From news-drm at lists.deeprootsmusic.ca Mon Jan 16 09:25:55 2012 From: news-drm at lists.deeprootsmusic.ca (News and announcements about the Deep Roots Music Cooperative) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:25:55 -0400 Subject: [Deep Roots News] Deep Roots News, January 16, 2012 Message-ID: In this issue: * Deep Roots Music Cooperative AGM, January 29th * Deep Roots Newsletter - want to help? * Hupman Brothers playing a dance at the Wolfville Curling Club on February 10, 8:00 pm * Robbie Burns Day Celebration, Saturday, January 28th 7:00 pm at the Wolfville Curling Club Deep Roots Music Cooperative AGM Annual General Meeting for the Deep Roots Music Coop 2:00 - 4:00 PM Sunday, January 29th, 2012 Studio Z at the Al Whittle Theatre The annual Deep Roots Music Cooperative AGM will be held on Sunday, January 29th from 2:00 to 4:00 PM in Studio Z at the Al Whittle Theatre. All members are invited to attend. During the AGM the Board of Directors will be presenting two by-law amendments for a vote. The first will be to re-certify the membership policy previously passed in 2008. This is a formality required by the Cooperative Association. The second will be a change to the bylaw pertaining to the amount of time that a Board Member can serve on the Board. DRM is also looking for DRM members who might be interested in being on the Board of the Deep Roots Music Co-operative Peter Mowat Vice Chair Deep Roots Music Cooperative "We envision an enduring community, celebrating and enriching our culture through music." Deep Roots Newsletter Want to help? Our newsletter co-ordinator is going on a sabbatical. If you think you could volunteer to help us get our monthly newsletter compiled and sent out once each month, please contact our volunteer co-ordinator, Lisa Hammett Vaughan - lisa at deeprootsmusic.ca The newsletter goes out every month at approximately mid month. The copy deadline for the next newsletter is Wednesday, February 15th at 5:00 pm. We are happy to include notices of music events with which Deep Roots members are involved. Please send info to news at deeprootsmusic.ca Hupman Brothers playing a dance at the Wolfville Curling Club on February 10, 8:00 pm Perennial favourite of Deep Roots, the Hupman Brothers will be playing a dance at the Wolfville Curling Club on February 10, 8:00 pm to midnight. Tickets are $12 per person and can be bought at the Box of Delights bookstore in Wolfville. Jane Cayford Robbie Burns Day Celebration, Saturday, January 28th Robbie Burns day is just around the corner. So lets celebrate Scotland's late, great poet with a few less frills and a lot more dancing! Join dance caller Niamh Webster of the Tir na nOg Irish Dance Academy as she guides you through traditional (and some not so) Scottish and Irish dances accompanied by the driving tunes of the North Mountain Ceilidh Band (Scott Henderson - pipes, flute and whistles; and Andy Webster guitar, bouzouki and vocals). The band will also treat participants to a few renditions of some of Burns musical works and dancers of both Irish and Scottish traditions will give demonstrations during the break accompanied by the pipes. Door prizes and cash bar as always! Tickets are $10 in advance and can be purchased at the Box of Delights Book Shop in Wolfville, or at the door on the night for $12. Under 5s are FREE!! (For family rate or for groups of 10 or more please email or call us at info at tirnanogacademy.com or 582-1786. We look forward to stomping on the floor! http://valleyevents.ca/event?id=11256 Andy Webster -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 5651 bytes Desc: not available URL: