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OPENING SET: KIERAN MELADY with MIKE CROCKER.  Tannis and Lewis visit us from Guelph, Ontario.  CFMA Contemporary Vocalist of the Year (2008) winner Tannis has “one of the most beautiful voices I have had the pleasure to listen to.” David Francey

Tannis grew up in a musical family on a farm in the prairies of western Canada.  In 1980 she moved to Ontario where she began a serious professional music career.  During the 80s and 90s she was a founding member of various roots bands and appeared as a special guest on recordings and performances with groups such as the Rheostatics, the Barenaked Ladies and the Grievous Angels.

After eleven years with the legendary trio The Bird Sisters she struck off on her own in 2001.  Her recordings and concerts are highly regarded by critics and audiences alike.

“A breathtaking vocalist with a bright, angelic disposition, Slimmon is a favourite folk attraction whose harmonies are as warm as her smile.” Exclaim

Find out more about Tannis Slimmon at www.tannis.ca

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Lewis is a Guelph, Ontario amazing multi-instrumentalist – guitars, banjo, pedal steel, bass and mandolin, as well as a composer and producer.

Find out more about Lewis Melville at www.maplemusic.com/artists/lme/bio.asp

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Find out more about Dave at http://davegunning.com

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Find out more about Sheesham & Lotus at http://sheeshamandlotus.com

Reservations required.  Suggested donation: $20 – $25.  ALL PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT THE GODERICH EdgeFund.

Join us for a marvellous folk-roots night with Goderich’s Matthew Hussey – ‘WHAT WE CAME FOR’.  This is a benefit concert for the Goderich EdgeFund following the tornado that ripped through the town of Goderich, Ontario on August 21, 2011, devastating many homes and businesses.

CBC Radio 3 says: “Matthew Hussey is a Singer/Songwriter from  Goderich,Ontario, Canada.  Matthew has been songwriting and playing music for about ten years.  He just released his new self titled album in February 2011.  This is the first solo release for Matthew who is usually seen fronting the rock band boy in december.   Matt has always had a softer singer-songwriter side and found that many of his songs didn’t work with his band.  Therefore, over the past few years Matt has been working in a small home studio putting together the songs that make up his self-titled debut. The album is filled with great melodies, acoustic guitars, strings, and pianos. His songs are thoughtful and moving, and his songwriting style is very classic and timeless. He comes stage ready with many years experience and is great live if you ever get the chance to see him.”

Our concert will be opened by Yellow Bird and the Open Cages.  Melina and John will also accompany Matthew during his concert.

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http://myspace.com/matthew-hussey

OPENING SET: JEANETTE SEARS & MIKE CROCKER (fiddle & guitar)

Valdy is one of Canada’s most loved musical performers.  14 albums, 2 Juno awards and 7 Juno nominations to his credit, Valdy continues to tour the world, sharing his music with passion and energy.  Valdy visits us from Salt Spring Island, B.C., where he lives with his wife, artist Kathleen Horsdal, three dogs and a large cat.

“I’ve been lucky,” Valdy suggests, when asked about his career’s longevity. “I’ve worked with some amazing people, players, innovative producers, great songwriters.” He pauses, pulls his whitening beard. “And I married the right woman.”

Another pause, then “Is that luck? Or is that moving at God’s speed? I mean, it’s more than strategy that puts these folks along my path. Sure I’m good at what I do, and I’m getting better, I’m paying attention, and I’m learning, but I’ve lived a charmed life, with a supportive partner, a glorious daughter, two vibrant sons, my health in tact; I am a really lucky man.”

Find out more about Valdy at www.valdy.com

WE ARE SORRY – THIS CONCERT IS SOLD OUT, BUT WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN THE WAITING LIST. PLEASE Email: houseconcerts@debbiecarroll.com WITH YOUR NAME, PHONE NUMBER AND THE NUMBER OF SEATS YOU WANT IF THEY BECOME AVAILABLE.  THANK YOU!

OPENING SET: JAYNE MITCHELL & JEFF MORRISON

Garnet Rogers, from Brantford Ontario, has been called “One of the major talents of our time” Boston Globe.  Brother & music partner-producer of the late Stan Rogers shares his own songs, stories and laughter.

Hailed by the Boston Globe as a “charismatic performer and singer”, Garnet is a man with a powerful physical presence – close to six and a half feet tall – with a voice to match. With his “smooth, dark baritone” (Washington Post) his incredible range, and thoughtful, dramatic phrasing, Garnet is widely considered by fans and critics alike to be one of the finest singers anywhere. His music, like the man himself, is literate, passionate, highly sensitive, and deeply purposeful. Cinematic in detail, his songs “give expression to the unspoken vocabulary of the heart” (Kitchener Waterloo Record). An optimist at heart, Garnet sings extraordinary songs about people who are not obvious heroes and of the small victories of the everyday. As memorable as his songs, his over-the-top humour and lightning-quick wit moves his audience from tears to laughter and back again.

