UPCOMING GIGS @ GEORGE'S ROADHOUSE (SACKVILLE, NB)
(MICHAEL JEROME BROWNE, ERIC BIBB & GREG AMIRAULT)
Just a quick reminder that Eric Bibb will be playing for us at 9 PM at George’s Roadhouse on Friday (July 4).
He will be ably backed by the great Canadian Michael Jerome Browne.
Tickets are $15 and are available at Ducky’s or at the door. To get a taste of what’s in store, please visit Eric and Michael’s websites.
We
have excellent news on the cross-border visa fee issue. You might
recall that we had requested you sign a petition asking the Canadian
government to and undo changes that would make presenting bands from
across the border prohibitively expensive. The petition was remarkably
well supported (over hundred thousand signatures), and it might have
played a significant role in not only undoing the changes but
abolishing the requirement for musicians from across the border
altogether! This will certainly make presenting music substantially
easier at our end (especially since it makes finding partners easier).
We thank you for your support in signing the petition, and for your
patience and patronage.
Finally, our sister
society, Catbird Jazz, will be presenting the featured show on 12 July (details
as below). We hope lots of you will come out to both our shows…
Thanks, The TBS Gang
A Son of the East Plays East of the Sun
The
Catbird Jazz Society, in collaboration with the Festival by the Marsh
and Ducky’s Bar, presents Greg Amirault, in a solo jazz guitar
performance (two sets), starting at 7:30 p.m., on Saturday, July 12,
2014, at Ducky’s, in Sackville. Admission will be “pay what you can”,
with a suggested donation of $10.
Originally
from Amirault’s Hill, Nova Scotia, and of Acadian origin, Greg Amirault
has been active in the Montréal jazz scene for 27 years. He has a
Diploma in Jazz Studies from St. Francis Xavier University, and
Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Jazz from McGill University. Having
studied with Greg Clayton, Roddy Ellias, and Ben Monder, he has
performed with such luminaries as Frédéric Alarie, Steve Amirault, Rémi
Bolduc, Roland Bourgeois, Michel Donato, Wray Downes, Howard Levy,
(Sackville’s own) Joel Miller, Eduardo Pipman, Maria Schneider, Don
Thompson, Dave Turner, André White, and Karen Young. Greg is also a
jazz guitar instructor at both McGill and Concordia Universities, and
has published a number of articles in Just Jazz Guitar.
Greg’s first album as a leader, entitled Acadian Folk Song, featured original music. His current album, East of the Sun,
recorded with bassist Fraser Hollins and drummer Dave Laing, delves
into the Great American Songbook – notably “Time After Time”,
“Yesterdays”, “In a Sentimental Mood”, “My One and Only Love”,
“Everything I Love”, and the Bossa-Novized “East of the Sun” – and also
offers a couple of his own compositions, “Fang Song” and “Lighthouse
Route”, the latter title suggestive of his youthful travels around and
about Yarmouth. The album displays Greg’s nimble, lyrical, and tasty
improvisational skills, in both ensemble and solo guitar performances,
and on jazz standards and originals alike.
To provide a taste of what is to come, here is a link to Greg’s solo guitar version of “My One and Only Love”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-bfHhTzzhA
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Tantramarsh Blues Society
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