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The Kelowna Folk Club presents Corinna Rose With Leah Dolgoy

Sunday, Nov 22, 2015

House Concert

3027 Lowe Ct, Kelowna, BC

Doors 7:00 pm             Concert 7:30 pm

Banjo wielding songstress Corinna Rose will make your heart flutter and use its beat to start a hoedown. Named after a traditional country-blues song and her great-grandmother, Rose was raised on folk. Rose crafts songs that push the boundaries of the folk world. She captures the warmth joy and darkness of the tradition, yet unabashedly uses crooked rhythms and jazz chords. Her unique banjo style combines light bluegrass picking and finger style techniques. Hailing from Toronto, Rose now calls Montreal home.

Rose has been touring across Canada and the US with autoharpist and dear friend Leah Dolgoy for the past two years. After spending many months at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, Dolgoy has developed an inventive, gentle and melodic autoharp style. Her playing and ethereal harmonies bring a warmth and dynamism to Rose’s songs. Rose and Dolgoy have recorded and released two acoustic live off the floor EPs, entitled The Wharf (2015) and B-Sides (2013). Rose’s song, “Green Mountain State”, co-written with the Rusty Horse Band, won the 2013 grand prize of the John Lennon Song Contest in the folk category. Rose has played over 200 shows, has released four albums and has participated in various festivals across Canada including the Montreal Folk Festival and The Campbell Bay Music Festival. She’s performed alongside artists such as Tim O’Brien (of Hot Rize), Groenland, Peter Katz and Marissa Nadler. She will be recording her second full length album in the fall of 2015.

“Ms. Rose delivers something unexpectedly heartbreaking in the kind of way I had thought only Sufjan Stevens could do with a soft whisper.” – Pamela Fillion, ForgetTheBox

Best of List, 2013 Montreal Fringe Festival Frankie Award Nominee 2014

The Kelowna Folk Club is pleased to present this exquisite duo in a warm and hospitable house concert setting on Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 3027 Lowe Ct, Kelowna, BC V1Y 8L3.  The doors are at 7:00 and the music begins at 7:30 pm.

http://www.corinnarose.com/home

$20.00 tickets are available at ABC Hobby & Games in Kelowna and Mad Hatter Bookstore in West Kelowna (cash only please). General sales start Nov 3 at both of these outlets as well as online at kelownafolkclub.ca. Be sure to join us.

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November Concerts in Kelowna

Upcoming Shows from Wet Ape Productions

Jesse Roper and Hot Knox – Nov. 5th
Big Sugar – Nov. 7th
Rich Aucoin – No. 12th
Bahamas – Nov. 14th
Paper Kites – Nov. 19th
Dan Mangan – Nov. 21st
Harry Manx – Nov. 28th
http://www.wetape.com/events/kelowna/

Other cool upcoming shows:

The Sole Pursuits Live @Fernandospub, Nov. 6th
Hey Rosetta / Yukon Blonde – Nov. 6th at the Vogue, Vancouver
The Motorleague with The Dying Arts, Nov 8th @ Docs
Stomp Records 20 year anniversary with the Brains, Nov. 10th @ Docs
Flub the Duck Live @FernandosPub, Nov. 7th
Sean McCann (Great Big Sea) – Nov. 7th @ Streaming Cafe
The Town Hereos Live @FernandosPub, Nov. 12th
Glen Hansard – Nov. 12th @ Orpheum, Vancouver
The Ashley Hundred Live @FernadosPub, Nov. 13th
Kman and The 45s – Nov 14th @ Docs
Frig Off Live @FernandosPub, Nov. 14th
Dear Rouge, Nov. 19th @ Docs
Daniel Wesley – Nov. 20th @ Habitat
Stephen Fearing – Nov. 20th, Kelowna Folk Club House Concert
Corrina Rose – Nov. 22nd, Kelowna Folk Club House Concert
Jordon Welbourne – Reach Out 2015 Live @FernandosPub, Nov. 24th
Aviator Shades Live @FernandosPub, Nov. 27th
Zappa Plays Zappa – Nov. 29th @ Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver

On the Road: Touring & Training Workshop for Aspiring & Emerging Artists

The BC Touring Council (BCTC), in partnership with the BC Arts Council, Presents:
On the Road: Touring & Training Workshop for Aspiring & Emerging Artists

Nov 9 & 10th 2015 – Kelowna Community Theatre and Rotary Centre for the Arts

For dance, theatre music, spoken word, performance artists wanting to break into new touring markets and get some face to face with varied people and facets of this touring industry.

Sessions led by a group of accomplished artists, agents and presenters on topics such as tour readiness, scheduling, touring by discipline, booking, contracts, marketing, tour finances and management, production and technical. Learn about Contact Events, Showcasing and Pitch or Perform sessions. A limited number of travel subsidies are available.

Become a BCTC member and register FREE. Anyone who registers before October 28 will be entered into a draw for a FREE Pacific Contact 2016 registration (value of $450+)  April 1 to 3, 2016. In its 40th year, Pacific Contact 2016  is the BC Touring Council’s annual tradeshow and booking conference for the performing arts.

http://bctouring.org/touring-training-initiative/workshops

Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/events/1051748311516111/

Let’s Build a House – Rock Creek Benefit concert, Nov. 14th in Vancouver

Since cancelling the Ponderosa Music Festival this year due to the wildfires burning in and around the festival grounds in Rock Creek, Kris and Kia have been hard at work planning an event to not only remedy that Ponderosa-sized hole in your heart, but also to give back to the community and people who were rocked so hard by the disaster.
Mark your calendar. We’re throwing a fundraiser on Saturday, November 14, at the Imperial in Vancouver. It’s called “Let’s Build A House” because that’s what we’re going to help do. Our goal is to raise $10,000 to donate to Habitat for Humanity, who will in turn gather building materials to construct a new house next spring for one of the families in Rock Creek who lost their home and everything they own in the fire. This family of five (mom, dad, three teenage sons) was one of the hardest hit.
The event will be a more intimate spin on Ponderosa Festival, with two stages, a silent auction, merch table, and six live acts throughout the night. The lineup includes instrumental post-rockers Dirty Spells, electro-dance dad Mark Mills, world music-maestros Kutapira, art rocker Andrew Judah, the DJ/ive percussion sounds of La GrooveOlucion (El Garzita of Tropidelica and Daniel Druiz of BESTiE), and Ponderosa 2014 fan-favourites the Gay Nineties. We’ll also be showing video by our good pals at Brasstacks Films, who have been documenting the festival and the jarring aftermath of the fire. And of course there will be drinks, dancing, non-stop good times with a big great group of people, and infinite five-fives from us both!
Doors will open at 8 pm and admission is by donation ($20 recommended). Can’t attend and still want to support the cause? No problem. Visit this link to donate: http://letsbuildahouse.eventbrite.ca
More info and event details are here on the FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/440064356197953/