gmail.com. Ryan Cook sings Hank Williams - at Union Street Saturday, May 1st Meagan and Jenny have booked an exciting show for Saturday May 1st at the Union Street Cafe in Berwick! "Ryan Cook's channelling of Hank Williams--his voice and heartache--is a moving experience. A terrific performance by this young artist and his band." - Harry Thurston, award-winning Author/Poet Ryan Cook is an award winning songwriter and performer who has performed on some of the same stages as Hank including the Ryman Auditorium, and Ernest Tubb Midnight Jamboree in Nashville, TN. Ryan has studied Hank Williams life and character through the biographical work of Colin Escott and many other biographers of Hank's life and story. He has been performing as Hank Williams since the summer of 2009 when he performed three sold-out weeks of the Maynard Collins play "The Show He Never Gave" at the Live Bait Theatre in Sackville, NB Canada. Ryan will be performing with his band including Andrew Sneddon, Adam Pye, and Brad Reid. Tickets are $15 and show starts at 9. Please e-mail contact at unionstreetcafe.ca to make your reservation and include your phone number. Steve Poltz CD release at Al Whittle Theatre ? Wednesday May 12th This is a special concert to celebrate the release of Steve Poltz's new CD, "DREAMHOUSE", produced by his friend and fan, Joel Plaskett. After two appearances at the Deep Roots Music Festival and two more fantastic solo performances, Steve Poltz has established himself as one of Wolfville's favourite artists, even though he lives in San Diego, California. If you've already experienced a Poltz concert, you know you can expect a renewed whirlwind of emotions and surprises. If you've never seen Steve Poltz, well, we believe you should... Steve Poltz CD Release Wednesday, May 12 Al Whittle Theatre 8 pm - 10:30 pm Tickets $15 at Box of Delights starting April 15 For more information email Francois at cotefra at gmail.com or telephone 902.670.2231 Thom Swift house concert at Mike Aube?s ? Friday May 14th Thom Swift will be playing a house concert at the Aube residence in Upper Falmouth, Friday, May 14 at 8 pm! Thom came to notoriety through his work with Hot Toddy, but since releasing his first solo CD in 2007, he has proven to be a soulful singer-songwriter and an amazing blues guitar player. His first album "Into the Dirt" was an ECMA and Maple Blues winner, and his new album "blue sky day" has been called "...a world class singer/songwriter album. " Limited seating. Tickets $20. Please RSVP soon to reserve your seat! Mike Aube [mike at mikeaube.com] Deep Roots Newsletter The deadline for submitting copy for the next Deep Roots Newsletter is 5:00 pm Saturday, May 15th, 2010. Normally the newsletter goes out every month at approximately mid month. The copy deadline is 5:00 pm on the 15th of the month. We are happy to include notices of music events with which Deep Roots members are involved. Please send info to news at deeprootsmusic.ca. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.deeprootsmusic.ca/pipermail/news-drm/attachments/20100418/9e9273cd/attachment.html