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Monday, August 8, 2016 - Sunday, August 14, 2016
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Thursday Nights at the Harbour Street Fish Bar
7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
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Featuring Special Guest Appearances
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Thursday, August 11, 2016
Gerry Markman
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Gerry Markman
Gerry began playing guitar at age 12, learning from his sister, Mirel. He remembers the folky influence she had on him and to this day is jokingly quoted as saying: "D, A7 and G, the only chords you'll ever need." Over the next 15 years, Gerry toured and recorded with the Max Band and Dandy Batt. His single, "The Flying Dutchman", became a cult favourite. In 1977 he moved to Toronto to work at the second location of Steve's Music Store and left performing for a while. He was coaxed out of 'retirement' by Bob Segarini and left Steve's Music in 1981 to devote himself entirely to music, playing guitar for Marghie Evans, Pamela Cannon and numerous jobbing gigs, TV shows and sessions. Markman joined the Cameo Blues Band with Malcolm Tomlinson in 1982 and later toured with The Lincolns, opening for the late Robert Palmer. Markman returned to Toronto and played with The Alannah Myles Band, Tom Barlow and the late Richard "Hock" Walsh. On special occasions, Markman has also performed with legends Dan Aykroyd and the late Jeff Healey. His recording credits include Rosenshontz (Its The Truth), Michael Vincent (Home In The Forest), Tapestry (I Need Your Lovin') and Ron Wiseman (Mystical Mood). In 1991, Markman returned to Steve's Music and continued playing with The Gerry Markman Band, The French Connection and Curley Bridges. He led The Ruanne's House Band in Barrie, hosting dozens of Ontario's finest musicians as guests and twice was musical director for the Barrie Music Awards. He became the driving force of the rockin' blues band The Sensations, based out of Orillia, Ontario. Gerry still plays with The Sensations, Malcolm Tomlinson and occasionally the Partland Brothers. He still does sessions and also performs as a solo acoustic artist. Markman recently played with Jimmy Hall, former lead singer of Wet Willie. Markman was profiled in the January 2008 issue of CMT (Canada Music Trades) magazine. Markman is the uncle of the hurdy-gurdy artist Ben Grossman.
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10 Keith Ave. at Highway 26 in Collingwood.
(705) 293-3474
Blues @ the Mews
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Larry Kurtz
L
arry is the founder of Orangeville's highly successful Blues and Jazz Festival, Larry Kurtz is also a craftsman, musician, singer and songwriter; a man of many and varied passions. Somehow, he's good at all of them. Although music took a back seat to more practical concerns. Married the first time at age twenty, a homeowner by twenty-one, Larry didn't return to the harmonica until he was in his mid-thirties. "We started playing out in the shop once in a while, just for fun. Suddenly, we had a band." Trouble and Strife was born. They've come a long way since. Their latest, self-promoted and self-titled blues CD is receiving airplay on 175 radio stations in forty countries. The band is hoping to record a new album this winter. We can thank Larry's wife Norma for switching on the light for his next obsession. "My wife said, 'It's crazy that we keep driving all this way to these blues festivals,' and I thought 'Wouldn't it be good to have one here?'" Starting small, Larry promoted a blues show in Orangeville. "There was a line-up to get in," he says and, with that demand in mind, his vision for the Orangeville Blues and Jazz festival took shape. "I just decided this was something I wanted to accomplish in life," he says. And accomplish it he did. Rapidly growing since its first edition in 2003, the free festival now takes over downtown Orangeville on the first weekend in June, drawing over 21,000 people and a wide range of big name performers. If you've ever had trouble picking a dream to follow, you might take a cue from Larry's answer to the question, why the blues? "I didn't choose the blues, the blues chose me. It's the only thing that comes easy. It was the same with the harmonica, it just seemed natural. If you love something and keep plugging away, you'll attract the right energy.
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Blues @ the Mews Line-up of Guest Artists
August 4th - Mark Sepic
August 11th - Gerry Markman
August 18th - Larry Kurtz
August 25th - Gayle Ackroyd
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September 1st - Roly Platt
September 8th - Steve Ambrose
September 15th - Groove Marmalade
September
22th - Lance Anderson
September
29th - Johnny Max
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October 6th - Ken Losell
October 13th - Louis Lefaive
October 20th - TBA
October
27th - TBA
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Friday, August 12, 2016 MCC Summer Blues Event
333 King Street in downtown Midland, ON
Tickets & Information: 705.527.4420
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Saturday, August 13th from 4:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.
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Doug & Shannon's 24th Annual
Masco Canada
460 Horseshoe Valley Road West
One mile from Horeshoe Resort
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August 20th / 5:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
Lounge 26
19 Keith Avenue (
Hwy 26 West) in Collingwood, Ontario
Call: 705.445.6600
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Friday, September 2nd / 6:30 p.m. until 10:30 p.m.
150 Dunlop Street East, Unit 102 in Barrie, Ontario - Call: 705.735.0035
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2016 Entertainment
September 16th, 17th & 18th
Friday, September 16th...
Forth Annual Boogie Woogie Blues Banquet
Featuring the Hogtown All Stars
Special guest appearances by Jerome Godboo and Cheryl Lescom
Tickets $75.00
Saturday, September 17th...
11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. -
Stonebridge Blvd. Street Shuffle
Soak up the sun and sounds during this high-energy, New Orleans inspired street shuffle on Saturday, September 17th from 11:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. You'll find acts performing along Stonebridge Boulevard for a constant stream of blues, shuffle and dance.
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3:30 - 4:30 - Kim Pollard Band
5:00 - 6:30 - Fathead
7:00 - 8:30 - Soulsville
(The Music Of STAX)
9:00 -10:30 - Powder Blues Band
Sunday, September 18th...
1:00 - 2:30 - Mark "Bird" Stafford's Junior Jam
3:00 - 4:15 - Loco Zydeco
4:45 - 6:00 - Godboogie featuring Jerome Godboo
6:30 - 8:00 - Downchild Blues Band
V.I.P. Tent
Entertainment by
with Wayne Buttery, Gabor Szepesi, Charlie Hinkel & Dennis King
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Friday, September 23rd / 6:30 p.m. until 10:30 p.m.
150 Dunlop Street East, Unit 102 in Barrie, Ontario - Call: 705.735.0035
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September 24th
5:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
Station on the Green
19 Keith Avenue (
Hwy 26 West) in Collingwood, Ontario
Call: 705.445.6600
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