October One Fun

A gig at Tequila Bookworm (512 Queen Street West, Toronto) has fallen into my lap for tomorrow night (10/1) (thanks Steve Ward!); please join the crafty stylings of SCARBOROUGH STREISAND , the music starts at 9pm and admission is free (but we do hope you’ll grace the tip jar with monetary kindness).

“Scabs” is myself, Michael Keith on guitar, and Glen Hall on saxophone. GH won’t be able to join us for this one (the band is doing a three-show run in mid-November), so it may be a duo, or we may invite some guests to join us.

This Friday is my 35th birthday, so feel free to come by with your warm wishes and expensive gifts.

le jam

I got a call out of the blue to host a “jam night”; having never really done that before I said yes (note to budding young musos: if you are free and it doesn’t offend your morals, the answer is always “YES”. That’s how a career is built.).

The jam will be hosted by myself and Mike Bowell (guitar) and Jim Wehmeyer (bass). It’ll be Sunday nights starting October 18, exact time TBA. The venue is TKS in Aurora, ON 265 Edward Street.

We’ll sing and pick anything and everything, so fear not! Come out and join the fun.

More details to come…

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

you can always check the Google Calendar, but here’s what’s up:
Sept 17 – Hot Buttered Soul @ Canyon Creek Burlington
Sept 18 – Hot Buttered Soul @ Alice Fazooli’s Oakville
Sept 20 – Hot Buttered Soul @ private event
Oct 3 – Hot Buttered Soul @ Earl’s Square One, Mississauga
Oct 18 – TKS Jam
Oct 23 – cc3 @ the Avant-Garde Bar in Ottawa
Oct 23 – Ashley Newall Band (cc on drums) @ the Avant-Garde Bar, Ottawa
Oct 25 – TKS jam
Oct 30 – SeeWhySound @ FreeTimes Cafe, Toronto
Nov 1 – TKS jam
Nov 6 – cc3@ LoD, Somewhere There Toronto
Nov 8 – TKS jam
Nov 13>Nov 15 – attending PASIC in Indianapolis (please get in touch if you’ll be there and want to hang, that’s the whole point of going!!!!)
Nov 19 – Scarborough Streisand @ 416 Festival, Tranzac, Toronto
Nov 20 – Scarborough Streisand TBA Ontario
Nov 21 – Scarborough Streisand TBC Kitchener/Waterloo, ON
Nov 28 – Ashley Newall Band @ Kaffe 1870, Wakefield, PQ
Dec 4 – SeeWhySound @ The Gladstone Hotel
Dec 5 – Hot Buttered Soul @ JT Plucker’s Burlington

Also, every Saturday I’m in Toronto, I’ll be running my “Drop-In and Drum!” kids hand drumming hang at 3:30pm, please go to drumlab.blogspot.com for more info and the confirmed schedule.

live online and live tonight!

“improvised roots” went live today at iTunes and other digital retailers, please go check it out and support the cause by purchasing a copy. My sincerest thanks in advance for your efforts.

Tonight in Toronto you can catch me and the boys (aka cc3) doing it right all night at Tequila Bookworm, 512 Queen Street West. Music starts at 9pm, no cover (but please hit the tip jar) and CDs are only $5. TB has great food and drink, and should probably have their front window open as it intends to be a pleasant evening, so you can enjoy us from the wee patio out front too.

FYI, there’s been some shifts in the date calendar: most horribly the Siberian tour with Glen Hall’s quartet was cancelled (the entire jazz festival we were to be playing was cancelled due to a funding pullout), which in turn cancelled the recording we were scheduled to do. Also, for fans of my cover-band, Hot Buttered Soul, a scheduling mixup by the venue has us on the short end of the stick and two of our dates got wiped: Oct3 and Dec4 at the Boston Manor. Fear not, HBS has replaced Oct3 with a new gig at Earl’s at Square One in Mississauga and are still set to rock the house at the Boston Manor on New Year’s Eve. For complete listings of HBS events, go to http://hotbutteredsoul.blogspot.com.

Also of note in the calendar: two (possibly) three upcoming dates with SeeWhySound, Chip Yarwood’s cool roots/reggae/world/folk trio, Sept27 (still tbc), Oct30 and Dec4.

quick updates and a learned lesson

Hi Folks,

Here’s the gig schedule for the next little while:

Sept 12 – cc3 “Improvised Roots” release party + performance @ Tequila Bookworm, Toronto 9pm
Sept 17 – Hot Buttered Soul @ Canyon Creek Burlington
Sept 18 – Hot Buttered Soul @ Alice Fazooli’s Oakville
Sept 20 – Hot Buttered Soul @ private event
Sept 27 – SeeWhySound (TBA)
Oct 3 – Hot Buttered Soul @ Earl’s Square One, Mississauga
Oct 17 – tentative cc3 date (details tba)
Oct 23 – cc3 @ the Avant-Garde Bar in Ottawa
Oct 23 – Ashley Newall Band (cc on drums) @ the Avant-Garde Bar, Ottawa
Oct 30 – SeeWhySound @ FreeTimes Cafe, Toronto
Nov 6 – cc3 “all acoustic super quiet” set @ LoD, Somewhere There Toronto
Nov 13>Nov 15 – attending PASIC in Indianapolis (please get in touch if you’ll be there and want to hang, that’s the whole point of going!!!!)
Nov 19 – Scarborough Streisand @ 416 Festival, Tranzac, Toronto
Nov 20 – Scarborough Streisand TBA Ontario
Nov 21 – Scarborough Streisand TBC Kitchener/Waterloo, ON
Nov 28 – Ashley Newall Band @ Kaffe 1870, Wakefield, PQ
Dec 4 – SeeWhySound @ The Gladstone Hotel

Also, every Saturday I’m in Toronto, I’ll be running my “Drop-In and Drum!” kids hand drumming hang at 3pm, please go to drumlab.blogspot.com for more info and the confirmed schedule.

Now for a cautionary tale: I have no less than 5 email accounts, three personal ones and two for two of my bands (CPZ and Scabs Streisand). Sometimes, an email gets lost in the cracks between all 5 accounts. Yesterday, this happened. I neglected to check my Gmail after 6pm yesterday, and during that time a very important email came in from the west coast. The email was requesting my help for a very specialized situation, not life-or-death, but if I had been the person in need, I would certainly have appreciated the person getting the email. Anyway, I feel like a heel and have no one to blame but myself. If I ever needed a reason to check my iPhone MORE, now I have one.