April 14, 2010

Welcome to the Bragg Creek Performing Arts Newsletter with information on our upcoming concerts, Bragg Creek Festival and our 30th season ... 2010 - 2011.

Lorne Elliott - Saturday, April 17, 2010
Final Spotlight Series Concert in 2009-2010
This is a Spotlight Series performance. Seating is at tables and an appetizer, main course and dessert are available for purchase. Menu details are available below with photos on our web site.

Lorne started performing in 1974 as a folk musician in East Coast Canada. At the same time he kept writing fiction as well as songs, monologues and one-liners. The outcome of such a training is a very special show of comedy and music, totally original, entertaining, up-lifting and foolish enough to make everybody laugh. Along with his unique and wacky performance style, it is the timelessness of his material, joined with keen observations of today's trends that make Lorne Elliott's work so special.

Lorne Elliott has performed his one-man show in theatres, universities and clubs. He opened concerts for Rodney Dangerfield in New York City and Jay Leno in Montreal. He has made regular appearances at the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival since it started in 1986: each time his segments were selected for TV Specials, thanks to their universal quality. In Canada and the U.S. he has appeared on numerous talk shows and Variety shows.

The menu for this show includes:

• Appetizer - Vegetable Samosas, Spicy Sausage, Onion Chutney & Artichoke - $5
• Entree - Butter Chicken, Basmati Rice, Mixed Bean Salad & Naan Bread - $10
• Dessert - Buttercup Bakery's famous Lemon Meringue Pie - $5

This show is almost sold out. If you want to attend, don't delay. Tickets and more information on our web site or call 403-949-4114.

Luke Doucet and the White Falcon, May 1, 2010
Concert Change for our final Main Series concert
Paul Quarrington, Canadian author, filmmaker, playwright, songwriter, lead singer and guitarist for Porkbelly Futures, died on January 21, 2010. Porkbelly Futures is taking a touring break and will not be available for our May 1, 2010 concert. We have booked Luke Doucet and the White Falcon for the May 1, 2010 concert.

Canadian singer/songwriter Luke Doucet is a difficult figure to pin down. On the one hand, he is an acclaimed singer, songwriter, and guitarist whose songs sound like a prairie-bred and countrified Elliott Smith; on the other, he spent several years as the leader of the spacy neo-psych rockers Veal, Vancouver's answer to the Flaming Lips.

A proud and vocal member of Canada's exploding indie music scene, Doucet also pays the bills as a studio musician and producer for decidedly non-indie acts like Sarah McLachlan and Chantal Kreviazuk. Doucet was born and raised in Manitoba, where he initially planned to become a lawyer before the guitar became his primary obsession. He moved to Vancouver and formed Veal in the mid-'90s, when bands such as Zumpano and Cub were making the coastal city Canada's primary indie pop mecca.

Performing with Luke will be his wife Melissa McClelland of whom the Globe and Mail said: “unforgettable... a coolly expressive singer, a gorgeously gritty lyricist, and a vivid painter of pop noir.”

See our web site for more information and tickets. 

Bragg Creek Festival
Returns May 28, 29 and 30, 2010 ... A Season's Worth of Music in 3 Days
The third annual Bragg Creek Festival is ready to roll. We need your support to make it a success We have a great artist lineup for the 2010 Festival including:

• MG3 - Montreal Guitar Trio
• Amy Bishop
• Calum Graham
• Chris Sandvoss
• Elizabeth Shepherd Trio
• Nathan Rogers
• Steve Pineo
• Rod Thomas Squance and Abbas Janmohamed

You can check out the tentative schedule for the third Bragg Creek Festival on the Festival web site. Tickets are now available.

In 2010, Friday Night of the Bragg Creek Festival will be devoted to artists who are under 19 but are already superb musicians, singers and song writers. We're calling it YoUthtopia. You can get more details on the YoUthtopia page on the Bragg Creek Festival web site. Tickets for Youthtopia are $15. Tickets are available from the artists or online. Come out and support these young performers! All proceeds from the ticket sales go to the Performers and to support youth programs at Bragg Creek Centre.

2010 - 2011 Lineup - Our 30th Season
Artists for Next Season
Here are the artists and dates for our 2010 - 2011 season:

• Marc Atkinson Electric Project - Main Series - October 2, 2010
• Mary Lou Fallis with Peter Tiefenbach - Dinner Series - November 6, 2010
• Delhi 2 Dublin - Main Series - November 27, 2010
• Paul Rumbolt - Dinner Series - February 6, 2011, plus Matinee Performance
• Tentative Bragg Creek Festival - March 4, 5 & 6, 2011
• Suzie Vinnick and Rick Fines - Main Series - April 2, 2011
• Dala - Main Series - May 7, 2011, plus Matinee Performance
• Joel Plaskett - Main Series - May 28, 2011

In 2010 - 2011 we will have two Matinee Performances. These will be one set performances in the afternoon, at a reduced ticket price. Matinee performances may be appealing to people who cannot attend in the evening or would like a shortened performance.

We are changing the name of our Spotlight Series to the Dinner Series to clarify that Dinner is available at these shows.

Season Tickets for 2010 - 2011
Build Your Own Season Ticket
Season Tickets will be a bit different in 2010 - 2011. Instead of us packaging Main and Spotlight Series, you get to build your own package. Pick the shows you want to see or are able to attend ... or pick all of them. The more tickets you buy, the greater the discount.

 More details will be available on our web site soon and in the next issue of this newsletter.

Now ... Print Your Tickets at Home
Try our new ticket system
Our new ticket system at tix.com lets you buy your tickets online and print them on your home printer. Of course, you can still order tickets on our ticket hotline at 403-949-4114 or buy them in person at Spirits West.

Country Music Comes Back to Bragg Creek
A New Country Series
Performing Arts is supporting the Bragg Creek Community Association's presentation of country music concerts.

We are currently finishing the contracting for the first two artist. The dates are Friday June 25, 2010 and Tuesday November 2, 2010. The details will be available on the web site as soon as we receive the signed contracts.

Details and ticket information are available on the Bragg Creek Country Web Site.

Open Mike at the Boardwalk Cafe
More Music in Bragg Creek
Bragg Creek is welcoming an Open-Mike event to the Boardwalk Cafe. Hosted by Chris Sandvoss, the next Open-Mike will be April 21st from 7-10pm. All ages and abilities welcome for those who wish to share their music with a friendly and supportive audience. The house band is The Waltzing Matildas ( Chris Sandvoss guitar/fiddle, Tim Jeffery dobro/guitar, Beth Sandvoss cello, Jamie Newsom bass ). The Boardwalk Sessions will be every second Wednesday unless otherwise noted. Call Chris at 403 949 4194 for details.

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