Please note: Garnet has requested that guest bring a non-perishable item to donate to our local foodbank.Find out more about Garnet at http://garnetrogers.com

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OPENING SET: ELEANOR & WARREN ROBINSON with JOHN LODGE

Gavin is 1/4 of the super-group CRUCIBLE from Sheffield, England.  He will be sharing traditional songs, tunes and broadside ballads with guitar and concertina.

Gavin is a singer, writer and performer of folk music within the English tradition. He has performed for the last fifteen years in various guises with acclaimed projects including Crucible, Hekety, GloryStrokes and The Grinder’s Misfortune Society as well as guesting with acts from James Raynard to Taffy Thomas and Bellowhead.

He has performed at just about every major UK festival and played and taught overseas in Canada and Europe. In 2009 he was the winner of the John Birmingham Cup for newly composed unaccompanied song. His own compositions have been praised at home and overseas, and are performed in sessions and singarounds as well as by other highly regarded singers like Dave Webber and Anni Fentiman, Keith Kendrick and Sylvia Needham.

Gavin plays guitar, cittern, mandolin and Anglo concertina as well as performing unaccompanied. His repertoire includes a number of traditional ballads, some of which are seldom heard elsewhere. He is also an experienced workshop leader and qualified teacher and has taught vocal, instrumental, writing and more academic sessions at Towersey, Sidmouth, Strings at Witney, Goderich Celtic College (Canada), Cheltenham, Chippenham and many more. He was also editor of highly regarded folk magazine Stirrings from 2007 – 2009 and dances with the Grenoside Sword Dancers, one of Britain’s oldest traditional dance sides.

He holds a Masters Degree with Distinction in Oral Culture and Literature from the University of Sheffield and writes infrequently on folk related subjects.

Find out more about Gavin at http://gavindavenport.com .

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House Concerts Showcase International Talent

Riverview in-home concerts bring big names to Goderich.

The music scene in Goderich is about to get more intimate thanks to newly-arrived resident Debbie Carroll.  Carroll will be hosting a series of house concerts out of her Goderich home, beginning October 30 with a spook-filled evening with Vancouver’s Eileen McGann – a Juno-nominated traditional Celtic musician.

Prior to living in Goderich, Carroll hosted about 25 such concerts in her Toronto home, part of a growing trend of spontaneous concerts popping up all over the place.  While the intimacy of having 20 or 30 people in your living room may seem like a full house, what really fills the evening is the music, and Carroll has top-notch Canadian and American talent slated to perform in Goderich.

“It’s a concert, it’s listening to an amazing musician – we get amazing musicians.  They sort of fall out of the sky like angels,” she said.  “What we do is we really try to keep the standard of our performers so high.  It encourages others to come because we get high caliber performers.”

Under the moniker of Debbie and Bill’s Riverview concerts, Carroll said the in-home shows also have a spot for local performers to open up for the featured acts.

Goderich, Carroll said, is a town full of music lovers, and she stressed the house concerts are much more along the lines of a private party than a business.  Donations are accepted to pay for the entertainment and refreshments, but the evening is really about bringing music lovers and music-makers together in a close setting.

“It’s totally for the love of it,” she said.  “We love to share it with other people.  Because we’re new to Goderich we’re trying to get the word out that we’re wanting to get involved.  Because of the talent, caliber, think they are going to like that.”

The response Carroll gets from her performers is always positive – playing unplugged and up close to a rapt audience.

“The vibe?”  Carroll said.  “So many times I say that two or three days later I feel the walls are still ringing.  It’s something where the audience and the performer can feed off each other.”

The advantage of having everyone on the same level, in the same room allows the artists and audience a level of interaction not found in the concert hall, and Carroll said many is the sing-a-long that broke out at a house concert.

“The target audience is anybody who likes listening to music,” she said.  “They don’t have to be a musician, they just have to like music and want to get up close to the people who make it.”

She noted her house concerts are scent-free, so listeners should leave the perfume at home.

In a culture where CDs, radio, television and the Internet can bring instant entertainment, the quaintness of the house concert, Carroll said, brings music back to a fundamentally shared level.

Reservations and donations are required in advance of the in-home shows, and more information can be found at debbiecarroll.com/houseconcerts.