April 18, 2015 Playing with the Dixie Demons at the KW Dixieland Jazz Club
April 19, 2015 Playing with The Dixie Demons at Sticky Fingers in Barrie
June 14, 2015 Playing with The Bourbon Street Buskers at The Willowbank Jazz Festival in Niagara-On-The-Lake Ontario
July 20, 2015 Playing with The Dixie Demons on the Parry Sound Island Queen Sunset Boat Cruise
Last night I had the pleasure of working with Bobby D and the Dixie Cats (old friends Bob DeAngelis, John McLeod, Phil Disera and new friend Lorne Nehring) at the Liberty Grand entertainment complex. The event was a fundraiser for the Assaulted Women’s Help Line, an organization that provides an essential lifeline for women fleeing from abusive relationships.
Today I will be playing with the Dixie Demons at the Royal Canadian Legion in Waterloo and tomorrow I will be playing with the Demons again at Sticky Fingers in Barrie.
I have a number of performances coming up and I hope you can make it to one or more of them.
The first three engagements are with The Dixie Demons. On November 8, 2013 at 9:30 p.m. I will be at The Rex Hotel and Jazz Bar. On November 10, 2013 at 4:30 I will be performing for the Jazz Vespers at Christ Church Deer Park. November 16, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. i will be performing for the The Kitchener-Waterloo Dixieland Jazz Club again with The Dixie Demons.
On December 15, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. I will be performing with Brassackwards at 3030 Dundas West.
Both groups combine a highly entertaining show with some really great musicianship and are well worth listening to!
Here is some information about the campaign. Thanks for reading!
TheJazzBox.ca started with many meetings among musicians and jazz lovers over a year ago, and has since grown to be a vibrant on-line social community and marketing hub with over 40 top-notch musicians (and their groups) on the site.
We are now going the next phase, to make TheJazzBox.ca a world-class site for the jazz community to share and enjoy and we need your help to grow and make TheJazzBox.ca stellar and be part of our ongoing community!
“We need YOU to make this happen.”
We have a passion for this project and passion for adding value to others and our community. Why does this project matter? It’s because this great music and these great musicians deserve to be heard!
Our crowd funding campaign is now launched on RocketHub. Click Here to view the Project. Through this campaign we want to improve our site and offerings and to grow our jazz community. We have worked to make this campaign a success and include some awesome rewards for your support including
– mp3s and CDs
– loaded iPods,
– original jazz photos
– tickets to our Mini Jazz Fest
– dinner with an artist
– private concerts in your home
– study scores
– project funding
– even have a piece composed about you or a family member.
RocketHub is not an investment or charity. It is an exchange: funds from supporters for Goods from us.
It’s a “keep what we raise” funding mechanism: if we don’t reach my financial goal we get to keep what we raise.
We are so proud of the progress we have made solely on a shoestring budget and loads of goodwill. We now offer quality video and news, loads of music (over 650 tracks), and we have been recognized not only in Canada, but as far as Finland and Japan by fans and artists alike.
For more information and updates about this campaign go to our Campaign Page.
I am very excited that Timothy Booth’s new site TheJazzbox.ca will be launching September 15th. The site showcases some great Canadian jazz artists and is well worth a look. You can find more information at the following URL.
http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=92979b4f73abdeab5fa033f38&id=286adbd427&e=700682807e
The launch events at The Rex on Saturday Sept. 15th at 3:30 p.m. and at The Dominion on Queen on Monday, Sept. 17th at 7:30 p.m. promise to be well worth seeing.
I had a great time performing with NOJO at the Markham Jazz Festival Sunday, August 19, 2012. The band was in great form and guest artist Don Byron was at his inventive best. Lots of fun!
At the suggestion of a good friend of mine, I recently posted the last track of my jazz tuba CD (Blues for Brian) on Youtube with some still images taken during the photo shoot for the album cover. I was able to do the whole thing using iMovie including titles and graphics. You can see the results above. I hope you like it!
Patrick Sheridan was in Toronto last weekend to perform with the Hannaford Street Silver Band. He played in two school concerts on Friday, adjudicated a solo competition for young musicians on Friday night, gave a masterclass on Saturday morning and performed once more with the Hannaford Band on Sunday afternoon. I was fortunate enough to be at the Friday evening concert, the Saturday morning master class and the Sunday afternoon concert.
At the master class Patrick spoke at length about “The Breathing Gym”, his approach to proper breathing technique for brass players and, despite the early hour, had us all up out of our seats and enthusiastically learning to relax and breathe properly.
At the Sunday afternoon concert I was totally in awe of Patrick’s astounding technique and musicianship but the thing that really impressed me was his ability to engage the audience with some very funny stories and his willingness to hang out in the lobby and chat with folks during the intermission before heading back on stage to wow once once again.
Thanks to Hannaford for once again bringing a brass musician of the highest calibre to Toronto and for supporting brass music so well.
Thanks to Pascal and jazz.com on radio ARA Luxembourg for playing “Afternoon Tune” from my jazz tuba cd, “Buckhorn Morning”. I had a chance to listen to parts of the show online and heard some great music from a number of artists. Terrific program!
Well I finally got the email that I was waiting for from CDBaby. “Send more CD’s! Buckhorn Morning is out of stock!”
By the time I bought a box and some packing tape and paid the postage from Ontario to Oregon I had spent 17 bucks, and that was sending the CD’s via regular parcel delivery! Kinda cuts in to revenues in a big way. I’m going to have to find a cheaper shipping solution. 🙂